Military experts and Pentagon officials are pushing back at proposals from within Donald Trump’s administration that will cripple their ability to prepare for a possible war with China and other adversarial nations.

The U.S. Navy has tapped Lockheed Martin Rotary and Missions Systems to update the MH-60 aircraft, often called the Seahawk. In a release on Thursday, the Pentagon states that the $54 million project is expected to be completed by October 2028.

The Pentagon watchdog will evaluate whether the U.S. military followed an established targeting framework when carrying out attacks on dozens of alleged drug-smuggling boats that have killed nearly 200 people in Latin American waters since early September.

The Defense Department’s inspector general initiated an evaluation into the U.S. Southern Command's protocols when attacking suspected drug boats.

With new DAWG initiative, the DOD is attempting to fix a historically slow-moving, broken acquisition pipeline.

The agreements “accelerate the transformation toward establishing the United States military as an AI-first fighting force,” the Pentagon said.

President Donald Trump said he will send an additional 5,000 troops to Poland, marking the latest twist in the U.S. military’s fast-changing mission in Europe.

The Pentagon is testing artificial intelligence models to see which are most favored by 25 of the department’s “power users,” as the US military races to find alternatives to Anthropic PBC’s Claude, according to a senior defense official.

Trump administration's embrace of cryptocurrency creates an opportunity for the Pentagon to adopt blockchain for defense and national security uses.