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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.

Space Force ramps up counter-drone defense at Cape Canaveral, Eastern Range

“It's giving me a holistic coverage over the Cape, as opposed to pockets of coverage that I have today,” Space Launch Delta 45 Commander Col. Brian Chatman told Breaking Defense.

Department of the Air Force announces new generative AI program: NIPRGPT

NIPRGPT will help airmen and guardians with correspondence, research and coding tasks all while being connected to a secure online environment, according to an announcement.

Air Force, DIU pick 4 companies to compete for drone test vehicle

Anduril Industries, Integrated Solutions for Systems, Leidos Dynetics and Zone 5 Technologies will now compete to carry their drone prototypes into production.

Take 2: Kratos aims for prime status on second CCA ‘increment’

“So there's a sweet spot for where we can prime it and there's a stretch area. ... What I hope is you see the sweet spot increases and the stretch area is moving to higher” program sizes and complexities, Kratos’s Steve Fendley told Breaking Defense.

General Atomics debuts new XQ-67A Air Force sensing drone

Details of the AFRL’s Off-Board Sensing Station program remain highly classified, though the effort is expected to field an unmanned aircraft that can fly ahead of fighters and relay targeting information and other threat data back.

Quantum clocks could revolutionize precision warfare within a decade: experts

Within five to 10 years, clocks “a million times” more precise than GPS could improve accuracy, communications, and electronic warfare – without relying on an easily jammed satellite signal.

From prototypes to operations: In record-breaking year, DIU transitioned 17 new tech

The Defense Innovation Unit in FY22 awarded $203 million in prototype contracts across 165 vendors, started 52 new projects and saw a 47 percent increase in the total number of companies competing for a contract, according to DIU's annual report.

3 keys to bridging ‘valley of death’: Get involved early, cut out middlemen and pray Congress works

“So you can have something that the chief wants that will solve the problem, but if you don't have a way to sell it in a way that the government can buy it – and then the challenge is not, you know, in many cases the buyer isn't the customer,” James Guerts said. “And so I think where the services are really working hard is to compress that so the buyer and the customer are more closely aligned."

DoD Kicks Off New Hypersonic Program; F-18 To Get Hypersonic Cruise Missile

The Pentagon will retain strict security protocols to ensure “we’re not training Chinese scientists that are going to go help their programs" said Gillian Bussey, head of the Joint Hypersonic Transition Office