John T. Seward is a Defense and National Security Correspondent at The Washington Times, delivering insightful reporting on key decision-making in Washington and new defense technologies for Threat Status.John previously worked at Sinclair’s The National Desk before helping stand-up the non-profit newsroom NOTUS as one of its first class of newsroom fellows. John graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point with a B.S. in Philosophy and served seven years as a U.S. Army artillery officer before leaving the service to become a journalist. In 2021 he graduated from American University with his M.A. in Journalism and Public Affairs.He can be reached at JohnS.13 on Signal and at jseward@washingtontimes.com.
The Pentagon is leveraging its most powerful authorities to put missile production on "wartime footing" now that the U.S. war against Iran has burned through a significant amount of munitions.
The U.S. military's largest branch is left without a top civilian leader or a congressionally confirmed senior officer after the sudden departure of Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll, a move that some of the leader's closest staff said was unexpectedly fast.
Adm. Daryl Caudle, chief of naval operations, says the Iran war and other conflicts in the Middle East are presenting challenges to the Navy in keeping China at bay in the Pacific.
The Department of Defense is leaning into an "AI-first" mentality and developing new artificial intelligence tools, but analysts warn there are still barriers to their broad use in the military.
Rapid technological change is opening major new advantages but also creating long-term planning hurdles for the most sophisticated U.S. military units that are trying to stay ahead of fast-evolving missile and asymmetric threats from adversaries such as Iran, Russia, China and North Korea.
The head of President Trump's ambitious Golden Dome for America project said Tuesday the military has already carried out two secretive tests of the multibillion-dollar missile defense shield, with new technologies and artificial intelligence being incorporated into the developing system.
The future of space-based military operations, the need for quicker replenishment of munitions stockpiles, and President Trump's Golden Dome missile shield are all in the spotlight as top Pentagon officials and defense contractors descend on a conference that opens here Tuesday.
The director of a Russian drone factory was badly wounded and his driver was killed in a car-bombing that rocked a town hundreds of miles from Moscow earlier this week, according to local news reports.
An enemy drone flies overhead with its cameras trained on a collection of cinder block, plywood and shipping container structures that the Pentagon has constructed in the desert in California to mimic an austere war zone urban environment.
A tenuous ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran held Sunday after President Trump announced that negotiators had hammered out a deal to end the conflict and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
The U.S. Army has reported a successful test off the coast of California of the "Hammer of the Gods" -- a powerful electronic signal-scrambler designed to disrupt the navigation and communications equipment used by drones and enemy missiles.
U.S. Army leaders on Wednesday announced the successful demonstration of a more than $3 billion Next Generation Command and Control digital communications prototype, saying the technology's development is on pace to catapult military planning and operations into the future.
A futuristic transformation of American shipbuilding is accelerating, with autonomous surface vessel producer Saronic Technologies announcing plans to construct a multibillion-dollar new shipbuilding port in Brownsville, Texas.
The Pentagon has announced new agreements with three defense companies to mass-produce more affordable air-to-ground cruise missiles, including a set capable of being launched out of the back of cargo planes.
The Trump administration's Golden Dome missile defense project is expanding its secretive network of space-based, missile-detecting satellites with a $1.75 billion dual contract for two defense technology companies, despite concerns on Capitol Hill about ballooning costs.
Ukraine's actual production of Patriot missiles may not start for years, despite President Trump's announcement this week that the country could soon have a license to manufacture the defensive missiles.
Defense companies are racing to build artificial intelligence-powered tools that help warfighters access, understand and capitalize on the mountains of data needed for modern combat.
The military is using ruggedized mobile data centers in extreme environments around the world, and some of the nation's top defense companies are competing to provide them.
American warfighters equipped with the latest technology increasingly find themselves grappling with an endless sea of information -- so much so that the U.S. military needs new tools to cut through and make sense of the data overload.