US Army turns to 'Scylla' AI to protect depot Ominously-named bot can spot trouble from a mile away, distinguish threats from false alarms, says DoD AI + ML29 Oct 2024 | 3
Pentagon stumped by mystery drone swarm flying over Langley Air Force Base Not that there's anything important there – just F-22s and stuff Cybersecurity Month15 Oct 2024 | 85
DARPA pays $6M to see fully autonomous Black Hawk helicopters Resupply like Call of Duty? Not yet - only one planned for now Offbeat15 Oct 2024 | 4
US Army orders next-gen robot mule to haul a literal ton of gear Soldiers' new best friend does all the heavy lifting Bootnotes28 Sep 2024 | 62
US Army drafts AI to combat recruitment shortfall No more cold calls: Recruit 360 pinpoints top prospects from millions AI + ML25 Sep 2024 | 15
China claims Starlink signals can reveal stealth aircraft – and what that really means If this really was that useful, they wouldn't be telling us Security17 Sep 2024 | 98
Pentagon has little to show for two decades of GPS modernization work Not even the venerable expertise of the US Space Force is enough to push progress Software10 Sep 2024 | 16
Defense AI models 'a risk to life' alleges spurned tech firm In-depth Chatterbox Labs CEO claims Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office unfairly cancelled a contract then accused him of blackmail AI + ML06 Sep 2024 | 8
Green Berets storm building after compromising its Wi-Fi Relax, it's just a drill. This time at least Security30 Aug 2024 | 23
America's new Sentinel nukes mushroom 81% in cost. Pentagon says it's all good Minuteman replacement to hit $141B as officials promise good ol' 'restructure' Public Sector09 Jul 2024 | 46
US Army: We want to absorb private-sector AI 'as fast as y'all are building them' How about a nice game of chess instead? AI + ML02 Jul 2024 | 8
Engineers risk blasting US missile defense to smithereens, say auditors Now the 2028 deadline is at risk Public Sector27 Jun 2024 | 20
Britain's Ministry of Defence accused of wasting £174M on 'external advice' Morpheus comms system online by 2025? You must be dreaming Public Sector24 Jun 2024 | 51
Airbus shows off uncrewed AI-powered Wingman for fighter pilots Updated I feel the need, the need for ... a Euro-made military drone AI + ML05 Jun 2024 | 27
Command senior chief busted for secretly setting up Wi-Fi on US Navy combat ship In the Navy, no, you cannot have an unauthorized WLAN. In the Navy, no, that's not a good plan CSO04 Jun 2024 | 91
China shows off machine-gun-toting robot dog and its AI-powered puppy Training exercises test suitability for both reconnaissance and lethal kinetic action AI + ML29 May 2024 | 77
US Space Force says it needs more practice at responding to orbital emergencies But still just once a year because this stuff is expensive. Hopefully that's enough Public Sector23 May 2024 | 4
US Army doubles down on laser tag with $95M for prototyping Recently confirming first use of energy weapons in the field, military now wants bigger, better systems Science22 May 2024 | 17
Aleph Alpha enlists Cerebras waferscale supers to train AI for German military Also demonstrates success accelerating molecular dynamics HPC16 May 2024 | 1
The UK reveals it's spending millions on quantum navigation First commercial flight trials of a quantum-based system that could be a backup for GPS Networks14 May 2024 | 50
'Four horsemen of cyber' look back on 2008 DoD IT breach that led to US Cyber Command RSAC 'This was a no sh*tter' Spotlight on RSA10 May 2024 | 4
Politicians call for ban on 'killer robots' and the curbing of AI weapons Video 'This is the Oppenheimer moment of our generation' AI + ML30 Apr 2024 | 56
DARPA's latest toy is a 20-foot, 12-ton tank that drives itself Crew entirely optional Offbeat25 Apr 2024 | 35
SpaceX, Northrop Grumman reportedly working on US spy sat program LEO rising in US military: Close encounters of the recon kind Networks19 Apr 2024 | 5
US Air Force says AI-controlled F-16 fighter jet has been dogfighting with humans Video Robo-plane was made to restrain itself so as not to harm pilot or airframe AI + ML18 Apr 2024 | 109
Psst, hey. It's the NSA. You want some AI security advice? You can trust us, we're the good guys AI + ML17 Apr 2024 | 2
China scientists talk of powering hypersonic weapon with cheap Nvidia chip Analysis Jetson module can efficiently process computational fluid dynamics models Systems16 Apr 2024 | 6
Space Force boss warns 'the US will lose' without help from Musk and Bezos China, Russia have muscled up, and whoever wins up there wins down here Security11 Apr 2024 | 41
US Air Force secretary so confident in AI-controlled F-16s, he'll fly in one With a pilot as backup of course – VENOM is still emerging tech AI + ML10 Apr 2024 | 34
Intel inches closer to $3.5B contract to build secret fabs for Uncle Sam They can't have x86 goliath building military chips out in the open now can they? Systems07 Mar 2024 | 3
US accuses Army vet cyber-Casanova of sharing Russia-Ukraine war secrets Where better to expose confidential data than on a dating app? Security05 Mar 2024 | 17
Italy's military mulling space-based supercomputing cloud HPC satellites less about world domination, more high availability for comms HPC20 Feb 2024 | 18
US Air Force's new cyber, IT skill recruitment plan: Bring back warrant officer ranks Officer pay, limited command duties and writing 'code for your country' Security14 Feb 2024 | 10
Software troubles delay F-35 fighter jet deliveries ... again There's more than one way for these things to crash Public Sector24 Jan 2024 | 64
Perfect timing... US Navy throws Boeing $103M to update its sub recon jets Just as Secretary of State's 737 goes on the Blink(en) at Davos Public Sector18 Jan 2024 | 30
Pentagon using ChatGPT? Oh sure, for cyber-things and veterans, says OpenAI Just days after ban on 'military and warfare' applications goes away, Davos hears the details AI + ML16 Jan 2024 | 4
US Navy sailor swaps sea for cell after accepting bribes from Chinese snoops Petty officer Wenheng Zhao admitted to taking as many as 14 payoffs in return for non-public military information Security09 Jan 2024 | 32
Microchip nabs $162M to keep chips for washing machines – and missiles – flowing Uncle Sam: Nothing goes together quite like a well-pressed uniform and weapons of mass destruction On-Prem04 Jan 2024 | 3
UK will be HQ for high-flying next-gen fighter jet treaty with Italy, Japan Global Combat Air Program aims to replace Eurofighter Typhoon and Mitsubishi F-2 Public Sector18 Dec 2023 | 71
British arms dealer BAE behind F-35 electronics first in line for US CHIPS funds More awards imminent agency says Public Sector11 Dec 2023 | 13
Stratolaunch takes ready-to-fly hypersonic craft skyward, but still no launch Scheduled summer Mach 5 flight deadline came and went Science06 Dec 2023 | 12
Korean peninsula space race sees South and North launch tit for tat spy sats North claims it took photos of stuff. South points to success of homegrown booster Offbeat05 Dec 2023 | 8
Space Force turns to Falcon Heavy for spaceplane's seventh mission Experiments include subjecting seeds to radiation and expanding flight envelope Science09 Nov 2023 | 13
Intel to build hush-hush fabs to bake chips for US military 'Secure enclave' reports point to separate production line with blocked off access Public Sector07 Nov 2023 | 6
You can buy personal info of US military staff from data brokers for just 12 cents a pop Health records, financial situations, religious leanings, it's all out there, or so this study says Public Sector07 Nov 2023 | 15
We're getting that fry-day feeling... US Army gets hold of drone-cooking microwave rig Look, in the sky - it's a, oh, never mind Public Sector03 Nov 2023 | 80
Feds collar suspected sanctions-busting Russian smugglers of US tech Parts sent to Moscow allegedly found on Ukrainian battlefields Security01 Nov 2023 | 15
$350B DoD nuke makeover efforts lack oversight, say inspectors Still, it's not like it's a matter of life and death, is it? Public Sector30 Oct 2023 | 18
US govt talks up $2B X-ray photobooth to check its nuke weapon sims are right Sub-critical plutonium implosion to be snapped on nanosecond scale HPC09 Oct 2023 | 18
DoJ: Ex-soldier tried to pass secrets to China after seeking a 'subreddit about spy stuff' FBI agent claims sergeant with top clearance offered access to DoD tech systems Security09 Oct 2023 | 50
UK splashes £4B to dive into next-gen nuclear submarines Detailed design and long lead contracts signed off for SSN-AUKUS project Public Sector03 Oct 2023 | 23
US military F-35 readiness problems highlighted in aptly timed report This surely can't be related to that crash debacle over the weekend, right? Offbeat22 Sep 2023 | 26
If anyone finds an $80M F-35 stealth fighter, please call the Pentagon Updated US military enlists public to help track down missing jet Offbeat18 Sep 2023 | 77
NixCon drops Palmer Luckey's AI combat drone maker Anduril as sponsor due to military ties NixOS event organizers say community unhappy about funding from Pentagon contractor AI + ML08 Sep 2023 | 8
Attackers accessed UK military data through high-security fencing firm's Windows 7 rig Irony, not barbed wire, cuts the deepest Cyber-crime04 Sep 2023 | 70
Let's give these quadruped robot dogs next-gen XM7 rifles, says US Army Black Mirror? Never heard of it Bootnotes30 Aug 2023 | 34
Getting meshy: BAE scores £89m deal with MoD to build new battlefield network It'll replace the old one, also built by BAE, on a very tight schedule: The old junk's due to be ripped out in 2026 Networks25 Aug 2023 | 17
Pentagon dumps $1.5B more into military sat network that's already slipping behind One might say this program is truly up in the air Networks22 Aug 2023 | 4
Lockheed's ARRW hypersonic missile: Sometimes it flies, sometimes it just tries US Air Force keeping mum on results of weekend test Science22 Aug 2023 | 16
US Space Force finally creates targeting unit – better late than never, right? No rush on this seemingly vital component of defense, guys Science17 Aug 2023 | 14
Indian armed forces gives Windows its marching orders, but only for desktop warriors Opinion I am become Tux, destroyer of warez OSes14 Aug 2023 | 40
US military battling cyber threats from within and without As if attacks from China weren't enough, one of the Air Force's own has reportedly gone rogue Security01 Aug 2023 | 9