About Us

Defense-Aerospace.com has published defense and aerospace news since October 1998.

Giovanni de Briganti is the editor of Defense-Aerospace.com. He founded the site in October 1998, edited and published it for more than twenty-seven years.
He is a Paris-based defense journalist. His reporting has concentrated on European procurement — Rafale export campaigns, the Swiss Air2030 competition, F-35 cost and performance disputes, Franco-German programmes such as MGCS — and on the primary documents behind them: budget submissions, audit findings, contract awards and official statements.

Published work and bylines: Muck Rack
On X: @JoedeBrig
On LinkedIn: Giovanni de Briganti
Editorial contact: editor@defense-aerospace.com

Our Mission

This site exists to make defense and aerospace procurement legible: what is being bought, at what cost, on what schedule, and with what result.
Reporting starts from primary documents — budget submissions, contract awards, audit findings, official statements — because that is where the discrepancies are. Where the reporting draws a conclusion those documents do not state outright, it says so.
Analysis and opinion appear here and are marked as such. Neutrality is not claimed; accuracy is, and errors are corrected in the open.

The archive

For most of its history this site held one of the larger open collections in the field: a searchable database of more than 220,000 items dating back to October 1998. Access was originally hybrid — basic content free, with full news wires, searchable archives and databases by paid subscription. In December 2022 the site was rebuilt and the entire collection was opened to everyone at no charge.
That collection did not come through the 2025 platform migration intact. Restoring it is ongoing, and the editor is doing it himself, alongside current reporting. Material goes back up as it is processed, so the archive grows continuously rather than in scheduled batches.

What the site is now

Free to read. No paywall, no registration, no metering, no subscription tier and no paid API. The earlier site ran a subscription product and a daily brief; neither exists today.
Coverage follows military and aerospace capability from budget request to delivery, built on primary material. Where an article builds on another publication’s reporting, that publication is named and linked.

Editorial standards

  • Every article lists its sources.
  • Where a fact comes from another publication’s original reporting, that publication is named and linked in the text, not only in a source list at the end.
  • Information is not attributed to unnamed “officials” or “industry sources” unless those conversations actually took place.
  • What a manufacturer has confirmed is distinguished from what reporting has inferred.
  • Substantive updates are dated and marked.
  • Corrections are made openly, with a dated note on the article. To report an error, write to editor@defense-aerospace.com.