AINonline
• Charles Alcock
Amentum is sharpening its focus in the UK by positioning its engineering and defense support capabilities around sovereign capability and logistics needs as defense objectives evolve. The move underscores how sustainment and logistics roles are being rebalanced in response to changing operational and policy priorities.
AINonline
• Charles Alcock
By AINonline: European investment in sovereign capability targets new drones.
Reuters
• Gianluca Lo Nostro, Leo Marchandon
By Reuters: Airbus said on Thursday it had signed a multi-year agreement with Iliad-owned Scaleway to provide cloud infrastructure for sensitive industrial and defence applications, supporting the deployment of AI tools developed with French startup Mistral.
Bloomberg
• Hannah Miller
By Bloomberg: The New York Times refused to let its reporters testify in front of a federal grand jury after they were subpoenaed by the Trump administration over a story about security issues with an Air Force One plane donated by Qatar.
The Hill
• Filip Timotija
By The Hill: The Pentagon barred the release of a watchdog report on the F-35 program, highlighting rising costs and low readiness within the expensive military spending project.
DefenseNews.com
• Michael Scanlon
By DefenseNews.com: The U.S. Air Force is turning to cruise missiles it can buy by the thousand, cheap enough to shoot many for less than it once cost to shoot one.
SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
By SpaceNews.com: WASHINGTON — Gen. Chance Saltzman in his final public address as chief of the U.S. Space Force warned that a conflict extending into orbit would expose the satellites of every nation, arguing that the best way to deter such a war is to build military forces capable of fighting and prevailing in space.
Air & Space Forces Mag
Aviation Week
Breaking Defense
• Michael Marrow
By Breaking Defense: “It wasn’t just an AMRAAM that came off,” Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach told Breaking Defense. “It was tracking the target.”.
Reuters
• Alexander Dziadosz, David Lewis, Reade Levinson
