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The Air Force wants rocket deliveries to anywhere on Earth in under an hour

On May 5 2021, SpaceX was able to successfully land its prototype Starship rocket during a high-altitude test flight. The Air Force believes reusable commercial rockets like the ones SpaceX is ...
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The Pentagon is asking for 3 times as many drones for 2019

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. David Bobbie with 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, replaces the battery for an InstanEye quadcopter during a Quads for Squads training event on ...
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Attack drones at heart of ‘military partnership’ between Russia, Iran

Ukrainian servicemembers pose for a photo holding a reportedly Russian-launched drone on the outskirts of Kyiv on Nov. 30, 2023. (Roman PIlipey/AFP via Getty Images) Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is ...
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Army gets first high-power microwave prototype to counter drone swarms

Share using Native tools ShareCopied to clipboard Share on Mail (Opens in new window) Mail The Epirus Leonidas is a counter-drone and counter-electronics high-power microwave system. (Epirus) ...
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Israel finds an AI system to help fight in cities

Share using Native tools ShareCopied to clipboard Share on Mail (Opens in new window) Mail The Israel Ministry of Defense has chosen Fire Weaver, a networked sensor-to-shooter system, to help ...
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Pentagon tech hub to launch dozens of new projects with FY24 funding

Share using Native tools ShareCopied to clipboard Share on Mail (Opens in new window) Mail From left, Skydio CEO Adam Bry demonstrates the company’s autonomous systems technology for Deputy Defense ...
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Space Force lays out acquisitions reforms in new report

Share using Native tools ShareCopied to clipboard Share on Mail (Opens in new window) Mail An artist’s rendering of the fifth geosynchronous Space Based Infrared System on orbit. (Lockheed Martin) In ...
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Teledyne unveils Rogue 1 exploding drone sought by Marine Corps

Teledyne FLIR Defense’s Rogue 1 drone, to be furnished for the Organic Precision Fires-Light endeavor, is seen here outfitted with its training payload. (Colin Demarest/C4ISRNET) Teledyne FLIR Defense ...
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New report explains how China thinks about information warfare

Share using Native tools ShareCopied to clipboard Share on Mail (Opens in new window) Mail The Chinese military has established a Network Systems Department, responsible for information warfare. (Mark ...
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Space Development Agency awards $1.8 billion to build out satellite communications layer

Share using Native tools ShareCopied to clipboard Share on Mail (Opens in new window) Mail A Lockheed Martin employee works on a model for the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer. (Lockheed ...
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The Air Force’s new ‘glue’ to pull information warfare together

Share using Native tools ShareCopied to clipboard Share on Mail (Opens in new window) Mail As part of how the Air Force’s new information warfare command is building out, it created a new operations ...
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A warning to DoD: Russia advances quicker than expected on AI, battlefield tech

WASHINGTON — The Russian military is more technologically advanced than the U.S. realized and is quickly developing artificial intelligence capabilities to gain battlefield information advantage, an ...