Science&Tech

The Pentagon wants to spend more than 20 percent more next year to research, develop, test and evaluate new technologies—but that increase would come from the Trump administration’s massive tax and budget reconciliation bill, leaving…

“I could imagine the battle group eventually becoming completely autonomous,” said Greg Avicola, a program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, outlining a vision of a Navy strike force built not around an aircraft…

Google Pla Apple PodcastsGuests: Philippe Lavigne, a retired French general, was Chief of Staff of the French Air and Space Force from 2018 to 2021, then NATO's transformation chief for three years. As media partner for this year's 20th…

Google Pla Apple PodcastsGuests: Brandon Tseng, co-founder and president of Shield AI, in conversation with Defense One's Patrick Tucker. As media partner for this year's 20th edition of the GLOBSEC Forum in Prague, Defense One is sharing a…

The Air Force is resurrecting its boost-glide missile program—an effort first launched to much fanfare in August 2018, only to see mixed results in testing and ultimately lose support from service leadership amid investment in alternative…

An Army brigade training in the Philippines has been able to 3D-print about 100 drones in the field, leaders told reporters Wednesday, in addition to sourcing and purifying their own water—all part of learning to better operate in the vast…

WASHINGTON—The Pentagon has long sought to realize the potential of artificial intelligence to help commanders; now U.S. Indo-Pacific Command is about to use AI-powered decision aids in a signature tabletop exercise.INDOPACOM will put its…

As drones move toward the center of modern combat, U.S. Army units are scrambling to invent ways to give soldiers the training they need.That includes exploring virtual and small-scale, home-station training environments to get more…

Two veterans now serving in Congress took a step Friday to institutionalize one of the Defense Department’s most effective—but lesser-known—bridges between Silicon Valley and the Pentagon: the Joint Reserve Detachment of the Defense…

The U.S. military is working on ways to get the power of cloud-based, big-data AI in tools that can run on local computers, draw upon more focused data sets, and remain safe from spying eyes, officials from OpenAI, Scale AI, and U.S.…