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Patrick Tucker is technology editor for Defense One. He’s also the author of The Naked Future: What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move? (Current, 2014). Previously, Tucker was deputy editor for The Futurist for nine years. Tucker has written about emerging technology in Slate, The Sun, MIT Technology Review, Wilson Quarterly, The American Legion Magazine, BBC News Magazine, Utne Reader, and elsewhere.

Sea Hunter, a class of unmanned ocean-going vessel gets underway on the Willamette River following a christening ceremony in Portland, Ore., April 7, 2016

Navy Artificial Intelligence

Acting Navy Secretary: We Need More than 355 Ships, and That’s Not Even Counting Robot Vessels

The Navy needs more human-crewed ships…and more unmanned vessels, than previously thought.

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An unarmed Trident II D5 missile launches from the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Nebraska off the coast of California.

Nuclear Congress Defense Budget Navy

A New Nuclear Warhead? STRATCOM Chief Can’t Answer Yes or No

The W93 has been the focus of questions since it appeared in the 2021 budget proposal.

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A completed 3-D scan of a F-16C Fighting Falcon is displayed on a screen as technicians maintain at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, Feb. 11, 2020. Operators looked to recreate the jet using virtual reality

5G Communications

Pentagon Wants To Start Testing New 5G Tech Soon

The Defense Department is about to get serious about evaluating next-gen networking gear.

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Defense Industry Innovation

Will Flying Cars Help the US Beat China? The Air Force Hopes So.

Service officials say giving American manufacturers first-mover advantage is just as important as the military benefits of vertical-lift buses.

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An artist's rendering of the ARES VTOL from Lockheed Martin.

Technology

Will Flying Cars Help the US Beat China? The Air Force Hopes So

Service officials say giving American manufacturers first-mover advantage is just as important as the military benefits of vertical-lift buses.

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An artist's rendering of the ARES VTOL from Lockheed Martin

American Readiness Project Drones

Will Flying Cars Help the US Beat China? The Air Force Hopes So

Service officials say giving American manufacturers first-mover advantage is just as important as the military benefits of vertical-lift buses.

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A U.S. soldier of Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force Afghanistan shakes hand with an Afghan boy during the opening of a school in Bagram, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, March 24, 2008.

Defense Management National Security

Should The U.S. Have a Secretary For Influence Operations?

Two former top special operations officials say their job was too junior and the Pentagon isn’t taking information warfare seriously enough.

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A US soldier of Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force Afghanistan shakes hand with an Afghan boy during the opening of a school in Bagram, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, March 24, 2008.

Influence

Should the US Have a Secretary For Influence Operations?

Two former top special operations officials say their job was too junior and the Pentagon isn’t taking information warfare seriously enough.

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Artificial Intelligence Defense

Pentagon to Adopt Detailed Principles for Using AI

Sources say the list will closely follow an October report from a defense advisory board.

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In this Sept. 4, 2009 file photo, a KZO surveillance drone takes off from the German base in Kunduz, Afghanistan.

Technology Artificial Intelligence

Pentagon to Adopt Detailed Principles for Using AI

Sources say the list will closely follow an October report from a defense advisory board.

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