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Startup aims to reinvent battlefield medicine for the drone era
High-intensity conflict will require better connected, more defendable field hospitals for longer term care.
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Lawmakers call for more defense biotech research as China pursues breakthroughs
Shelf-stable blood, biological camouflage, and biosensors are just some of the potential innovations.
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Inside Europe's crash effort to create a 'drone wall'
More sensors, more maneuverable, less expensive: How the Ukraine war is shaping the future of drone air defense.
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When China plays orbital hide-and-seek, Maui’s telescopes give the US an edge
In an interview, Space Force’s Saltzman reveals what’s next for the key sensor site.
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How the rapid pace of AI connects to China’s threats toward Taiwan
A hearing Wednesday explored why Taiwanese chips are more prized than ever.
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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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The Pentagon’s new startup focus is pushing established companies to try new strategies
Older firms are finding ways to partner with tomorrow’s defense stars.
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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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Drone boats, new landing craft get Army Pacific tryouts
The service is looking for better ways to protect its waterborne forces.
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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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Ukraine’s milestone shows drones prevent defeat, but don’t secure victory
Drone innovation is speeding up, but war has not followed. Is this the future?
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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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DIU leader exits, leaving behind a blueprint for faster tech
Doug Beck submitted his resignation Friday.
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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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How the Marines’ attack drone team is defining UAV warfare
A competition to find the Corps’ best operators begins this fall.
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