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1 day ago | insidedefense.com | Nick Wilson

General Dynamics has yet to receive supplemental shipbuilding money approved by recent continuing resolutions, while the long-delayed awards for 10 block VI Virginia-class submarines and five build II Columbia-class vessels still appear distant, company executives said today during their 2025 first-quarter earnings call.

1 day ago | insidedefense.com | Theresa Maher

Maritime defense contractor Saronic today unveiled the two newest additions to its autonomous surface vessel fleet. The 40-foot and 60-foot ASVs -- Mirage and Cipher -- mark an expansion of the company’s small uncrewed surface vessel lineup -- the largest of which until now was the 24-foot Corsair. “The two new models will be designed to support a broad range of mission requirements for U.S. and allied maritime forces,” as well as a variety of commercial applications, the company said.

2 days ago | insidedefense.com | Tony Bertuca

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, whom a former spokesman recently described as having "the month from hell," returned to his previous employer Fox News today to allege that media reports about his role in sharing sensitive military plans on unsecure Signal group chats are the work of "disgruntled employees" who have been fired for leaking to the press. “Disgruntled former employees are peddling things to try to save their ass, and ultimately, that is not going to work,” Hegseth said.

3 days ago | insidedefense.com | Theresa Maher

Doug Matty, former director of the Army's AI Task Force, is now the Defense Department's new Chief Digital and AI Officer, Inside Defense has confirmed. Matty previously served as Army Reserve Brig. Gen. Matthew Easley’s deputy director when Army Futures Command first stood up the artificial intelligence task force in 2018 to be the service’s arm in support of DOD’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center. He was elevated to the director role in September 2020, where he served until December 2022.

3 days ago | insidedefense.com | Abby Shepherd |Nick Wilson

Last week, President Trump's executive order marked the start of a new push to rejuvenate the domestic maritime industry, but achieving the order's ambitions will require Congress to play a significant role, lawmakers and analysts told Inside Defense this week.