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The Navy’s dynamic sub-hunting duo
Future operations will lean on manned-unmanned platforms—MQ-4C Triton and Boeing’s P-8A—and a single digital dashboard.
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F-47 will have 70% better combat radius than F-22, Air Force says
Infographic says service plans to buy at least 185 of the sixth-gen fighter.
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Golden Dome push sets stage for telecom battle over spectrum access
The White House’s project to beef up domestic missile defense could lead to a regulatory and legal fight over radio frequencies.
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Make big things small and small things big: SOCOM’s gear wishlist
As special operations forces prepare to take on a wider set of missions, their tech needs are growing more ambitious.
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Army leaders clash with Connecticut lawmaker on future of Black Hawk helicopter
The service’s transformation plan is raising questions from Congress.
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Chilling effects: What one Army unit learned about cold-weather drone warfare
Frozen propellers and short-lived batteries are just some of the challenges these grunts faced during training in Europe.
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Air Force begins ground testing for CCA program
The service has picked Beale Air Force Base in California as the CCA base.
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Ospreys won’t return to full flight operations until 2026
The program office expects upgraded gearboxes to begin arriving in January.
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The Army has rolled out a generative AI workspace to improve daily operations
And because those tools guzzle cloud compute, the service is also looking at ways to cut costs and maintain efficiency.
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Microsoft’s AI offering approved for all Defense operations
Azure OpenAI is now available for the Defense Department at all government data classification levels.
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Space Force plans to put a multisatellite ‘carrier’ into orbit
Gravitics gets an up-to-$60 million contract to build a satellite that can spit out other satellites as needed.
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Boeing wins Air Force’s next-gen fighter contract
The company beat out Lockheed to build NGAD, which has been named the F-47.
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SecDef’s software memo causing ‘angst,' defense official says
But that just shows how much the buy-it-faster directive was needed, the Pentagon's acting weapons chief said.
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This AI startup wants to give federal workers a taste of the intel community
Using AI that learns from images and video, Danti’s platform puts the power of an intel analyst at the fingertips of anyone with a .mil or .gov email address.
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As space becomes more crowded, Space Force turns to AI
The newest service wants to understand where automation can augment—or even replace—humans in monitoring space for threats.
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Space Force sets up team to sort out support for ‘Iron Dome’—that is, ‘Golden Dome’
The service will be “central” to the effort to build a next-gen missile shield, Gen. Saltzman says.
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Pentagon plans for unified digital access tools across military this year
The Defense Information Systems Agency is working on a streamlined identity solution that spans the military departments.
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Drones are the next chapter in US-India’s defense partnership
Trump-Modi meeting produces an agreement to expand industry cooperation, production in the Indo-Pacific.
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America’s ‘Iron Dome’ is going to need a lot more sensors: NORTHCOM
But a key part of the sensor integration could be done in less than a year with proper funding, the leader of U.S. Northern Command told lawmakers.
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