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Several bills slated for markup Wednesday by lawmakers on the House Foreign Affairs Committee include provisions that aim to make American defense products easier, faster, or more enticing for foreign partners to purchase.

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The price tag for the Golden Dome for America could reach $1.2 trillion to develop, deploy and operate over 20 years, according to a new report published Tuesday by the Congressional Budget Office.

The updated cost estimate is based on a “notional” missile defense arc...

Tucked into the Navy’s budget request for fiscal 2027 is a new plan to identify commercially available vessels and “mothership” designs, existing oceanographic survey platforms, and other mature technologies that map the ocean floor, analyze the marine environment, and maximize undersea warfare capabilities.

The Next Generation Oceanographic Survey Ship — T-AGS(X), ...

The Missile Defense Agency is planning to deliver a provisional capability to defend against hypersonic weapons in the near term as it continues development of more advanced systems.

Under a new effort dubbed “Project Maverick,” MDA intends to conduct a flight test of a defensive system to prove the agency’s ability to track and defeat hypersonic missiles in fiscal ...

Much of the work of the Defense Department’s Strategic Capabilities Office is classified, but the secretive organization’s director recently shed light on the capability areas that the SCO is focused on.

The office, which aims to rapidly prototype and transition “game-changing,” high-tech solutions to address near-term challenges, is executing a $1.7 billion budget ...