So happy to talk with the phenomenal @sirenspod.bsky.social about something near and dear to my heart: the Pentagon press corps.

"‘Fuck it. Finally clean those bastards out. Get rid of them. I’ll take the hit for a year.’” @valerieinsinna.bsky.social wrote the edgiest piece on the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program you'll ever read. breakingdefense.com/2025/10/clea...

SCOOP: Gen. Ken Wilsbach will be your new Air Force Chief of Staff, multiple sources tell @valerieinsinna.bsky.social and I. Announcement expected in the next few days. breakingdefense.com/2025/09/wils...

SCOOP: Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Anduril and General Atomics are under contract for conceptual designs for a Collaborative Combat Aircraft. Lockheed is under contract to provide "common control" for the autonomous, carrier based combat drone: breakingdefense.com/2025/09/excl...

SCOOP: Lockheed Martin is out of the Navy's F/A-XX fighter program, leaving Boeing and Northrop as the remaining competitors: breakingdefense.com/2025/03/excl...

"What the fuck is going on?" Confusion is sweeping the defense industry as an Army email circulates that seemingly halts further contracting activity. Story by Ashley Roque, @aaronmehta.bsky.social and myself: breakingdefense.com/2025/01/what...

NEW: In exclusive interview, SASC chairman Sen. Roger Wicker says he'd to see $100B/year for the next two years in the reconciliation bill, which could help fund US Iron Dome, NGAD sixth-gen fighter, and shipbuilding programs: breakingdefense.com/2025/01/excl...

Current status: disengaging from today’s political sideshow (the Hegseth nomination hearing) by eating Taco Bell and watching an old 1998 Raw episode where Stone Cold Steve Austin infiltrates a hospital to attack an injured Vince McMahon

At Pete Hegseth hearing to be defense secretary, Sen. Jack Reed, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, states that he does not believe Hegseth to be qualified for the top DoD leadership post.

Spotlighting this scoop from my colleague Michael Marrow: Turns out China could beat the U.S. to fielding a sixth gen fighter, the Air Force’s acquisition chief says. breakingdefense.com/2025/01/chin...

The only Pentagon I recognize from this day forward:

I like Bluesky because I definitely see fewer posts about how women aren’t fulfilling their destinies unless they have 3+ kids, and that’s pretty rad. But also this place is really boring and it feels like no one interacts with each other (at least in the defense/aerospace sector).

New House Armed Services GOP subcommittee chair announcements: Cyber IT and Innovation: Bacon (incumbent) Intel/Spec Ops: Bergman --> Jackson Readiness: Waltz --> Bergman Milpers: Banks --> Fallon Seapower: Kelly (incumbent) Stratfor: Lamborn --> DesJarlais TacAirLand: Wittman (incumbent)

going into 2025 with this energy

MY FAVORITE BOYS

I am begging for a rock album. BEGGING.

Buying fireworks so when Santa arrives we can give him Dave Batista’s entrance

Me when I’m acting extremely macabre about very normal, mundane things

PLEASE. THIS MAN IS NOT LISTENING TO ARTEMAS

He’s literally so beautiful

Filed a scoop on a next-gen fighter, made cookies for my husband and now am sitting down to watch the CR vote before making another batch of cookies. Nara Smith could NEVER

SCOOP: A new Air Force analysis supports the development of a manned sixth-gen fighter known as Next Generation Air Dominance, amid questions about the program's future. breakingdefense.com/2024/12/excl...

Multitasking watching anime and the CR fight on the House floor the way George Washington intended

Hey look we made a show: Coming in 2025, it's The Break Out. Every week, we'll bring you a short (5 minutes or so), entertaining roundup of things you need to know in the world of defense. I updog'd @leeferran.bsky.social in our first test show. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WeD...

I’m sorry whaaaaaaat

Congress, amirite?

Love my dear friends at military dot com but if an editor did this to me they would wake up with a horse head in their bed one morning

if you offer dracula a little bit of your blood for free he'll probably respect you more

Waiting for the CR to drop like

This sucks. Yuki Tsunoda has been carrying the Red Bull junior team on his back for two years, beating all of his teammates handily and showing real maturity on track. He's fast, has proven he can handle pressure and has a fun personality that plays well on social media.

Wait for it…

I can’t help it, I like chaos 💕

Pentagon holiday cheer means a gingerbread Pentagon building, complete with Santa!

Happy Friday the 13th, Taylor Swift's birthday, St. Lucia's day and my birthday to all who celebrate. My today be bright, lucky, filled with song and devoid of evil spirits.

Exclusive: President-elect Donald Trump didn’t get to fly on a new Air Force One during his first term. He likely won’t get to fly on a new presidential plane in his second term either.

Congress dropping the NDAA one December weekend and then dropping the continuing resolution the next is, in fact, the war on Christmas

Why are holiday themed ads not really Christmas-y anymore? I'm not a boomer, I'm not trying to start "war on Christmas" discourse but I just saw a Target holiday ad that featured the song "Pure Imagination" and that's not a holiday song folks.

it's been like a week since my last missile story and I didn't want to leave you hanging (I have been working on this for months)

I think about that Miyazaki clip a lot, about how his visceral response was that what he was being shown was both inhuman and inhumane—an affront to both the artist and to human dignity.

shot/chaser, I guess…

someone with photoshop skills please make me an unhinged banner for my profile with NGAD, my cat Vlad the Impaler, Lewis Hamilton, Vessel from Sleep Token, Rhea Ripley, with the Capitol in the background or something idk, we've got to set the tone for my personal brand

*shania twain voice* let's go girls