AIRO’s ‘slowed rotor’ hybrid-electric VTOL drone aims to solve resupply issues
Company executives told Breaking Defense the dual-use design targets a logistics gap between rear-operational hubs and forward units.
Army’s autonomy office looks beyond drone, robot platforms to ‘packages of capability’
CPE Mission Autonomy will focus first on combat engineering, fires, and logistics, the office’s leader said.
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Europe rearms: Battle management, counter-UAS, and real AI at the edge
Mapping Europe’s modernization from the Eastern drone wall to actual artificial intelligence resident in tanks.
USVs could be ‘alternate options’ for missions for stretched manned fleet: Navy official
USVs are emerging as modular force elements when sending a large combatant ship is too costly or disproportionate.
Working ‘outside the lines’ to scale production isn’t working: Cadenazzi
DIU still vets drone tech, but a new strategy says wartime scaling requires internal attention and reform from others.
The future of Zero Trust
Zero Trust leader Randy Resnick provides a status update and discusses new initiatives.
US must lead in building a Pacific drone industrial base to balance China’s economic might and hegemony
Indo-Pacific allies see unmanned systems, shared production, and interoperability as essential to offset China’s scale.
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Built for another era, our air-and-missile-defense industrial base needs more builders
New entrants are filling unmet needs in air-and-missile defense.
How TAK gives the US military an advantage at the Edge
“Tactical operating system” for warfighters has evolved to provide more situational awareness of the battlefield.
Air Force CISO: You’re thinking about network resilience wrong
Rather than getting networks back online quickly after an outage, focus more on defending the network in the first place, Air Force Chief Information Security Officer Aaron Bishop said.
Air Force reorg plan for weapons procurement likely done by year’s end: Official
Weapon systems procurement is also evolving to include new Zero Trust cybersecurity measures that don't affect mission execution.
Pentagon refines zero trust for OT as Air Force treats its bases as frontline targets
A zero trust end state is not redundancy or recovery but an infrastructure that never goes down in the first place.
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How defensive cyber responds to hockey-stick growth of AI-driven threats
Artificial intelligence is reshaping adversarial cyber operations at machine speed, requiring defenders to increase operational tempo while imposing pain and cost.
New offensive cyber operations squad standing up for Air Force Reserve
As cyber veterans exit active duty, a new Reserve offensive squadron gives them a way to keep executing missions, an officer told Breaking Defense.
As China pushes out from the First Island Chain, US allies like Japan and the Philippines surveil from nearby
Industrial imbalance grows in the Indo-Pacific as China outbuilds the region in ships and rockets.
The role of Japan and the Philippines in resisting a Chinese blockade of Taiwan
Strategic geography, resupply corridors, and maritime access underscore Manila and Tokyo’s ability to assist Taiwan.
Resilient comms emerge as first line of defense in the electronic warfare fight
DoD labs are stress-testing anti-jam systems so warfighters can command and control in the face of EW.