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
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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 | 79
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 | 1
Let's give these quadruped robot dogs next-gen XM7 rifles, says US Army
Black Mirror? Never heard of it
Bootnotes30 Aug 2023 | 34
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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 | 60
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
Inmarsat gets $1b from US Navy for 10 years of satellite data
Outsourcing national defence didn't work so well in Ukraine
Off-Prem13 Oct 2022 | 3
US military fuels eVTOL research with $75m contract
The renewed agreement more than doubles the DoD's deal with Joby Aviation
Science12 Aug 2022 | 11
US Space Force deploys robot dogs at Cape Canaveral base
Patrolling quadrupeds not fitted with 7.62mm tank machine guns – yet
Offbeat09 Aug 2022 | 34
Russia 'stole US defense data' from IT systems
Clearly no need for leet zero-day hax when you can spearphish and exploit months-old vulnerabilities
Security17 Feb 2022 | 35
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