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The explosion in new AI capabilities is driving a related competition for more electrical power, including nuclear power. But practical and regulatory obstacles have inhibited investors. Now, the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit has…

A new way to train factory robots could revolutionize how militaries make drones and other weapons, enabling high-volume manufacturing close to front lines. And beyond the battlefield, it shows a possible path forward in the next era of…

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—Dozens of onlookers gathered on a pier overlooking the Potomac River, shivering in the cold wind to see a small, 24-foot long vessel speed around without a captain. It was Corsair, the smallest offering from…

The Marine Corps is about to start experimenting with handheld counter-unmanned aerial systems to outfit deployed Marines, the deputy commandant for combat development and integration said Tuesday at the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space…

The Navy is awash in dashboards that provide real-time data of everything from manning to maintenance to weapons and fuel stocks, a big step forward from the days when that data lived on a PowerPower slide and was often days or weeks…

Like a spring-loaded toy snake from a tube, the Sea Spear is intended to pop from a mother drone, expand to 50 times its length—and then hang around for months, silently listening for enemy submarines.The new sonar concept from dronemaker…

The U.S. may cede its technological superiority to China if it does not speed up the development and deployment of artificial intelligence, the former head of the Pentagon’s office for accelerating AI adoption said Monday. During…

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The field of quantum computing, like qubits themselves, exists in a state of indeterminacy, with multiple companies making big claims about wildly different approaches. On Thursday, DARPA—the Defense Advanced Projects Research…

Next year, two U.S. warships are slated to get a prototype AI-powered system designed to filter their sensor data for potential targets—and then predict their behavior, according to the system’s manufacturer.“The sensors that the Navy…