Defense Systems

If small drones are critical to the Army’s future fight, what happens when you run out of batteries?That’s one of the questions the 10th Mountain Division’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team tackled during a recent rotation at the Joint Multinational…

Updated: 3:36 p.m. ET.The Air Force has started ground-testing its prototype robot wingmen ahead of their first flight this summer, the service announced today.The tests of the collaborative combat aircraft will focus on “propulsion…

The U.S. military’s fleet of V-22 Ospreys won’t be able to fly without restrictions until 2026—about a year later than originally planned—as officials work to upgrade flawed gearboxes that have caused several mishaps.The military put…

The Army has rolled out a generative AI workspace where users can apply large language models to daily tasks and boost productivity. But using AI tools requires a lot of compute power and storage. So the service has also been working to…

Microsoft announced on Wednesday that its OpenAI-enabled Azure offerings will be available to more of the federal workforce through a new Defense Information Systems Agency authorization that marks the service as approved across all…

What’s better than being able to launch satellites quickly to orbit? Having them there already—or so goes the thinking behind a new $60 million Space Force contract to develop an “orbital carrier.”Gravitics received a Strategic Funding…

Updated: 3:15 p.m.. ET.Boeing will develop and build a sixth-generation fighter jet for the Air Force, President Donald Trump announced Friday, ending months of deliberation about whether to proceed with the effort and how much it might…

The Pentagon’s new marching orders to buy software as fast as commercial companies do has the contracting workforce feeling a bit anxious, which is a sign that major cultural change is needed, a top defense official said Tuesday. “I…

Tech-curious federal workers can now test drive the geodata search engine created by AI-startup Danti already used by some defense and intelligence agencies. The cloud-based platform, which can be retooled for various…

The Space Force will need to use AI in new ways to identify and track objects in space—also called “space domain awareness”—as space becomes increasingly congested, the service’s acting deputy chief of space operations for cyber and data…