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 ...
Defense One
3 days ago · Defense One provides news, analysis, and ideas about the future of national security to defense and industry leaders, innovative decision-makers, and in...
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.
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 ...
The State of the Marine Corps 2024 - Defense One
Apr 8, 2024 · The Marine Corps is leaning into its transformation into a lighter service of futuristic weapons, advanced logistics, and leaner formations, but it could move even faster if its budget weren’t flat.
Defense Science and Technology - Defense One - Defense One
Dec 11, 2024 · Military bases can use private 5G networks, Pentagon says The Department of Defense said it anticipates most military installations will use commercial 5G solutions but that “under certain ...
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 ...
In race to make artillery shells, US, EU see different results
Nov 27, 2023 · Last March, Army Undersecretary Gabe Camarillo upped the target slightly, announcing plans to produce 24,000 rounds a month by year’s end. The Army hit the target early, then exceeded it ...
Boeing to cut 10% of workers as defense unit loses $2B in 3 months
Oct 11, 2024 · Boeing’s defense business continued bleeding in the third quarter of 2024 as troubled programs, fixed-price contracts, and an inability to reach a deal with thousands of striking machinists ...
Is ‘Big AI’ beating 'small AI'—and what does it mean for the military?
Oct 7, 2024 · The prevailing "bigger-is-better" approach to artificial intelligence—ingest more training data, produce larger models, build bigger data centers—might be undermining the kind of research and ...