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Lockheed Martin is partnering with Google Public Sector to integrate Google’s generative AI technologies into its AI Factory.

Leonardo DRS raised the lower end of its FY25 revenue outlook, after registering an 18% revenue growth in the third quarter (Q3) to $960m.

The U.S. Army is still investing in tanks. In fact, it is requesting $723.5 million in its fiscal year 2026 budget to build and develop the next Abrams upgrade: the M1E3.
That isn’t exactly what many expected to see in the wake of drone warfare’s rise. After all, even advanced Western tanks are taking losses in Ukraine. Hundreds of videos of tank turrets being blasted skyward from top-attack munitions and FPV drone strikes have sparked a growing debate about whether manned, tracked armor still has a place on the battlefield.

Across academia, government, and Silicon Valley, on social media, and in leading journals, intellectuals and political leaders are openly debating what comes after liberalism. Yet inside the military profession, this conversation is either ignored or waved away with half-measures, critiques of Samuel P. Huntington, and calls for more civil-military engagement. What’s missing is a serious reckoning with how a post-liberal political order, should one ever arise, could reshape the military profession itself.

A new footage has shown an U.S. Navy F-18E Super Hornet fighter appearing to score a simulated gun kill in an engagement with a British F-35B, as part of Dissimilar Air Combat Training during joint exercises between the two countries. The F-35B was operating from the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales in the Pacific, after the warship was deployed there as part of Operation Highmast to test the British Royal Navy’s ability to project power and sustain a carrier strike group in the far abroad.

Soldiers with the 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, will not be replaced when they return home, possibly marking the ebb of the U.S. military’s rush to shore up NATO’s eastern flank that began just prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
About 700 soldiers with the unit have been deployed to Germany, Romania, and Poland, according to the New York Times.
Despite the move, officials with U.S. Army Europe and Africa said “This is not an American withdrawal from Europe or a signal of lessened commitment to NATO and Article 5.

Lockheed Martin announced Wednesday that it is teaming up with Google Public Sector to make the tech giant’s generative artificial intelligence applications available to employees for a range of use cases.
The tools will be incorporated into the Lockheed Martin AI Factory, the company’s internal ecosystem for providing computing support, data and software for personnel developing artificial intelligence solutions. The deal includes integration of Google Gemini, a family of large multimodal AI models that the defense contractor will be able to leverage across workflows.

The National Guard is developing a “quick reaction force” of troops trained in crowd control and civil disturbance that can be ready to deploy to U.S. cities by January, according to a leaked memo viewed by Task & Purpose.
All 50 states, Puerto Rico and Guam will have their own quick reaction force, or QRF. The National Guard Bureau memos show that most states will have 500 troops assigned to these units, except for those with smaller populations like Delaware, which will have 250 troops in its QRF, Alaska with 350, and Guam with 100 troops. The Washington, D.C.

In 2024, Jonathan Ping and Joel Odota wrote “Will China Intervene Directly to Protect its Investments in Africa?,” where they argued that instability in countries China makes economic investments in have pushed Beijing to take on an increased security role across the continent. A year later, we asked them to revisit their arguments.

The British Army will operate an expanded fleet of M270A2 launchers, which will remain in service until 2050.