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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 »
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 »
