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State Department CIO hopes agentic AI can help employees

Tools that could complete tasks across multiple systems would go far beyond the agency’s StateChat chatbot.

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Pentagon CTO wants AI on every desktop in 6 to 9 months

Emil Michael said he's spending up to half his time rethinking DOD's AI-deployment strategy.

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ODNI expected to shrink counterintelligence, counterterror centers

The steps are the latest that several current and former officials say are leaving the U.S. more vulnerable.

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Air Force debuts pilotless cargo flights in the Pacific

The service incorporated remotely-operated flights into its massive REFORPAC exercise as it aims to make cargo flights cheaper.

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Oak Ridge is using diamonds to marry quantum, classical computers

Can the world's hardest mineral help move quantum/classical networks from conceptual pilots to a real capability?

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Iron Man in the Himalayas? China’s PLA embraces exoskeletons

Lightweight frames that run on power tool batteries are no longer just sci-fi.

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Defense One Radio, Ep. 192: Alpine Eagle's Jan-Hendrik Boelens

A Munich-based developer with a new air-to-air counter-drone system shares insights into Europe's growing defense industry and recent lessons from Russia's Ukraine invasion.

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Defense One Radio, Ep. 191: “Primal Intelligence” with Angus Fletcher

A researcher uses his work with U.S. special operations forces to explain a new neuroscientific approach to intuition, imagination, emotion, and common sense.

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The Pentagon plan to Americanize drone warfare

At drone experiment outside Indianapolis, various elements came together to reveal the way forward.

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Defense One Radio, Ep. 190: The Pentagon’s Golden Dome clampdown

Six months into President Trump's return to the White House, here's what we know about the Pentagon's ambitious and controversial missile defense program.

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New Golden Dome details emerge from industry day

Participants, and a Pentagon briefing deck, describe roles for AI, ideas for defensive satellites.

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Will 2026 be military lasers’ breakthrough year?

The Army is ready to award a production contract for vehicle-based directed-energy air defense.