The Autonomous Decontamination System, or ADS, would scrub vehicles, critical infrastructure and key terrain while allowing ...

The United States is quietly rewriting the rules of small arms, betting that a radically different rifle and machine gun will decide future firefights. Instead of tweaking the familiar M4 and M249, ...

Soldiers assigned to 10th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, conduct live-fire ...

A nonpartisan government watchdog is calling on the Department of Defense to update its testing policies so U.S. troops can acquire weapons at a quicker scale. The Government Accountability Office ...

U.S. defense startup Castelion announced on Friday it will integrate its affordable, long-range, hypersonic strike weapons with operational Army and Navy platforms. Under the recently signed contract ...

The Army announced plans Monday to spend $750 million per year on a new initiative to bring Silicon Valley-style entrepreneurial speed to weapons development, particularly drone and anti-drone ...

The article reviews 27 military weapons systems that failed due to cost overruns, engineering flaws or poor combat performance. Failed programs like the F-35, Littoral Combat Ship and USS Zumwalt ...

Stay on top of what’s happening in the Bay Area with essential Bay Area news stories, sent to your inbox every weekday. The Bay Bay Area-raised host Ericka Cruz Guevarra brings you context and ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Large defense companies have "conned" the U.S. military into buying expensive equipment when cheaper commercial options would have been available, U.S. Army Secretary Dan ...

On a foggy September day in 1950, most Bay Area residents were going about their daily lives, headed to work or school. The newspapers were full of headlines about the Korean War — no one suspected ...