Ideas

China’s nascent railgun is just the tip of its shipboard R&D

Meet the lab working to equip PLAN warships with vast amounts of electrical power.

  • Matt Bruzzese and Peter W. Singer
Threats

Today's D Brief: Marines to Haiti; T-7 delayed again; Pentagon’s battlefield bottlenecks; Exploring the future with fiction; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Science & Tech

National Science Foundation plans $29M for quantum sensing research

  • Alexandra Kelley
Threats

China's Secretive Quest for Heavier Artillery

A now-deleted post reveals a research contract to test-fire 203mm shells, bigger than anything in the U.S. or Chinese arsenal.

  • Ma Xiu and Peter W. Singer
Science & Tech

Why the Navy & Air Force Can't Get Lasers Across the 'Valley of Death'

A new GAO report details missing links in efforts to move directed-energy weapons from the lab to the field.

  • Carten Cordell
Business

Lawmakers Omit R&D Tax Break From 2023 Spending Bill

Company execs have credited the multibillion-dollar tax break with spurring innovation.

  • Marcus Weisgerber
Ideas

Defense One Radio, Ep. 111: Drones in Russia's Ukraine war, and elsewhere

We focus on the latest developments in unmanned aerial systems, from the front lines to a conference in Washington.

  • Ben Watson
Threats

The Army Brief: Healthcare transformation; Recommending military service; Missile defenses; and more...

  • Caitlin M. Kenney
Ideas

NATO Must Ensure Defense and Civilian Industries Work Together

A new innovation accelerator and multinational VC fund should be just the beginning.

  • Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović
Science & Tech

DARPA's '3rd Wave' AI Aims to Compute Uncertainty Along with Accuracy

"Machine learning algorithms do not currently fit well into the modern statistical processing paradigm."

  • Alexandra Kelley
Threats

The Air & Space Brief: ARRW takes flight; Moon mineral race; No word on Malmstrom UFOs; and more

  • Tara Copp
Threats

Another US Hypersonic Missile Hits Mach 5 in Test, Air Force Says

Three different U.S. weapons have now demonstrated successful hypersonic flight.

  • Marcus Weisgerber
Business

Raytheon Technologies Invests in Hypersonic Aircraft Startup Hermeus

It’s the first investment by the aerospace and defense giant’s new venture arm.

  • Marcus Weisgerber
Business

Navy, Microsoft Team Up for R&D—and the Rights to Sell What Emerges

The Seattle-based tech giant will get access to Naval Postgraduate School facilities and the chance to negotiate exclusive rights for technology it helps develop there.

  • Mariam Baksh
Science & Tech

Pentagon Previews New Tech Strategy, Updates Priorities List

The National Defense Science and Technology Strategy won't be out for a while, but Undersecretary Shyu's "Technology Vision for an Era of Competition" offers an early look.

  • Brandi Vincent
Business

Lockheed Loses $225M on Secret Project, Lowers F-35 Production Forecast

Company will press ahead on aeronautics project in hopes of turning it into a profitable production program.

  • Marcus Weisgerber
Ideas

How to Stop Political Division from Eroding Military-Academic Relations

Four ideas.

  • Rikki H. Sargent, Shannon Houck and Lucian Gideon Conway
Science & Tech

US Army, UMD Form AI Partnership

Five-year effort will launch with 18 projects focused on AI, autonomy, and modeling and simulation.

  • Brandi Vincent
Science & Tech

Old-Time Radio: Pentagon’s Electronic-Warfare Gear Is Dated, Experts Say

Lawmakers say more of the EW budget should go to R&D.

  • Patrick Tucker
Ideas

Why the US Military Is Leading the Charge on 5G

It’s not unlike the way that the armed forces invested in radar technology during World War II.

  • John Breeden II
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