Ashley Roque

6 days ago | breakingdefense.com | Ashley Roque

WASHINGTON — Hours after the US conducted a surprise, significant military operation against three Iranian nuclear sites, top defense officials unveiled the details what the Pentagon called Operation Midnight Hammer, which involved seven B-2 bombers and the first known operational use of a 30,000-pound bunker buster bomb. “This mission was not, has not, been about regime change,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters today.

1 week ago | breakingdefense.com | Ashley Roque |Lee Ferran

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon announced today that it would move responsibility for Greenland to under US Northern Command, a shift that comes amid international concern over the Trump administration’s designs on the Artic islands.

2 weeks ago | breakingdefense.com | Ashley Roque

WASHINGTON — The US Army today will direct commission four tech executives at the rank of Lt. Col., charging them with leading a new Army innovation corps inside the Reserve component, according to a service spokesman. “Detachment 201 is being created to bring in tech innovation executives leaders to help the Army … on broader conceptual things like talent management, how do we bring in tech focused people into the ranks of the military, and then, how do we train them,” Col.

2 weeks ago | breakingdefense.com | Ashley Roque

WASHINGTON — American Rheinmetall and General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) have received the greenlight to continue designing a replacement for the M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle after the US Army approved Milestone B, the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase, according to three sources. The decision to approve the next phase of XM30 was made Wednesday and followed critical design reviews of both companies’ respective plans, two industry sources and an Army source confirmed.

2 weeks ago | breakingdefense.com | Valerie Insinna |Ashley Roque

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth refused to provide information to lawmakers about the Trump administration’s plan to turn a Boeing 747 previously owned by the Qatari royal family into a new Air Force One plane during a congressional panel today, frustrating Democrats who pointed out such details are public for the actual Air Force One program.