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Chief of naval operations outlines ‘hedge’ strategy to maintain U.S. dominance
The U.S. is currently incapable of building ships faster than China, so the head of the U.S. Navy is pushing a next-generation doctrine of smarter force packaging and autonomous system integration to sustain American naval dominance globally.
U.S. Army’s nearly $4 billion battlefield communications bet to face its toughest test yet
The U.S. Army's fiscal year budget request, released Tuesday, confirms the Next Generation Command and Control system is its biggest modernization project and a $4 billion bet on becoming the new communications platform for the military's largest force.
Could space-based data centers help power U.S. military missions in the future?
Data centers in space, and perhaps even on the moon, could become crucial to U.S. national security.
If Iran war forces pivot from the Mideast to U.S. oil, all consumers will pay — including Americans
Despite soaring Middle Eastern risk, factors including the tyranny of distance make U.S. and Venezuelan oil unattractive buys for the Asian industrial economies that supply the bulk of the world's manufactured products.
WATCH: NASA fast-tracks nuclear-powered spaceship, aims for interplanetary travel in 2028
The U.S. is developing a nuclear-powered spaceship designed by technology critical to deep-space exploration and national security, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman told The Washington Times in an exclusive interview this week.
Trump says Rep. Swalwell got caught ‘with hands in cookie jar’
Just before embattled Rep. Eric Swalwell said Monday he is resigning, President Trump told The Washington Times that the lawmaker was a "dangerous person" to be serving in Congress.
Conservative group pours $5.5 million into TV ads, activism to boost GOP in midterms
Americans for Prosperity is funneling $5.5 million into a midterm election initiative to promote lawmakers who voted for President Trump's signature One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Ukraine’s home-built strike arsenal carries the war deeper into Russia
From a wartime factory floor to targets deep inside Russia, Ukraine's homegrown drone and missile industry is quietly reshaping the war.
How a Czech company’s $3 million turbojet engine contract blurs line between drones, cruise missiles
A U.S. industrial base built on complex precision weapons and solid rocket motors is starting to look elsewhere as modern conflicts demand high-volume, low-cost tools.
‘Pretty depleted’: Iran conflict drains U.S. munitions as Congress sounds alarm
The Trump administration is expected to meet with defense industry leaders Friday to pressure them to speed production of key munitions amid growing concern from lawmakers about shrinking U.S. missile and rocket stockpiles, sources told The Washington Times.
Republicans unveil bill to block illegal immigrants from becoming armed police
As they struggled to fill their ranks amid a backlash to the blue, some local police departments turned to an unorthodox source: illegal immigrants, including those in the Obama-era DACA program, who have been issued badges and guns and sent into communities.
Newsom’s latest pardon shields attempted murder convict from ICE deportation
California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a pardon Friday to Somboon Phaymany, erasing his 1997 conviction on 10 counts of premeditated attempted murder and effectively shielding him from being deported by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
‘Trading blood for steel’: Army’s new combat philosophy puts autonomous robots on front lines
The Army is investing heavily in a strategy that will team soldiers with autonomous drones on the battlefield, with the goal of leveraging next-generation technology to save American lives, the U.S. Army's chief technology officer said in an exclusive interview.
Inside Ukraine’s drone war: Thunder gods battle Russia’s grinding advance
I'm Guillaume Ptak, Ukraine correspondent for the Washington Times. You are watching exclusive footage from my recent trip with a Ukrainian drone team on the Southeastern Front.
Republicans call on DOJ to probe four blue states for refusing religious opt-out for kids’ vaccines
Rep. Greg Steube is prodding the Justice Department to investigate four Democrat-led states over allegations that they aren't allowing parents to use religious objections to opt out of school vaccine mandates.
Russia trades men for ground; Ukraine answers with deadly drones
In a dusty basement somewhere along Ukraine's southeastern front, Ukrainian team leader Ihor is sitting at a table, staring intently at a laptop. On the screen, there is an aerial view of a barren treeline demarcating two desolate, snow-covered fields. A man is cautiously moving among the leafless trees, an automatic rifle slung over his shoulder.
Inside the high-stakes battle over Space Force advocacy
The Air & Space Forces Association and the Space Force Association, along with their leaders, stressed they believe the organizations can work together to advance American space power. However, sources familiar with the matter described behind-the-scenes dynamics that have at times bordered on acrimony.
Rep. Thomas Massie turns Trump’s jabs at him into campaign cash
Rep. Thomas Massie is still raking in campaign cash -- even as President Trump and his deep-pocketed allies go after him and lift up his chief primary challenger, who has made an early fundraising splash of his own.
‘There are threats in orbit’: Space Force chief sounds alarm over Chinese, Russian space assets
The head of the U.S. Space Force says his job is to "think about worst-case scenarios" when it comes to potential threats in space from America's adversaries, whether they're Russian "nesting doll" satellites or Chinese "grappling arm" tactics that could suddenly become weaponized.
EPA to end mammal testing by 2035, reviving Trump-era goal
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin will commit the agency to ending testing on mammals by 2035, reviving a key goal of the first Trump administration and reversing a Biden-era walkback.