Science&Tech

U.S., Australian, British, and Japanese defense officials converged on Australia’s Jervis Bay this week for a weeklong experiment to test how to integrate new, developmental tech from different countries in order to speed up intelligence…

In a future war, Army tanks growling around the battlefield may be able to send live data back to their headquarters showing every time they fire a round or burn a gallon of fuel.Using that data, logisticians back at the base might then…

A growing number of Silicon Valley AI companies want to do business with the military, making the case that the time and effort they’ve put into training large neural networks on vast amounts of data could provide the military new…

When Col. Josh Glonek has a question about how to use the mountain of new technology the Army is sending his way, he knows just who to ask: Col. James Stultz. That’s because Stultz has been there—since April, his unit has been learning…

Estonia is looking to acquire weapons and gear to hit an invading force before it reaches the country’s borders, the head of its defense procurement office says.“With our current investments and the additional investments into defense, we…

The Army will expand a new equipment-fielding initiative focused on drones, electronic warfare, and other modern tech to several more units, service leader Gen. Randy George said Tuesday. Two armored brigade combat teams, two Stryker…

Russia is giving its armed drones more autonomy as Ukraine’s defenses tighten, a dynamic that has the U.S. Army working harder to bulk up its own anti-drone and -missile systems, service and industry officials said.Defense One caught up…

Small drones have been changing modern warfare at least since 2015, when Russia and Ukraine began to use them to great effect for rapid targeting. The latest addition is a strike-and-intelligence quadcopter that its builder hopes…

The prevailing "bigger-is-better" approach to artificial intelligence—ingest more training data, produce larger models, build bigger data centers—might be undermining the kind of research and development the U.S. military actually needs now…

Two U.S. senators are working across the aisle to get answers from the Pentagon about its efforts to advance quantum sensing—whose promises include jam-resistant position-navigation-timing systems—and whether the U.S. military can keep pace…