Army News
4/25/2024
DENVER — Following the Army’s announcement of a rebalance of its aviation portfolio earlier this year, a heavy focus has been the integration of manned and unmanned teaming and working tow…
Army News
4/24/2024
DENVER — When the Army released its 2025 fiscal year budget request in March, it came on the heels of a dramatic shift in its aviation portfolio, including the cancellation of the Future Attack …
Emerging Technologies
4/24/2024
HELSINKI — Swedish defense industrial giant Saab’s U.S. subsidiary is opening an innovation hub in San Diego named Skapa, the company’s president and CEO said in an interview April 2…
Emerging Technologies
4/24/2024
The Defense Department released its share of the fiscal year 2025 president’s budget request March 11. But what does it mean for emerging technologies? Overall, the department’s request fo…
Army News
4/23/2024
ARLINGTON, Virginia — The Army’s mobile counter-drone program is upgrading by downsizing with a new increment that will move the system from two vehicles into a single Stryker armored figh…
Army News
4/22/2024
CAMP PENDLETON, California — During operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. military had the luxury of large bases near and in theater to fly in troops and supplies and could drive large co…
Space
4/19/2024
With an increasing number of commercial satellites, military constellations and all their data flowing through space, government and industry operators said they are looking to artificial intelligence…
Military Service
4/19/2024
Some among us, baseball aficionados all, are aware that the Washington Nationals baseball team will soon celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1924 Washington Senators World Series championship. That…
Navy News
4/18/2024
NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — The first day of the biggest trade show of the year devoted to the Navy coincided with the first solar eclipse seen in the United States since 2017. Since it was only…
Special Operations
4/17/2024
The resumption of V-22 flight operations in March after a three-month pause marked the second time in two years that the Osprey has returned to flight without its special operator, Marine and Navy pil…
Missile Defense
4/16/2024
WASHINGTON, D.C. — While Israel, the United States and other allies defeated nearly all the incoming missiles, rockets and drones Iran launched in an unprecedented attack April 13, the United St…
Budget
4/16/2024
NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — While the Defense Department dialed back some procurement goals in fiscal year 2025 to limbo under the $850 billion bar Congress set in the Fiscal Responsibility Act,…
Emerging Technologies
4/15/2024
SINGAPORE — Swedish contractor Saab recently launched a deployable digital tower designed for air traffic management, which the company believes can also serve a role in the increasingly importa…
Budget
4/15/2024
An independent commission tasked with identifying ways the Defense Department can reform its resourcing practices recently released its final report. Commission officials and experts agreed that imple…
Special Operations
4/12/2024
In addition to U.S. Special Operations Command’s development efforts to optimize the lethality of traditional sniper calibers like the .300 Winchester Magnum or newer .300 and .338 Norma Magnum …
Global Defense Market
4/12/2024
DOHA, Qatar — Belgian defense company John Cockerill has developed a prototype of a sleek, light fighting vehicle that can fire at targets while moving at 70 miles per hour. The Cockerill i-X i…
Global Defense Market
4/12/2024
DOHA, Qatar — Staff Brig. (Sea) Abdulbaqi Al-Ansari, chairman of the DIMDEX trade show in Qatar, was asked at a press conference how many of the country’s neighboring Gulf Cooperation Coun…
Space
4/11/2024
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado — The Space Force and Defense Innovation Unit on April 11 awarded contracts to Rocket Lab and True Anomaly for their upcoming tactically responsive space mission calle…
Space
4/11/2024
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado — The Department of the Air Force is increasing its reliance on space capabilities, but continuing resolutions and other budget limitations are affecting investments i…
Space
4/10/2024
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado — The Space Force’s Space Development Agency will be placing a radio frequency antenna in Norway for its Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, the first in…
Space
4/10/2024
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado — The Defense Department has made major progress on reforming its classification policy for space activities, but it needs the intelligence community to make changes a…
Space
4/10/2024
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado — The Space Force on April 10 released its first Commercial Space Strategy, laying out lines of effort and assessment criteria for effectively building military-i…
Emerging Technologies
4/10/2024
NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — Hypersonix Launch Systems will launch the first of three hypersonic test vehicles by the end of 2024 under the Defense Innovation Unit’s Hypersonic and Hig…
Navy News
4/10/2024
NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — Thousands of service members survived combat injuries in Afghanistan and Iraq because the theaters were small enough and there was enough casualty evacuation and medi…
