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Wisconsin-based Oshkosh Defense, a mobility integrator, and California-based Grid Aero, a company developing autonomous modular payload aircraft, have partnered to bring Grid Aero’s technology into production.
Under the partnership, the companies will work on manufacturability, production... Read More »
The U.S. Army recently awarded Lockheed Martin an agreement to advance prototype development and conduct testing and evaluation of the Future Interceptor to assess system performance against established operational requirements.
The Future Interceptor is a next-generation capability intended to... Read More »
Anduril, an American defense technology company, announced recently it will join Qualcomm to produce a new product line dedicated to rebuilding American computer manufacturing.
The companies said the line, BlueChip, will develop American-built computing hardware for America’s most critical... Read More »
The U.S. Army announced it has joined up with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) to study how to better transport bulk ammonia in order to better understand and mitigate community hazards.
The study, the Ammonia Port Preparedness and Emergency... Read More »
The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan’s Unmanned Air Warfare Center recently successfully tested an unmanned aerial refueler MQ-25A Stingray more than 2,100 miles away.
The Stingray was located at a Boeing facility in Illinois while the ship was in the Pacific Ocean. The crew used its... Read More »
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) joined the other intelligence agencies across the globe to issue a joint Cybersecurity Advisory warning about a China-based company enabling threat actors to target critical infrastructure sectors worldwide.
According to the warning,... Read More »
The U.S. Navy said it has established the Robotic and Autonomous Systems Warfighting Development Center (RASWDC) to forward the development, operational integration and employment of robotic and autonomous systems across the maritime domain.
In a joint announcement from the Secretary of the... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Defense and defense technology company Lockheed Martin recently signed a framework agreement to expand production capacity of the AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile (JATM), next generation air-to-air missiles.
The agreement allows Lockheed Martin and the munitions... Read More »
The Department of Defense’s Office of the Assistant Secretary of War for Industrial Base Policy, in partnership with the Economic Defense Unit, have invested a $450 million redeemable preferred equity investment in the Elmet Group through the Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment program.... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is seeking innovative artificial intelligence approaches to help identify biological threats in complex environmental data.
The Ready, Set...ID the Biothreat, an AI-Assisted Algorithmic Biodetection Prize... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Defense, referred to by the Trump administration as the U.S. Department of War, announced the first advanced nuclear Micro Modular Reactor (MMR) at a Naval Weapons Station would happen in Indiana no later than September 2028.
The planned installation of the MMR at NWS... Read More »
A test flight that allowed an aircraft to navigate stretches of the ocean without relying on the same GPS civilians use to move through traffic is the latest advance in aviation, officials said.
The Defense Innovation Unit announced it had successfully tested MagNav, the unit’s magnetic... Read More »
The Department of the Army’s Janus Program, in partnership with the Department of War Innovation Unit, recently selected five nuclear energy vendors, awarding up to a collective $2.2 billion to own, construct and operate nuclear microreactors on military installations.
The first five initial... Read More »
According to a report from the Government Accountability Office, the U.S. Navy’s backlog of submarine maintenance is costing taxpayers and affecting Navy readiness.
House Report 118-529 required the GAO to assess the readiness and availability of the Navy’s attack submarine fleet. In... Read More »
A new advisory from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency outlines how organizations can strengthen detection, response and protections in information technology (IT), cloud and operational technology (OT) environments.
The advisory, A Tale of Two SOCs: Insights From Two Red Team... Read More »
Violent crime decreased 9.3 percent from 2024 to 2025, according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program, the largest year-to-year decline since FBI estimates began in 1936.
Analysis was published on the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer. The report includes detailed data tables on more than 13... Read More »
Virginia-based Northrop Grumman, an aerospace and defense technology company, and Florida-based Aeronix, an advanced secure communication, networking, and surveillance technologies provider, recently created a multimillion-dollar strategic partnership to accelerate the development of advanced... Read More »
A collaboration of several key technology companies recently showcased how commercial off-the-shelf technologies can be combined with AI to make detecting and tracking unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) more accessible.
The collaboration between Lockheed Martin, Verizon, NVIDIA, Keysight... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded multiple contracts to support department-wide access to the Counter-Unmanned Aircraft System.
The awards will provide DHS Components with a pathway to acquire C0UAS hardware, software and services that will be tailored to mission needs... Read More »
The U.S. Department of War’s Office of Strategic Capital announced the condition loan commitment of up to $820 million to establish high-volume domestic manufacturing capacity for drone components.
Performance Drone Works was given the loan commitment in order to expand domestic manufacturing... Read More »
A new report from U.S. Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) details how the Trump administration has weaponized the nation’s counterterrorism infrastructure and left the country less prepared to respond to terrorist threats both domestic and foreign.
The Peters Report found that the current administration... Read More »
Members of the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security and the House Select Committee on China participated in a closed-door, member-level war game last week to test AI-enabled cyber threats, infrastructure resilience and homeland security implications.
The exercise was designed to look at... Read More »
DARPA recently joined the U.S. Air Force to do in-air testing of an F-16 fighter jet using an artificial intelligence (AI) agent to autonomously control its flight.
The milestone advances the technological infrastructure that will enable rapid, scalable combat AI development across the joint... Read More »
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said a study found that Texas gets an economic boost of nearly $148.8 billion from U.S. military installations in his state.
The study analyzed the economic impact of the population and employees directly affiliated with military installations in Texas, including... Read More »
The Marine Corps recently launched a service-level organization responsible for integrating, standardizing, and institutionalizing training for Group 1 and Group 2 small unmanned aircraft systems and counter-small unmanned aircraft systems. It is assigned under Marine Air Ground Task Force Training... Read More »
Virginia-based defense company Northrop Grumman and Mississippi-based Camgian, a software development company, recently entered into a strategic collaboration to advance Camgian’s innovative artificial intelligence platform.
The Reactor AI platform will be used to enhance command and fire... Read More »
The Office of the Assistant Secretary of War for Industrial Base Policy recently announced the launch of an Investment Intelligence Center interactive public website.
The Intelligence Center provides a centralized, interactive dashboard for users to explore the Defense Department’s work... Read More »
The Office of Strategic Capital (OSC) recently provided Energy Fuels, a Denver-based critical mineral company, with a $725 million conditional loan commitment to scale the domestic processing of rare earth elements.
The loan, along with private investment, will support a new, state-of-the-art,... Read More »
The FBI said in a public service announcement that cyber criminals are using traffic distribution systems to gain access to victim networks for financial scams.
Traffic distribution systems, or TDS, is technology that is used to route internet traffic visitors to different destinations after... Read More »
The U.S. National Science Foundation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have developed a research and development program to catalyze breakthroughs in artificial intelligence for national security. The agencies worked in close collaboration with the Center for AI Standards... Read More »
The 2026 Search and Rescue Exercise (SAREX) was held in San Antonio on May 18 to 21. The annual exercise focuses on disaster response preparedness for search and rescue organizations and helps improve interagency coordination between state and federal partners.
This year, there were more than... Read More »
According to a new report released by CrowdStrike, North Korean adversaries (Democratic People's Republic of Korea or DPRK) stole billions in digital assets in 2025 while industrializing cybercrime with AI-powered deception.
The CrowdStrike 2026 Financial Services Threat Landscape Report found... Read More »
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) modernized its financial management systems, but the department’s cost and schedule estimates weren’t always reliable, a U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) study found, and its guidance and plans weren’t consistent.
GAO added DHS to the... Read More »
The Connecticut National Guard is hosting the 12th annual Cyber Yankee regional cyber training exercise at Camp Nett. The event began May 4 and concludes Friday.
The event trains military and utility company cyber experts on cyber threat responses to threats targeting critical infrastructure.... Read More »
The Joint Interagency Task Force 401 recently selected the five installations that will participate in the directed-energy counter-unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) pilot program included in the Fiscal Year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act.
The installations are located in Arizona,... Read More »
