Tag: Defense

This New AI Tool Can Help Spot an Imminent Invasion (Patrick Tucker, Defense One)

Just how many jets, cargo planes, and other military vehicles is Russia deploying to the border of Ukraine? Answering that sort of question is...

IISS analysts: Fiscal constraints drive the state of South America’s defense (Amanda Lapo, Juan Pablo Bickel, Defense News)

In 2021, South American militaries remained focused on domestic security threats, with power projection ambitions often limited by significant equipment-availability challenges and funding shortfalls....

US military tech leads: Achieving all-domain decision advantage through JADC2 (Rob Parker and John Stuckey, Defense News)

Militaries have attempted to improve command-and-control capabilities across the fighting force since the dawn of recorded history. Over time, the speed of communications and the...

Almaz-Antey director: Air and space capabilities will decide tomorrow’s conflicts (Yan Novikov, Defense News)

One of the main trends in the development of armed conflicts in the 21st century is the expansion of multidomain battle. Potential future conflicts...

Anduril boss: In an era of strategic competition, we need artificially intelligent systems (Brian Schimpf, Defense News)

With the resurgence of great power competition has come the resurgence of defense technology. Conflict with a near-peer competitor would look nothing like our...

Huntington Ingalls CEO: Prepare for the next generation of national defense innovators (Mike Petters, Defense News)

Nearly a decade ago, the Council on Foreign Relations made a statement that became etched in my mind: that human capital will determine power...

Army to work with satellite radar imagery provider ICEYE (Nathan Strout, Defense News)

The U.S. Army will work with radar satellite imagery provider ICEYE to understand how that technology can be integrated into current and future Army...

U.S. aviation regulator in talks with telecom industry over 5G dispute (David Shepardson, Reuters)

 The Federal Aviation Administration said on Tuesday it is in direct talks with the telecom industry about its aviation safety concerns involving the planned...

Quantum technologies are now part of the military’s future roadmap (Aimee Chanthadavong, ZDNet)

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) previously projected that Australia's emerging quantum technology sector would generate over AU$4 billion in annual revenue and support...

Air Force-Backed Startup Reveals Hypersonic Aircraft Prototype (Marcus Weisgerber, Defense One)

Air Force-backed startup Hermeus rolled out a hypersonic aircraft prototype, firing the drone’s afterburning engine during a ceremony at an Atlanta airport. Air Force-Backed Startup Reveals Hypersonic...

US Army’s hypersonic supervisor talks tech portfolio (Jen Judson, Defense News)

Since Lt. Gen. L. Neil Thurgood took over the U.S. Army’s Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office, he’s overseen the Pentagon’s attempt to build...

Joint Chiefs’ Information Officer: U.S. Is Behind on Information Warfare. AI Can Help (Patrick Tucker, Nextgov)

The United States needs a better strategy and more advanced tools for information operations, Lt. Gen. Dennis Crall, the Joint Staff’s chief information officer, said...

DARPA has caught a Gremlin drone in midair. Can it grab four in a half-hour? (Stephen Losey, Defense News)

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Dynetics proved they can catch an X-61A Gremlin drone in flight and bring it aboard a C-130A mothership. But...

Pentagon tech chief seeks to bolster R&D work with allies (Joe Gould, Defense News)

The Pentagon doesn’t want to innovate alone. Heidi Shyu, the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, said Monday that she has discussed the Pentagon’s...

PLA conducts multiple drills in western plateau after India’s exercises ‘targeting China’ (Liu Xuanzun, Global Times)

The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) revealed it conducted multiple drills in its western plateau over the past week. This comes after the Indian...

Russian Navy forces hunt down enemy sub in drills as NATO warships enter Black Sea (TASS)

The crews of the Black Sea Fleet’s small anti-submarine warfare ships practiced hunting down and eliminating a notional enemy submarine during drills in the...