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As warfare becomes engineering, the era of the digital mercenary dawns
The White House revives “privateering for the digital age” by authorizing cyber firms to strike foreign targets.
Pentagon hands Palantir up to $244M in no-bid work
A memo orders agencies to find uses for the company's software, but is mute on the required justifications for sole-source work.
The lasers are coming, but don’t forget training
Army space and missile defense leaders call for more emerging tech—and training—as new systems are developed.
Pentagon to solicit entrants for next giant cloud-service contract vehicle
DISA aims to expand its $9 billion cloud vehicle beyond the big four hyperscalers.
ICBM killer passes two key tests ahead of design review, Lockheed says
The company’s Next Generation Interceptor had an 18-month delay for motor problems.
Local water utilities are under cyber attack. A new group wants to help
The National Rural Water Association and DEF CON Franklin are coordinating the development of a replicable cybersecurity package for water providers.
Rough waters help firm demo ‘expeditionary manufacturing’ aboard warship
Firestorm Labs says it 3D-printed thousands of parts as waves buffeted USS Essex.
Officials hedge SpaceX aircraft-tracking satellite bet with three smaller company contracts
Rocket Labs, STR, and one mystery company are the latest space-based AMTI awardees.
Did AI blow a $450M Army contract decision? Company lawsuit says yes
The Defense Department is increasingly using AI in "high-impact" bid evaluations.
US has too few interceptors to deter war with China, experts say
A new report from Heritage is the latest to sound alarms over the expenditure of munitions in Trump's Iran war.
Can an Alaskan spaceport ease Pentagon’s launch bottleneck?
Rocket Lab says its suborbital launches at Pacific Spaceport Complex-Alaska could lead to national-security ones.
Pentagon counterdrone task force has a new AI-powered marketplace
The platform was developed to make the foreign military sales process more efficient.
Chinese telecoms kept footholds in US despite crackdowns, probe finds
Three state-owned firms retained equipment, data center space, and network ties, including one network that appeared in routes to Salt Typhoon servers.
Attackers are targeting open-source AI just as Big Tech is embracing it
“We're going to be doing this forever,” security pros say, describing a race to find and patch holes in the AI era.
HII’s sea drone business is growing, but revenue is ‘modest,’ CEO says
The company recently booked a yearlong production contract extension for its underwater drone, Lionfish.
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Anthropic confirms its AI breached 3 organizations during testing
Three Claude models were inadvertently given access to the internet during security evaluations, and each model took a different approach to hacking external systems.
Amazon uncovers broad North Korean hacking campaign against open-source software
New findings connect the same Pyongyang-backed group to four compromises dating to 2025, revealing a larger operation than previously known.
