Military

Ex-US Cyber Command chief: Europe and 5 Eyes can't fully replicate US intel

Cue deepening existential European dread as Rest of World contemplates Trump turning off the info tap

Security19 Mar 2025 | 75

It begins: Pentagon to give AI agents a role in decision making, ops planning

Updated Former allies, take note. This is a WOPR

AI + ML05 Mar 2025 | 41

Microsoft wants to quit building Army VR goggles, hand contract to Anduril

Will the Pentagon get Luckey with a new IVAS vendor?

Public Sector12 Feb 2025 | 10

Anduril picks Ohio for 5 million square foot autonomous weapon factory

The hyperscale plant is designed to produce tens of thousands of AVs a year

Offbeat16 Jan 2025 | 26

British Army zaps drones out of the sky with laser trucks

High-energy weapon proves its mettle in testing

Public Sector12 Dec 2024 | 145

US military grounds entire Osprey tiltrotor fleet over safety concerns

Boeing-Bell V-22 can't outfly its checkered past, it seems

Public Sector10 Dec 2024 | 89

NATO tests aquatic drones to protect cables, coastlines

Floating the idea of a robot navy

Networks05 Dec 2024 | 10

Dell settles with Uncle Sam over Army bid-rigging claims

DoJ alleges merely overpriced offers from reseller followed inflated deals from IT giant

Public Sector20 Nov 2024 | 2

UK test-fires Spear mini cruise missile that will equip F-35 fighters

2-way datalink allows in-flight info updates including retargeting and abort

Public Sector18 Nov 2024 | 76

Congress ponders underwater alien civilizations, human hybrids, and other unexplained stuff

Video Because life's not weird enough in the United States these days

Science14 Nov 2024 | 48

Air National Guardsman gets 15 years after splashing classified docs on Discord

22-year-old talked of 'culling the weak minded' – hmm!

Cyber-crime13 Nov 2024 | 93

Meta gives nod to weaponizing Llama – but only for the good guys

Change of mind follows discovery China was playing with it uninvited?

AI + ML06 Nov 2024 | 9

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 | 14

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 | 97

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 | 50

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 | 19

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