Meet the Air Force’s secretive long-range drone that flies for days
Jul 2, 2024 · The U.S. Air Force is getting closer to realizing its vision of low-cost surveillance drones with an autonomous drone that can fly for more than three straight days.
Inside the Marine Corps’ first-ever littoral regiment
Oct 6, 2024 · MARINE CORPS BASE HAWAII—"Hold right, clear left.”. Four Marines in helmets and flak jackets are stacked outside a rusty metal building covered in faux brick and wood. The first enters the ...
How Trump may shake up DOD: an insider’s view - Defense One
Nov 7, 2024 · Few people, if any, have a better window into Donald Trump’s plans for the Pentagon than Christopher Miller, the final acting defense secretary of Trump’s first term and architect of the ...
The Pentagon is already testing tomorrow’s AI-powered swarm …
Jan 22, 2024 · The United States isn’t the only country making new uses of autonomy. While the one-way attack drones that Houthi forces are firing at ships in the Red Sea are crude, earlier this month they ...
Threats and National Security News - Defense One
Jan 16, 2025 · News and analysis of global and U.S. national security. US has ‘a lot of work to do’ on network defenses, departing cyber czar says
How the Air Force is preparing for the new administration
Dec 11, 2024 · The Air Force recently delivered its new force design concept to Congress, which aims to be a framework for the service to adapt to varying funding levels and changing threats. While few details ...
New AI tool for air defense takes on advanced missiles and drone …
Dec 2, 2024 · A new AI tool from GDIT that quickly fuses data from multiple air-defense sensors could transform how militaries defend against emerging aerial threats such as hypersonic missiles and drone swarms.
High-Powered microwave weapon may have just passed a critical …
Jan 31, 2024 · The long-envisioned idea of using directed energy for air defense may have just crossed an important threshold. In a three-week series of tests run with the Air Force Research Lab, the ...
Army puts new unit loaded with cutting-edge tech to the test
Aug 21, 2024 · To overcome the delays, the Army came up with a “transforming-in-contact” fielding strategy, in which the service rapidly fields small numbers but wide varieties of new tech to three selected ...
New AI-powered strike drone shows how quickly battlefield …
Oct 10, 2024 · Small drones have been changing modern warfare at least since 2015, when Russia and Ukraine began to use them to great effect for rapid targeting.The latest addition is a strike-and-intelligence ...