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Army puts drones front and center in unfunded wishlist
List includes commercial drones for infantry units, plus more counter-drone gear.
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Spy agency ready to launch new vehicle-tracking satellites
After tests go well, NRO director looks to start replacing JSTARS aircraft with orbital sensors.
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Marines see progress with drones, despite flat budgets
However, a program to mount loitering munitions to vehicles faces delays.
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Russia’s election-manipulation efforts aim to undermine Ukraine aid, NSA says
Thanks to AI, “They can have one person cranking out a lot of material.”
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Army aims to equip a division with hand-held counter-drone gear
But one expert said the service may have underestimated just how much that will cost.
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Pentagon eyes Starship, designed for Mars, for military missions somewhat closer to home
After a successful, if abbreviated, third test flight, SpaceX’s reusable mega-rocket might be ready before the U.S. military is.
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US should accelerate hypersonic defenses, NORTHCOM head says
“We can’t pause at all,” Gen. Gregory Guillot told Congress.
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The big AI research DARPA is funding this year
The Defense Department’s key research arm will experiment with ethical chatbots and new robot super pilots.
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Army to launch deep sensing cross-functional team and equip units with experimental tech
The 101st’s Airborne Division’s second brigade will be the first unit to be equipped with new, experimental tech.
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The Pentagon is funding new chip designs for the AI era
A $78 million DARPA program aims to enable super-smart computing in remote battlefield conditions.
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White House sanctions former Israeli intel officer and commercial spyware maker
Move comes after Predator was reportedly used to spy on U.S. lawmakers.
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AFWERX’s private-sector collab program abruptly closes up shop
The program sent military personnel to spend time at tech firms.
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VPN ban is Kremlin’s latest effort to quash dissent
Russian companies are now forbidden to advertise or offer virtual private network services.
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General Atomics’ ‘robot wingman’ makes first flight
The company is in the running to build collaborative combat aircraft for the Air Force.
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The Navy is trying to use quantum computers to task spy satellites
Some problems are coming into focus for the next big leap in computing.
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China is building its own Starlink—even as questions surround Musk's constellation
A recent rocket launch lofted satellites for a Chinese service to mimic SpaceX, which was slammed this weekend by a top U.S. lawmaker.
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Is Russia putting an anti-satellite nuke in space?
A long-ago U.S. test showed the kind of havoc that could wreak in orbit.
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US may cut info-warfare assets as China, Russia expand influence ops
Key psyops units may get squeezed by a Pentagon effort to trim special-operations forces.
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Robot wingmen vs. China: What a think tank’s wargame revealed about a key USAF concept
As the Air Force contemplates a range of price points, the tabletop exercise suggests cheaper is better.
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Chinese hacking operations have entered a far more dangerous phase, US warns
“This is truly an Everything Everywhere, All at Once scenario,” one official said.
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