Autonomy changes everything about combat engineering
Sending robotic vehicles into the breach saves lives by removing humans from one of the most dangerous places on the battlefield.
Satellite communications: A roadmap for securing tactical and strategic missions
Experts discuss SATCOM challenges and solutions for resilient, secure and more space-based comms across orbits.
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Precision at scale: APKWS counters the threat
APKWS® laser‑guidance kit provides reliable precision‑guided munitions across missions and platforms, delivered quickly to meet evolving operational demands.
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Small UAS: Accelerating situational awareness on every level
There’s a renaissance in small UAS for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, both in the way they’re procured and deployed.
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An Army helicopter takes on new roles, including as a FLRAA testbed
The role of rotary wing aircraft in a 21st century security environment include operations in multi-domain operations and Joint All Domain Command and Control.
Changing the battlefield with quadcopters and fixed-wing VTOLS
There’s a new battlespace called “air-ground littoral” where quadcopters and fixed-wing VTOLs now dominate.
Army plans for Black Hawk to be Future Vertical Lift testbed for launched effects and autonomy
The Army has received its first two ITEP engines, and a re-engined Black Hawk will fly in late FY25/early FY26.
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From requirement-driven to market-ready: Rethinking how defense technology reaches the warfighter
As threats continue to evolve, speed will increasingly depend on what is already available when the need emerges.
The cybersecurity plan for what to do when adversaries breach the network
Cybersecurity leaders from the DoD CIO, USINDOPACOM, and APL discuss how they’re addressing the challenge in a Breaking Defense webinar.
How tactical units are filling their need for ISR and first–person view unmanned systems
The Defense Innovation Unit will now conduct an annual competition for sUAS and quadcopters to either stay on the Blue List or be added to it, Blue UAS Project Lead Trent Emeneker told Breaking Defense.
Beyond-line-of-sight comms for multi domain operations
Satellite constellations in proliferated LEO and a new emphasis on mature capabilities like troposcatter is creating network resilience.
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Enterprise training is key for the Army to train as it fights
The Army’s next training systems contract, called Warfighter Training Readiness Solution, adds enterprise training for multi-domain operations.
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Why Bigger Fences Aren’t Enough in the Age of Drones
Traditional thinking about how to protect facilities must adapt to new threats such as drones or downstream attacks.
How the Army is driving enterprise training across five warfighting domains and three dimensions
An enterprise change in some corps-level training moves higher control (HICON) from Fort Leavenworth to the service component command.
The difference between artificial intelligence and machine learning and why it matters
A Breaking Defense webinar with experts from CDAO, APL, and CNAS gets into the question of defining artificial intelligence vs machine learning.
Why ground robotics are now critical in modern combat
Autonomy in the pursuit of interoperability is today’s path for ground robotics.
The state of European security is about procurement, interoperability, and air and missile defense
Responding to threats to European and NATO security, nations are buying fifth-generation fighters and standoff weapons.