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.
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Why propulsion could be the critical piece in Golden Dome’s architecture
Throttleable systems, boost-phase interception, and new manufacturing capacity expand missile defense options.
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.
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.
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Island surge: the Army’s Next Generation Command and Control in action
Lightning Surge exercises are turning soldier feedback on NGC2 into operational software changes in days, not years.
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.
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.
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Three exercises that proved a new approach to C-UAS
Architecture that linked sensors, C2, RF effects, and lasers into a distributed c-UAS kill chain.
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.
No service can fight on its own: JADC2 demands move from self-sufficiency to interdependency
Making all-domain operations a warfighting capability means integrating, fusing, and disseminating a sensor picture appropriate for a particular theater segment, not all of them, says the Mitchell Institute’s David Deptula.
3-to-5 years from now is the danger time when the US could face both China and Russia
RUSI’s Justin Bronk has an idea of what Europe should be doing to help the US in the Indo-Pacific, and it doesn’t include sending the Charles De Gaulle.