U.S. Special Operations Command has tapped Anduril to help the organization develop and deploy autonomy software that can coordinate the operations of a variety of drones and other robotic platforms on the battlefield, the company is set to announce Wednesday.
Under the three-year, $86 million deal, the contractor will serve as SOCOM’s “Mission Autonomy Systems Integration Partner,” according to a press release.
So-called “collaborative autonomy” capabilities are on the command’s technology wish list.
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Four additional B-2A Spirit stealth bombers were deployed to Diego Garcia Air Force Base, bringing the total number of these bombers at the base to seven.
This increase is significant, as it constitutes a third of the US Air Force’s B-2 fleet, which is normally based at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, reports Abu Saleh.
This reinforcement follows the previous deployment of three B-2 aircraft to Diego Garcia on March 24, 2025, and coincides with US military operations against Houthi rebels in Yemen.
The Defense Information Systems Agency is preparing to introduce a new platform in one of its overseas cloud environments that will allow users to test a generative artificial intelligence tool on classified networks, according to a defense official.
Pending accreditation, the chatbot will be deployed to U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and allow users to experiment with genAI models on the Secure Internet Protocol Router (SIPRNet), Jeff Marshall, acting director of DISA’s Hosting and Compute Center, said during a webinar broadcast Tuesday by Federal News Network.
On March 25th, we celebrate Medal of Honor Day. This day honors the courage of America’s service members.
History of MoH Day
A service member is awarded the Medal of Honor for “conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty.” It’s given to those who have performed acts of bravery that go above and beyond what is expected.
President Abraham Lincoln awarded the first Medals of Honor on March 25th, 1863. Since then, 3,518 medals have been awarded to 3,507 individuals. Most earn the medal posthumously during wartime.
A new Army pilot program is asking junior officers to address quality of life issues driving their peers out of the service.
In 2020, the Army started using an annual career engagement survey to better understand why its junior officer corps were leaving the service. Now, the Army wants to hear from junior officers themselves with a program modeled off a similar idea used in the Navy.
“Issues they’re going to solve are going to affect not just junior officers but all folks in the Army,” said Maj. Chris Slininger, the current director of AJOC.
Troops on active duty have had the book thrown at them for security breaches far less severe than texting strike plans to a journalist.
Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, has reported that he was inadvertently invited to join a group chat on the Signal messaging app by Michael Waltz, President Donald Trump’s national security advisor, in which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed operational information about planned strikes in Yemen two hours before they happened.
The simple answer is that the Marines make it look effortless – but it’s also more than that.
Body bearers, as the name implies, are U.S. troops specially tasked to carry the remains of their services’ honored dead to their final resting place. For the Marine Corps body bearers at Arlington National Cemetery, it’s an honor they’re willing to put their rest of their lives on hold for. For those Marines charged with holding up the standard of “flawless funerals” it’s kind of a requirement.
The EU’s new defence funding proposals are intended to meet a growing threat posed by a resurgent Russia and US ambivalence towards Europe.
President Donald Trump has nominated Michael Dodd to be assistant secretary of defense for critical technologies — a key role in the Pentagon’s research and engineering directorate.
The nomination was received on Capitol Hill on Monday and referred to the Senate Armed Services Committee for consideration, according to a notice posted on Congress.gov.
North Korean soldiers have played an important role in Russia’s war against Ukraine. Most recently, 12,000 North Korean soldiers helped Russia claw back Ukrainian advances on Russian territory in Kursk. In late February, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called on his military to learn from “real combat experience” — widely seen as a reference to the Russo-Ukrainian War. We asked four experts to identify important lessons that North Korea’s military has been learning from its deployments in support of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Read more below.