Defense Systems

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…

The U.S. Navy’s next ballistic-missile submarine is already late and over budget—and the actual overrun might nearly quintuple the service's projections, a government watchdog agency says.“Our independent analysis calculated…

A second phase of Replicator—the Pentagon’s year-old, high-profile effort to buy thousands of cheap-ish autonomous weapons—aims to procure defenses against small drones.Dubbed Replicator 2, the effort will focus on the threat to…

LONDON—When defense chiefs from the U.S., UK and Australia met reporters after their AUKUS meeting here on Thursday, they touted an agreement to share a submarine-hunting torpedo. But when asked whether Australia was concerned about the…

LONDON—A collaborative, AI-powered effort to hunt enemy submarines shows that AUKUS is working, U.S. defense officials said ahead of a meeting of the U.S., UK, and Australian defense chiefs here.“It's a change in how we do things and how…

The Space Force is halfway through its two-year experiment of monitoring fitness via smartwatches instead of physical fitness tests. The service’s top enlisted leader recently shared his experience with the program—and how he envisions…

The Air Force’s top tech integration office has been busy deploying cloud-based command and communications tools for air defense. Now, the goal is to take them to operational systems while expanding use of tactical kits, said Brig. Gen.…

Every time a KC-135 lands, it’s greeted by a swarm of maintainers armed with three-ring binders and stacks of paper forms, sometimes tablets or laptops—all necessary to determine and document the plane’s readiness to fly again. Converting…

The Pentagon’s new satellite launch competition between SpaceX, United Launch Alliance, and Blue Origin could be delayed if Congress passes a long continuing resolution instead of a full budget for 2025, a space acquisitions official said…

Time was, the U.S. military needed a giant AWACS aircraft packed with people, sensors, and computers to handle sensing and data sharing. Northrop Grumman now says it has a way to do much of that far from the vulnerable skies.NG InSight is a…