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Tomorrow’s soldiers may breach minefields with robots made from decades-old APCs
In a flash, the uncrewed Vietnam-era armored personnel carrier flung a cable of explosives the length of a football field—then detonated it in a blast that cleared an eight-yard lane for troops to follow. Thursday’s successful test of an…
The plan to keep B-52s flying is getting even pricier
DAYTON, Ohio—The Air Force’s complex effort to put new engines and radars on its 1960s-era B-52 Stratofortresses is running billions of dollars over budget, according to service officials. The service wants to upgrade the…
The D Brief: More US forces to Mideast; Russia sub sunk?; US leaves Niger base; Wanted: cyber…
US adds forces to Mideast posture. On Friday, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group to replace the Theodore Roosevelt strike group in CENTCOM’s area of responsibility. (TR deployed from its San…
Meet the Pentagon’s first-ever cyber policy chief
The Senate on Thursday confirmed Michael Sulmeyer to be assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy at the Pentagon, the first individual to hold the position.Sulmeyer has served as the principal cyber advisor to the secretary of the…
New NSA tool aims to automate cyber-defense tests
The NSA has a new AI-powered tool to help vendors to the intelligence community test their cyber defenses.The Autonomous Penetration Testing platform aims to replace much of the manual labor involved in searching for…
Germany vows continued Pacific presence to ‘protect the international order’
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii—A lower-than-expected defense budget for 2025 won’t affect Germany’s military presence in the Indo-Pacific region “in any way,” and will not stop the country from meeting its pledge to spend 2% of its gross domestic…
The US is helping the Philippines modernize its military
MANILA, Philippines—A new “convergence” of Asian nations including Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines is reshaping the security environment of the Indo-Pacific, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told a crowd here this…
Army’s planned assault rotorcraft clears hurdle, will move to engineering phase
The Army’s future-rotorcraft program cleared a risk assessment and is a go for engineering and development—and building six prototypes of its new Future Long Range Assault Aircraft, or FLRAA.On Friday, the service announced that the program…
Let’s start treating cyber security like it matters
When an airplane crashes, impartial investigatory bodies leap into action, empowered by law to unearth what happened and why. But there is no such empowered and impartial body to investigate CrowdStrike’s faulty update that recently…
The D Brief: Army rethinks maneuver warfare; Osprey-inquest results; Farnborough wrap-up; Weekend…
The U.S. Army may need to de-emphasize maneuver warfare in the face of new weapons that will make tomorrow’s wars “increasingly lethal,” the service’s Training and Doctrine Command said in a report unpacked Thursday by Defense One’s Sam…
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