Air Mobility Command is set to deploy a commercial AI platform that supplies a “street-level threat intelligence view” and is custom-designed to help military officials better assess real-time risks — like small drones — anywhere forces deploy, two sources familiar with the work told DefenseScoop.
The Air Force Research Laboratory’s innovation hub, AFWERX, recently awarded Washington, D.C.
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The above picture from 2012 of Norfolk is what I want you to think about.
We talked about the superbly executed Ukrainian attack on Russian bomber bases for most of yesterday’s Midrats, and what keeps coming to mind for me is not the details of that attack, but the stark warning it is giving us.
The threat of drone strikes isn’t a new warning, but in my mind it intersect almost perfectly with the self-inflicted vulnerability of the US Navy’s fleet—its concentration.
When medics with the 173rd Airborne Brigade called for blood supplies to treat combat wounds in a major exercise last month, the flying machines slashed life-saving minutes in transport time and used fewer troops to do it.
“The difference is someone dying and someone not, because four minutes is substantially faster than 20 or 30,” said 1st Sgt. Cyril Clayton, a senior medic with the 173rd Brigade. “As far as risk to the force goes, we’ve cut it from probably five to two.
The Navy’s top civilian leader said he’s looking forward to further cuts to IT contracts and other programs identified by the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency as fit for the chopping block.
Speaking Monday at the AI+Expo hosted by the Special Competitive Studies Project, Navy Secretary John Phelan told attendees that his organization has welcomed the DOGE team at the Pentagon.
The U.S. Army’s 1st Information Operations Command is no more. The active-duty unit shut down in May, after 23 years of operations, citing changing needs in the wider force.
The initial closure was announced last year, as part of the Army Force Structure Transformation plan. 1st Information Operations Command, a part of U.S. Army Cyber Command, focused on cyber warfare and psychological operations. In practice, it worked to help protect other units from information attacks from enemy forces, and served as “red teams” in cyber attack simulations.
US companies working with the US Department of Defense are supposed to be vetted. So why on earth are they also working with China?
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Following Ukraine’s stunning attack over the weekend that used small drones to target and destroy Russia’s strategic bombing aircraft, the U.S. Army is applying big picture observations to its ongoing force transformation.
For starters, leaders believe it is a validation of some of the radical change the service is seeking in how to procure and manage capabilities differently in the future.
“Yesterday was a really good example of just how quickly technology is changing the battlefield.
As electronics shrink in size, weight, and power, cooling solutions are increasingly vital, but what role does AI play?
Lockheed Martin has partnered with Red Hat to expedite the deployment capabilities of swarm autonomy technologies.
Patria has disclosed a strategic partnership with Spanish company GDELS to commence the assembly of ASCOD IFVs in Latvia.