United States Armed Forces

$10 billion, 10 year US Army contract elevates Palantir to defense contracting royalty

Crashes the multibillion-dollar DoD party alongside Boeing, Lockheed, and Raytheon

Public Sector01 Aug 2025 | 11

Ex-CISA chief slams MAGA 'manufactured outrage' after sudden West Point firing

comment US Army Sec appears to fold under pressure from far-right conspiracy theorist

Public Sector31 Jul 2025 | 36

Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI get $800M to hop in bed with Pentagon

Updated Looks like DoD FOMO struck Silicon Valley

Public Sector14 Jul 2025 | 13

Hegseth signs flying memo to expand military use of cheap drones in oddball video

video An announcement so weird it could only come from the Trump administration

Public Sector11 Jul 2025 | 87

Lovestruck US Air Force worker admits leaking secrets on dating app

Oh my sweet secret informant lover, what happened in that NATO meeting today?

Security10 Jul 2025 | 34

Army and Navy have both asked for right to repair, now Senators want to give it to them

You want that military contract? Then no more proprietary repairability clauses!

Public Sector08 Jul 2025 | 22

US Air Force holds hypersonic resupply site review amid seabird concerns

Red-tailed tropicbirds stymie Johnston Atoll maneuvers

Public Sector03 Jul 2025 | 18

America and Britain gear up with Project Flytrap to bring anti-drone kit to the battlefield

video Prepping to fight the next war, not the last one

Public Sector23 Jun 2025 | 19

Defense Department signs OpenAI for $200 million 'frontier AI' pilot project

DoD says deal covers 'warfighting'. OpenAI merely mentions healthcare and 'supporting proactive cyber defense'

Public Sector17 Jun 2025 | 6

UK 'extremely dependent' on US for space security

After 60 years+ cooperation on space and military ops, worrying 'rhetoric' from Team Trump has Brits examining options

Security21 May 2025 | 107

Pentagon needs China's rare earths, Beijing just put them behind a permit wall. Oops

World war fee Trump’s tremendous trade tussle triggers troubling twist, theoretically

Public Sector15 Apr 2025 | 153

US Army’s laser obsession continues with yet another drone-zapper deal

We have one, yes – but what about a second death ray?

Public Sector25 Mar 2025 | 62

Dept of Defense engineer took home top-secret docs, booked a fishing trip to Mexico – then the FBI showed up

So much for that vacation

Public Sector20 Mar 2025 | 61

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

Healthcare outfit that served military personnel settles allegations it faked infosec compliance for $11M

If this makes you feel sick, knowing this happened before ransomware actors started targeting medical info may help

Security19 Feb 2025 | 8

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

Probe finds US Coast Guard has left maritime cybersecurity adrift

Numerous systemic vulnerabilities could scuttle $5.4T industry

Public Sector11 Feb 2025 | 13

Never mind those Chinese spies: US Air Force picks Verizon for 35 base network upgrades

Salt Typhoon? Unpatched network kit? Sorry, I think you're breaking up

Networks08 Jan 2025 | 6

Abandoned US Army 'city under the ice' imaged in serendipitous NASA find

Camp Century could spill millions of gallons of sewage, diesel fuel, and nuclear waste as climate warms

Science25 Nov 2024 | 78

Alleged Snowflake attacker gets busted by Canadians – politely, we assume

Infosec in brief Also: Crypto hacks will continue; CoD hacker gets thousands banned, and more

Security11 Nov 2024 |

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

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

Homeland security hopes to scuttle maritime cyber-threats with port infosec testbed

Supply chains, 13M jobs and $649B a year at risk, so Uncle Sam is fighting back - with a request for info

Public Sector05 Sep 2024 | 5

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

Do you really need that GPU or NPU for your AI apps?

Kettle And how do we feel about Palantir selling its ML-based targeting system to the entire US military? Tune in!

AI + ML01 Jun 2024 | 8

Palantir bags $480M from Pentagon to inject battlefield AI into the entire military

Uncle Sam wants Maven Smart System to be in use across DoD by 2029

Public Sector30 May 2024 | 12

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

Iran most likely to launch destructive cyber-attack against US – ex-Air Force intel analyst

Interview But China's the most technologically advanced

Spotlight on RSA10 May 2024 | 8

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

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 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

It is a bird, a plane or a Chinese spy balloon? None of the above

One year on, balloon fever remains alive and well in the US

Offbeat26 Feb 2024 | 26

Pentagon launches nuke-spotting satellites amid Russian space bomb rumors

Updated Dungeons and Dragons, high-waisted jeans, Cold War sabre rattling – the '80s are back, baby

Public Sector15 Feb 2024 | 69

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

Nokia walks the walk about its RAN to play on Uncle Sam’s China fears

Comment It pays not to be Huawei, and the US military can be lucrative, too

Security17 Jan 2024 | 8

Discord in the ranks: Lone Airman behind top-secret info leak on chat platform

Poor cybersecurity hygiene in the military? Surely not!

Cyber-crime12 Dec 2023 | 21

US Air Force wants to see some atomic motors for future spacecraft

Take this $34M, Lockheed Martin, and give us an uranium fission engine for electricity, heat, propulsion

Public Sector10 Nov 2023 | 72

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

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

DARPA worried battlefield mixed reality vulnerable to 'cognitive attacks'

Hacks, physical tricks could turn headsets into vomit extractors, but tests already show no ops needed for that

Public Sector12 Oct 2023 | 6

NSA hopes AI Security Center will help US outsmart, outwit, and outlast adversaries

Agency boss warns enemies trying to nick AI advances and 'corrupt our application of it'

AI + ML02 Oct 2023 |

Let's give these quadruped robot dogs next-gen XM7 rifles, says US Army

Black Mirror? Never heard of it

Bootnotes30 Aug 2023 | 33

US Air Force wants $6B to build 2,000 AI-powered drones

Pilots' Goose cooked as uncrewed vehicles prove cheaper and perhaps more versatile

AI + ML29 Aug 2023 | 86

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 Air Force burns more money on electric flying taxis

Waiting on that thumbs up from the FAA

Bootnotes31 Jul 2023 | 14

US Air Force's Angry Kitten turns Reaper drone into fierce feline of electronic warfare

Hardware from a decade ago? More like grumpy old mog

Offbeat21 Jul 2023 | 21

Here's what the US Army picked for soldier-worn tactical USB hubs

That kit ain't for chargin' your iPhone, Private!

On-Prem08 May 2023 | 36

US Air Force scares up $75.5M for ad-hoc missile silo network

At a planned 25k square miles, it's said to be largest net of its kind yet

Networks07 Mar 2023 | 7

US military spends weekend shooting down Useless Floating Objects

You wait years for unidentified aerial phenomena then three turn up at once

Offbeat13 Feb 2023 | 61

US blocks $400m Army HoloLens orders, Microsoft left with a tenth for R&D

Nausea and headaches do not a fit fighting force make, so back to the lab for version 1.2

Personal Tech12 Jan 2023 | 6

US think tank says China would probably lose if it tries to invade Taiwan

But even a short conflict would wreck the economy, which would be bad news for semiconductor supplies

Government Tech Week12 Jan 2023 | 58

US Air Force signs $344m deal for hypersonic Mayhem aircraft

Part missile, part spy plane, all Mach 5+ and coming in 2028, maybe

Science19 Dec 2022 | 21

US Air Force tests its first fully functional hypersonic missile

I used to be a missileer like you, then I took an ARRW in the knee

Science14 Dec 2022 | 52