Defense Systems

SAN DIEGO—The Navy has a new sea base that can handle anything from minesweeping to V-22 operations to unmanned systems—if ever called to do so. USS John L. Canley, named for a Marine gunnery sergeant who received the medal of honor…

The Air Force has launched a “comprehensive review” of its CV-22 force after a deadly crash killed eight airmen and the Pentagon grounded its entire fleet of Ospreys. The review will determine whether the CV-22 force is “appropriately…

SAN DIEGO—Sailors who tinker with data sets at sea: know that Capt. Bryan Braswell sees you—and wants to formally fold data science into information warfare training. Sailors often develop these skills outside of a service mandate or…

SAN DIEGO—The Navy is using automation and data analytics to boost cyberdefenses for its unclassified networks—while making cyber operators’ jobs a little easier, the head of Fleet Cyber Command said Tuesday. “Instead of an operator…

As the U.S. Navy works to link its IT systems, it has hired a software company to create tools to keep sailors from drowning in data.“There's so much that goes into JADC2 at different levels of detail and different data flows,” said…

The Army will cancel its multi-billion dollar Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft, or FARA, program, officials said Thursday, announcing a slew of aviation-acquisition changes.The planned scout helicopter is being scuttled…

Preventing the next intelligence leak could be as simple as acting on a tip that a user is behaving abnormally. But sometimes those tips go unnoticed, a top defense tech official said.“We all have some user activity monitoring tools. We…

The Pentagon wants to give rapid prototyping contracts worth about $60 million to U.S. biotechnology firms as part of a new program designed to improve supply chains.The Defense Department is soliciting white papers from firms interested in…

Some Marine Corps squads will get loitering munitions as soon as fiscal year 2027, and the race is already on to figure out how to operate them in congested airspace, two program managers said Tuesday. The Corps first identified the…

The U.S. Department of Defense’s nomenclature equipment identification system is formally known as the Joint Electronics Type Designation System (JETDS). But it's more commonly called the “AN” designation system, harking back to…