Defense Department

The Defense Department has named a Silicon Valley veteran to fast-track the development of artificial-intelligence capabilities to be used by U.S. forces from the Pentagon to the battlefield, the agency said.…

The aerospace giant’s defense business made profits of $1.5 billion last year as its jetliner unit lost $6.5 billion, and challenges persist with its 737 MAX and 787 Dreamliner commercial jet programs. Now, the plane maker has appointed a…

Trucking company Yellow Corp. agreed to pay $6.8 million to settle a federal claim that the company overcharged the Defense Department by millions of dollars over several years by…

Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces websites and online services of two state-owned banks were disrupted by suspected cyberattacks on Tuesday, government and bank officials have said. The country’s defense ministry said in an…

Rising wages and fuel expenses are exacerbating defense companies’ challenge of controlling costs for weapons and systems to fit the Pentagon’s budget.The U.S. fiscal 2022 defense budget request of $715 billion assumed inflation of 2.2%…

WASHINGTON—President Biden on Wednesday expanded the National Security Agency’s role in protecting the U.S. government’s most sensitive computer networks, issuing a directive intended…

The Defense Department is expected to name the Defense Intelligence Agency as its lead agency for “open-source” intelligence, according to U.S. officials, highlighting the growing importance of unclassified information drawn from social…

Intel Corp. INTC 2.35% said it would provide commercial foundry services in the first phase of a broader Defense Department program that aims to build up domestic…

Chip maker GlobalFoundries Inc. is adopting a new logo and rethinking its marketing approach at a time when a prolonged supply shortage in its industry is hampering production of consumer products from cars to mobile…

The director of a Pentagon unit that works with technology companies withdrew his nomination to become the Defense Department’s undersecretary for acquisition due to an inspector general’s investigation into his…