Defense Systems

If GPS goes down, could aircraft navigate by comparing what they sense around them to detailed three-dimensional maps? A major satellite imagery company believes so.Maxar’s nascent Pinpoint tool will use a drone’s video feed to infer its…

Maxar’s chief product officer Peter Wilczynski, who joined the space-imagery company over the summer, is spearheading an effort to build navigation systems that use 3D maps instead of GPS. But the Palantir alum is also working to develop…

HONOLULU—The war in Ukraine shows how the United States must improve its acquisition process if it hopes to maintain military strength, the deputy commander of Pacific Fleet said Tuesday.Ukraine “provides us a great example of the…

Upgrades are making the Army’s battle network easier for soldiers to use, but it’s still not exactly what they’re asking for.“It's really good, but it is extremely complicated and…it's better than what we had before,” Col. James Stultz, who…

The lone Pacific brigade chosen for the Army’s new equipment strategy is finding that the new tech has unique advantages for its terrain — as well as challenges, the unit’s commanding general said Friday. The unit, the 2nd Brigade of…

A U.S. X-37B space plane is slated to test a new way of rapidly changing its orbit, part of the Space Force’s quest for fuel-sipping maneuverability.The spacecraft will experiment with aerobraking, which uses Earth’s atmosphere to slow…

An AI-powered replacement for the repository of intelligence on foreign militaries is headed for the Pentagon’s classified network, where it will help pioneer new security techniques and become fully operational about a year later than…

It takes just a moment to add a new app to your phone, but adding a sensor to a military radar display takes years. That’s why air-defense troops must bounce between multiple systems, wasting precious seconds as they scramble to identify…

The Air Force picked longtime defense IT contractor Leidos to develop and manage the guts of the service’s next-gen command, control, and communications network Defense One has learned. The $303 million contract covers “planning,…

The Marine Corps is gingerly introducing its new Amphibious Combat Vehicle to its intended habitat—the coasts of Asia—two years after two surf rollovers led the Corps to suspend the vehicle’s water operations.One requirement: no big…