Tony Capaccio

The plot of A House of Dynamite, the new thriller from Academy Award winner Kathryn Bigelow, hinges on — spoiler alert — US missile defenses failing to knock down a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile headed for Chicago.

The Pentagon said it received an anonymous $130 million donation to pay the military during the US government shutdown, a move the administration might not legally be able to carry out.

The US Army is planning to deploy the Pentagon’s first hypersonic weapon by the end of the year, even though the Defense Department’s own test office said the weapon hasn’t yet proven it would be effective in real-world combat.

A Pentagon review of the AUKUS pact between the US, Australia and the UK is a “brass-tack” evaluation of its affordability and whether the agreement fits with President Donald Trump’s foreign-policy priorities, a Defense Department nominee said.

Boeing Co. will receive a contract valued at as much as $123 million to replace the 14 massive bunker-busters dropped in June on Iran’s nuclear enrichment and processing facilities, according to a budget document and three people familiar with the transaction.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has summoned top military commanders for an unusual meeting early next week, just before the US government might shut down over a funding dispute between President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats.

Space Force General Michael Guetlein, the four-star general leading President Donald Trump’s effort to build the Golden Dome air and space missile defense network, has completed a blueprint for the program, but the Pentagon declined to give any details about its scope or cost.

Air Force officials have told congressional auditors it’s feasible to extend, until 2050, Boeing Co.’s aging Minuteman III nuclear missiles that have been the ground-based leg of the US-nuclear triad arsenal for more than half a century.

The US Army awarded contracts to a partnership of Anduril Industries Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc., and another led by Rivet Industries, to produce competing prototypes of a new combat goggle.

The Pentagon is preparing for its in-house DOGE team to examine almost half a million contracts and grants in a bid to trim waste.

Months after Pakistan used a Chinese-made ultra-long-range missile to shoot down Indian fighters, US Air Force and Navy funding requests show they may soon get their own advanced weapon after eight years of development: the Lockheed Martin Corp. AIM-260.

The Pentagon plans to spend more than $3.5 billion to replenish inventories in the wake of recurring Israel operations, underscoring the costs of maintaining a stepped-up presence in the Middle East.

The Space Force has accepted delivery of RTX Corp.’s $7.6-billion ground control network for the military’s constellation of GPS satellites following years of delay and massive cost overruns.

Lockheed Martin Corp. has delivered all F-35 jets parked at its Forth Worth, Texas plant to the US government as of May 1 after several months of delay due to late software improvements, according to the Pentagon’s program office.

The US Army plans to spend more than $1.3 billion on Patriot missiles for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, and has quietly quadrupled its overall purchase target for the air defense weapon that has proven critical not just for Ukraine but also for US forces in the Middle East.

A Pentagon plan to slash staffing at its weapons testing office threatens the safety and effectiveness of every weapons program it oversees and “will cost service members’ lives and waste taxpayer dollars,” Senator Elizabeth Warren said.

The Pentagon launched a review of a Biden-era pact to develop nuclear-powered submarines with Australia and the UK, as the Trump administration looks to shift the burden to allies and ensure the US’s own supply of warships.

The Air Force has cut in half its request to Congress for its signature F-35s, dealing a blow to Lockheed Martin Corp., the top US defense contractor.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered staff cuts at the congressionally mandated Pentagon office that oversees tests of major weapons systems, to ensure they’re effective and maintainable, before billions of dollars are spent on them.

The Pentagon has developed a draft architecture and plan to implement the proposed “Golden Dome” air and missile defense system, its spokesman said, as questions mount about the Trump administration’s ambitious project.