As advancements in artificial intelligence capabilities proliferate, the Air Force is using a series of capstone events in 2025 to serve as a proving ground for how the technology can be incorporated into future battle management operations.
Led by the 805th Combat Training Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, the biannual capstone allows the service to test new tech and assess their applicability for battle management and tactical command and control.
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Under a new pilot program, sailors, Marines and their dependents in select locations who are new moms will be able to meet with registered nurses for help with unique maternal physical and mental health conditions that some face throughout pregnancy and after giving birth.
Active duty mothers and military spouses are at a greater risk of facing mental health challenges during and after pregnancy because of the realities of military life. A combination of cultural stigmas and barriers to health care can exacerbate the problem, a federal watchdog found.
The Trump administration begins under the shadow of a series of consequential Chinese cyber hacks targeting U.S. critical infrastructure. While incoming officials grapple with long-standing failures to deter China and other adversaries from launching cyberattacks on the U.S. homeland, the Department of Defense (DOD) faces a startling capability gap: The civilian and military professionals responsible for protecting the same type of assets that China compromised receive inadequate training in recognizing, defending against, and recovering from malicious state-sponsored cyber activity.
Italy’s Leonardo and Germany’s Rheinmetall formed a joint venture to deliver a new MBT and IFV to the Italian military.
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The UK Shadow Defence Secretary, James Cartlidge, makes the case for integrated procurement reforms ahead of the government’s SDR.
Arlington National Cemetery is the most venerated final resting ground in the nation, overseen by silent soldiers in immaculate uniforms with ramrod-straight discipline. Across its hundreds of acres in Virginia, they watch over 400,000 graves of U.S. service members dating back to the Civil War, including two presidents, and more than 400 Medal of Honor recipients.
The Marine Corps, gung-ho on technology that can shield its forces from enemy drones, is planning to acquire a slew of AI-enabled systems from Anduril to protect the service’s installations.
Commanders at U.S. military bases are already seeing large numbers of incursions by small unmanned aerial systems. And those types of threats are expected to increase.
“We must continue to capture the lessons being learned in blood on active battlefields from Ukraine to the Middle East.
QinetiQ, in partnership with the Australian DSTG, has showcased a scalable high-power laser optical chain prototype at QLabs in Adelaide.
The EDA concluded the first stage of the Advanced Solutions for Camouflage of Land Systems Using Smart and Adaptive Materials project.