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John T. Seward

John T. Seward

jseward@washingtontimes.com

John T. Seward is a Defense and National Security Correspondent at The Washington Times, delivering insightful reporting on key decision-making in Washington and new defense technologies for Threat Status.John previously worked at Sinclair’s The National Desk before helping stand-up the non-profit newsroom NOTUS as one of its first class of newsroom fellows.
John graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point with a B.S. in Philosophy and served seven years as a U.S. Army artillery officer before leaving the service to become a journalist. In 2021 he graduated from American University with his M.A. in Journalism and Public Affairs.He can be reached at JohnS.13 on Signal and at jseward@washingtontimes.com.

Articles by John T. Seward

US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, second left, and US Secretary of state Marco Rubio, right, at the beginning of talks with the Ukrainian delegation at the US Permanent Mission in Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

Rubio hails progress in talks on Ukraine-Russia peace plan in Switzerland

Top U.S. and Ukrainian officials, under pressure from the White House to meet a Thanksgiving Day deadline for a peace deal with Russia, said Sunday that they had made significant progress in a round of talks in Switzerland that Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the most productive in "a very long time."

November 23, 2025
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth looks at a drone while touring a display of multi-domain autonomous systems in the Pentagon courtyard in Arlington, Va., on Wednesday, July 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson) **FILE**

Pentagon says Biden-era Replicator drone program now under new special unit

The secretive "Replicator" drone program, established by the Biden administration within the Defense Department's leading tech-industry collaboration unit to accelerate the acquisition and deployment of unmanned systems to U.S. warfighters, has a new home under the U.S. Special Operations Command.

November 18, 2025
Posters for the proposed Golden Dome for America missile defense shield are displayed before an event with President Donald Trump in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, Monday, May 12, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) ** FILE **

Golden Dome funding lags as industry partners line up

The head of President Trump's Golden Dome missile defense program gave a classified briefing to the Senate Armed Services Committee last week that described the secretive architecture of the project, The Washington Times has learned.

October 28, 2025