With growing presence, DIU continues efforts to lower barriers for new entrants
Less than a year since the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit entered its new era dubbed DIU 3.0, the innovation hub has its eyes set on further scaling operations and bringing more non-traditional...
View ArticlePete Hegseth, Trump’s new defense secretary, issues message vowing to...
Newly confirmed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth issued a message to the military on Saturday that expressed his intent to quickly field emerging capabilities to deter China and others. Hegseth...
View ArticleHegseth highlights ‘Iron Dome for America’, other first priorities as new SecDef
Kicking off his first Monday in the office as the new secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth briefly spotlighted his team’s earliest leadership priorities — including executing on President Trump’s new...
View ArticleCentral Command gets new chief technology officer
The combatant command that oversees American military operations in the Middle East has a new chief technology officer. Joy Angela Shanaberger, who recently served as a senior adviser to Deputy...
View ArticleArmy finalizing contracting approach for scaled-up version of enterprise data...
The Army is combing through industry feedback on how the service can effectively turn its Army Data Platform (ADP) into a multi-vendor program that adds new capabilities, as well as flexibility on how...
View ArticleL3Harris unveils plan to control thousands of autonomous systems simultaneously
Defense contractor L3Harris is developing an ambitious effort to control thousands of autonomous systems at the same time through a single user interface. Much work remains, however. Company officials...
View ArticleHegseth directs pause on Dept. of the Air Force’s reorganization efforts
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered the Department of the Air Force to pause its sweeping reorganization effort until Congress approves new leadership under the Trump administration,...
View ArticleMicrosoft plans to hand over reins of Army’s IVAS program to Anduril
Microsoft is proposing to hand over industry leadership of the Army’s Integrated Visual Augmentation System program to Anduril, the companies announced Tuesday. IVAS has been one of the service’s...
View ArticleTrump, Modi announce new US-India autonomous systems partnership
The United States and India are launching a new Autonomous Systems Industry Alliance (ASIA) aimed at boosting co-development and co-production of maritime drones and counter-drone systems. The...
View ArticleRaytheon ready to add AI-enabled radar warning receiver to fighter jets,...
After a number of recent flight tests, RTX subsidiary Raytheon says it successfully integrated artificial intelligence capabilities into the company’s digital radar warning receiver (RWR) and is now...
View ArticleInside IBM’s complex effort to create and scale next-gen quantum supercomputers
Researchers and engineers at IBM are hustling to build out a large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum supercomputer by 2029, according to a senior executive steering that work. In the process, the team is...
View ArticleNo money, no problem: Army unit making its own drones
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — With limited resources and funds, an Army unit is looking to make its own drones at a fraction of the cost of commercially available systems procured through traditional...
View ArticleCombatant commands to get new generative AI tech for operational planning,...
The U.S. military’s Indo-Pacific Command and European Command are first in line to receive new generative artificial intelligence capabilities delivered by Scale AI and its industry partners via the...
View ArticleDIU, Air Force move forward with 2 vendors to next phase of Enterprise Test...
AURORA, Colo. — The Defense Innovation Unit has chosen Anduril and Zone 5 Technologies to move to the next phase of a program aimed at developing an affordable and modular air vehicle for the Air...
View ArticleSOCOM searching for reconfigurable ‘drone-in-a-box’ systems that can fly and...
U.S. Special Operations Command is pursuing a concept called “Drone in a Box” that aims to give commandos reconfigurable platforms that could serve as unmanned aerial systems or ground robots —...
View ArticleCongress sets Pentagon research, development, test and evaluation spending at...
Defense Department officials finally know how much money they’ll receive for research, development, test and evaluation this fiscal year after lawmakers passed legislation that will fund federal...
View ArticleDOD turns its focus to 6G with concept that could help sense drones
As the Defense Department anticipates the wireless networks of the future for warfighting missions, it has shifted its focus for research and development primarily to 6G wireless technologies, Marlan...
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Boeing wins contract for Air Force’s NGAD stealth fighter jet — now known as...
U.S. officials announced Friday that Boeing will build the Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) platform, ending a months-long pause to the sixth-generation fighter jet program intended to...
View ArticleTrump taps ‘The DoddFather’ to oversee critical technologies at the Pentagon
President Donald Trump has nominated Michael Dodd to be assistant secretary of defense for critical technologies — a key role in the Pentagon’s research and engineering directorate. The nomination was...
View ArticleSOCOM awards Anduril $86M contract for autonomy software integration
U.S. Special Operations Command has tapped Anduril to help the organization develop and deploy autonomy software that can coordinate the operations of a variety of drones and other robotic platforms...
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