From the skies over Ukraine, to Chinese cyber attacks, to bureaucratic battlefields inside the Pentagon, artificial intelligence has grown from an experiment or niche product to an increasingly routine tool of military organizations.
Among other provisions in the FY26 NDAA, congressional authorizers would direct the defense secretary to explore possibilities for recapitalizing the military services’ executive airlift fleets.
The Sixth Domain is not defined by geography. It’s a new kind of conflict in which autonomy and networked systems allow thousand-dollar consumer electronics to destroy multi-million-dollar conventional weapons systems.
In the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America, the position of Director of National Intelligence, (DNI) was created to close the gaps in the US Intelligence Community.
“The number of detections are way up [and] the number of models that we have are way up, [but] with the same level of compute that you had in 2017,” said Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth. “It starts to slow down. We are already seeing evidence of that.”
NGA chief Frank Whitworth defended his agency’s role in Ground Moving Target Indicator operations to Breaking Defense, as sources say there’s tension behind the scenes.
"Commercial analytics-as-a-service, or the purchase of analysis vice pixels, means that we can integrate commercial capabilities faster into our existing products and services (e.g., object detection)," an NGA spokesperson told Breaking Defense.
Breaking Defense Europe will launch May 4 with Tim Martin and Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo as co-editors.
"Russia's need for economic support in the face of new sanctions combined with China's need for energy and Arctic influence make them logical partners," says the report published through the NGA's Tearline project.
One senior official said he wants his agency to have the urgency about China the way the US had urgency about counterterrorism after 9/11.
Space Force is not a voting member of the new(ish) IC Commercial Space Council to improve coordination on commercial space policy -- but NRO and NGA are.
The new policy is inconsistent with efforts by DoD and NGA to expand the trusted supplier base by better integrating allied firms into their acquisition chains, critics say.
Government can’t stop to update systems, so modernization has to happen without interruptions.
"I think before you hand off the ball, let's make sure there won't be a fumble -- and the Space Force has a lot on it's plate right now," Rep. Jim Cooper says.
The goal is to have an improved version of the Data Transformation Services (DTS) system up and running on classified NGA networks by next February, the agency's request for information (RFI) says.
"Now we're just really working out the details for the timing that that will happen, and how frankly how it will happen," Lt. Gen. Daniel Karbler, Army SMDC commander, says.
"There is very clearly an unmet demand for complimentary commercial SAR here in the States," Eric Jensen, president of ICEYE US, says.