Army, Clemson University unveil new, optionally manned Deep Orange 15 rescue vehicle
The semi-autonomous, optionally piloted, high-speed, off-road platform to be a “research platform” for cutting edge tech.
‘No time to waste’: NIST formally issues standards for defense against quantum hacking
“This is the starting gun for what may be the single largest overhaul of US government communication systems since the adoption of the Internet, as ordered by the President in National Security Memorandum 10,” said RAND scientist Edward Parker. “It will probably go on for decades and will cost billions of dollars.”
After CENTOM experiments, Army seeks more rugged counter-drone lasers to put on vehicles
The Army is pushing for companies to integrate lasers on JLTVs, while eyeing a future where ground robots don the directed energy weapons.
Commerce IG frets delays in transition of space monitoring from DoD
The IG further is urging NOAA's Office of Space Commerce to move out more aggressively to craft a plan to set binding rules to manage the ever increasing amount of on-orbit traffic — despite the fact, as pointed out to Breaking Defense by senior NOAA officials, that Congress has yet to give OSC the legal authority to do so.