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Space Force Eyes Orbiting 3D Printers, Satellite Tow Trucks
Instead of lifting heavier satellites into space, new technologies might expand their abilities on orbit.
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Can AI Detect Disinformation? A New Special Operations Program May Find Out
Air Force, U.S. Special Operations Command fund year-long effort to train a neural net to rank credibility and sort news from misinformation.
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US Army To Dissolve Rapid Equipping Force, Asymmetric Warfare Group
It’s part of the service’s shift from counterinsurgency to near-peer fights, but some observers are concerned.
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Boots on The Moon Are Going to Have to Wait, Space Force General Says
NASA’s astronaut program is the quickest way to space for military personnel.
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DOD Pours Millions of Dollars into Print-on-Demand Drugs
Four years after DARPA sought a better way to bring medicine to the battlefield, the technology may assuage broader concerns about foreign supply chains.
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Study: Sleeping in Shifts More Likely To Lead to Neurological Disorders
Breakthroughs in fluid dynamics are revealing new clues about how odd hours affect the removal of toxins in the brain.
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Inside the Army’s Fearless, Messy, Networked Warfare Experiment
Big steps reveal plenty about the bigger ones to come — including the need for battlefield coders.
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Exclusive: Interview with Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger
Watch Defense One's interview on building the future force, racism in the ranks, integrating women, and working with Congress.
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The US Military’s Latest Wearables Can Detect Illness Two Days Before You Get Sick
Some 400 troops are testing the devices, trained on nearly a quarter million cases to detect COVID and a whole lot more.
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Analysis: How Trump’s TikTok Deal Helps China
The deal doesn’t really address data or privacy concerns. It does help regimes attack U.S. companies.
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Guam Becomes a Living Laboratory for Pentagon’s ‘Connect-Everything’ Experiments
US INDOPACOM and the Air Force are testing new networked warfare solutions in the region right now.
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Air Force to Try In-Flight Software Update
The demonstration would show how the service’s DevSecOps initiative can deliver updates to warfighters in real time.
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Defense Intel Head: We ‘Did What We Were Supposed To’ With COVID Warning
DIA chief hints that the public doesn’t yet know just what the military knew about the coronavirus.
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France, Israel, S. Korea, Japan, Others Join Pentagon’s AI Partnership
13 countries took part in DoD’s two-day dialogue about the future of responsible
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The Virtual Tools That Built the Air Force’s New Fighter Prototype
“Digital twinning” is coming to a battlefield near you.
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Revealed: US Air Force Has Secretly Built and Flown a New Fighter Jet
The new digital tools that designed the full-scale flight demonstrator could herald a sea change in weapons acquisition.
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The Air Force’s ‘Connect Everything’ Project Just Had a Big Success
The simulated cruise missile intercept harnessed widely dispersed systems — all supervised by tablets in a flight-line hangar.
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New Pentagon Initiative Aims to Help Allies, Contractors Work Together on AI
New tools are planned to help various militaries and defense companies cooperate and interoperate on artificial intelligence.
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Neurotoxins Are A Rising Threat. Here’s How the Military Will Detect Them
As Alexey Navalny recovers, a new spray promises far faster detection of these deadly chemicals.
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