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The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) said the construction of Pantex Plant’s High Explosives Science and Engineering (HESE) facility has been completed
The new facility consolidates 15 aging facilities, which will strengthen U.S. nuclear security... Read More »
Project QuiltWorks, a tech industry coalition, recently launched to assess, prioritize and continuously remediate production code vulnerabilities that frontier artificial intelligence models are uncovering.
Project QuiltWorks uses the CrowdStrike Falcon platform with remediation input from... Read More »
The U.S. Army’s proposed $253 billion fiscal year 2027 budget includes increases for operations, procurement, research and personnel.
The budget proposal includes a 28.7 percent discretionary increase in procurement funding. This includes a $3.1 billion request to modernize the Army’s... Read More »
In conjunction with the Defense Innovation Unit, the U.S. Department of the Air Force announced it has selected three companies to potentially develop and operate a microreactor on a DAF installation.
The move is part of the department’s Advanced Nuclear Power for Installations initiative.... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Defense, referred to as the U.S. Department of War by the Trump administration, and the Federal Aviation Administration said they have completed a safety assessment of a high-energy laser counter-drone system that validates safety controls that pose no undue risk to passenger... Read More »
The U.S. Department of War said antisubmarine warfare training, Exercise Sea Dragon 2026, was successfully concluded at Anderson Air Force Base in Guam recently.
The exercise saw two Navy P-8A Poseidon aircraft assigned to Patrol and Reconnaissance Squadrons 4 and 45 were joined by a... Read More »
According to a new report by the Government Accountability Office, a shortage of IT professionals in the face of growing need for a talented cyber workforce is one of the federal government’s most important challenges.
But a dashboard created by the Office of Personnel Management to help... Read More »
The Los Alamos National Laboratory recently appointed Charles Nakhleh as deputy laboratory director for weapons, effective April 1.
"Throughout his career, Charlie has exemplified the integrity, rigor and sense of purpose that define Los Alamos, and the lab's leadership team and I firmly... Read More »
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently transitioned to the U.S. Army an autonomous flight system. DARPA transitioned an experimental, fly-by-wire H-60Mx Black Hawk, equipped with the DARPA-funded Sikorsky MATRIX autonomy suite to the Army’s Project Manager for Utility... Read More »
Texas-based Bell Textron, an aerospace and defense company, recently completed the first AH-1Z and UH-1Y aircraft upgrades under the U.S. Marine Corps’ Structural and Power Improvements for NextGen Effects (SPINE) program.
The program is part of the H-1 program’s modernization plan to... Read More »
A new analysis of the U.S. space sector finds that the U.S. space industrial base has not kept pace with industry growth, and that the space supply chain is approaching an inflection point, risking national security, civil and commercial space programs.
The report, Strengthening America’s... Read More »
RTX’s Raytheon announced recently it had completed a 26,000-square-foot expansion of its Redstone Raytheon Missile Integration Facility near Huntsville, Ala.
The $115 million investment will increase the facility’s integration and delivery capacity by more than 50 percent and will grow the... Read More »
Texas-based Bell Textron, an aerospace and defense company, recently completed the critical design review stage of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) SPeed and Runway INdependent Technologies (SPRINT) X-Plane program and received an X-Plane designation.
The designation... Read More »
The Joint Interagency Task Force 401 announced it has published guidelines to counter drone technology and protect privacy.
The “Counter-UAS Operations: Safeguarding Freedoms and Preserving Privacy” report provides a comprehensive guide to the sensor technologies used to detect and identify... Read More »
Legislation that would authorize programs strengthening weather research and forecasting at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has passed out of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.
The Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation reauthorization... Read More »
The U.S. Space Force announced it would be sending participants to the 45th Cobra Gold for the first time.
According to the U.S. Department of War, Cobra Gold is a joint military exercise led by the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and the Royal Thai Armed Forces. The exercise is designed to... Read More »
A Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program aims to develop catalysts and advanced manufacturing processes to convert lignin into value-added chemicals and materials.
Lignin is an energy-dense, but difficult-to-process, molecule that gives plants their structure. It can be... Read More »
A new report from exploit intelligence company VulnCheck separates real-world exploitation trends and attacker behavior from theoretical ones.
The report, the 2026 VulnCheck Exploit Intelligence Report (VEIR), offers a first-of-its-kind analysis of those trends, along with an inaugural list of... Read More »
Cybersecurity platform Astelia announced it has raised $35 million in funding to use artificial intelligence to expose real risks to organizations.
Company officials said Astelia uses a deep analysis of clients’ real environments via AI to map its network topology, segmentation and security... Read More »
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will host the DARPA Lift Challenge from Aug. 2-9 at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio. The public can attend for free.
The challenge is a prize competition to incentivize the... Read More »
The integration of CrowdStrike Falcon Shield with the Qualtrics Platform will bring greater visibility and automated protections to customers, the companies stated.
The new integration connects the two products to provide organizations with real-time visibility and automated protections for... Read More »
A new Nozomi Networks Labs OT & IoT Security Report finds that 70 percent of global ransomware activity is targeted against English-speaking countries.
The company annually leverages their network of wireless monitoring sensors, inbound telemetry, partnerships, threat intelligence and other... Read More »
The Air Force Research Laboratory recently awarded Raytheon, a Virginia-based defense solutions company, a contract to develop a domestic production capability for thin film lithium niobate (TFLN) wafers.
TFLN is a material used in artificial intelligence and computing technologies, data... Read More »
In an update on the nuclear modernization efforts at Minto Air Force Base in Minot, ND., officials said upgrades at the base will build upon the nearly $1 billion in annual economic benefit the base brings to the region.
U.S. Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND) joined Major Gen. Colin Connor, director of... Read More »
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) will hold a series of virtual town hall meetings to gather stakeholder input on the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act (CIRCIA( of 2022 rulemaking.
The meeting, scheduled to begin March 9, are in response to... Read More »
The watchdog office for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) launched an audit Feb. 4 into the department’s data practices, including those used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in response to serious concerns about potential data privacy abuses and the misuse of sensitive... Read More »
A new report from the VIPRE Security Group finds that cybercriminals are using trust and urgency to continue to ensnare victims in fraud schemes.
The report, Q4 2025 Email Threat Trends Report, looked at 1.5 billion emails and 500,000 spam messages to identify the trends in security threats for... Read More »
U.S. Department of Defense recently invited 25 vendors to compete in phase one of the Drone Dominance Program.
The program is an acquisition reform effort designed to rapidly field low cost, unmanned one-way attack drones at scale as part of strengthening the arsenal.
"Drone dominance is a... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Office of Health Security held a two-part New World Screwworm simulation exercise in January to strengthen national readiness and improve coordination for emerging animal and public health threats.
The New World Screwworm is a parasite that infests... Read More »
Lockheed Martin announced it had signed an agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense to quadruple its production of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptors from 96 to 400 per year.
The announcement builds on the first-of-its-kind agreement signed between Lockheed and... Read More »
Security control testing company Scythe and AI runtime assurance company Starseer announced a strategic partnership recently that would help organizations defend themselves against AI-driven cyber-attacks.
The companies said the partnership will combine their spheres of expertise in order to... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Defense’s Joint Inter-Agency Task Force 401 (JIATF-401) recently released updated guidance for counter-unmanned aerial systems (UAS) operations.
The guidance streamlines and consolidates existing policies for detecting and mitigating UAS under the authority of 10 U.S.... Read More »
PG&E Corporation joined Lockheed Martin, Salesforce, and Wells Fargo recently in announcing the launch of Emberpoint LLC, a next-generation wildfire solution.
Officials said Emberpoint will help first responders detect, prevent and fight wildfires, using artificial intelligence, autonomous... Read More »
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently released its initial list of product categories for technologies that use post-quantum cryptography standards.
The list identifies hardware and software categories that currently support or are expected to support-post quantum... Read More »
Ninety-one percent of registered voters think the United States should negotiate a new agreement with Russia to either maintain current limits on nuclear weapons or further reduce both nations’ arsenals. The current New START nuclear limitations treaty expires on Feb. 5.
The United States and... Read More »
