AI’s next leap for the Intelligence Community: Agents managing agents
DIA, NGA and the FBI are building the infrastructure and guardrails needed for increasingly autonomous artificial intelligence.
Why patching networks against cyberattacks is ‘very scary’ in the age of AI
The long-standing mantra that certain operational systems must be continuously available and can’t be brought down for a patch is becoming harder to defend as cyber threats accelerate, US officials warn.
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Biodefense is force protection: Ready today, prepared for tomorrow
A decorated combat aviator and biotech CEO advocates preparing for novel viral threats before the next crisis.
‘No such thing as a regional conflict anymore,’ STRATCOM chief says
The Internet, social media, cyber and artificial intelligence extend the effects of war far beyond the battlefield, the admiral warned.
Agentic AI turning Zero Trust cybersecurity ‘on its head’
A top Intelligence Community official said the government may need to develop digital birth certificates for AI agents.
The autonomous CCA wingmen of 2030 may look nothing like today’s assumptions
While services test teaming with Collaborative Combat Aircraft, industry faces hard questions.
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.
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Addressing the ‘four tyrannies’ of the Pacific to keep logistics flowing
Predictive artificial intelligence and autonomy will reshape how forces are sustained across the Pacific.
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.
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.
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Acquisition reform at the speed of war
As part of the DoW’s acquisition transformation, streamlined processes must be extended to all companies in the defense industrial base.
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.
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.