CEO Thomas Akers told Breaking Defense that the company’s recent acquisition by Norwegian defense firm Kongsberg offers “an immediate step change” for the startup firm, whose portfolio now spans from a reusable drone interceptor to a low-cost cruise missile.
An open systems architecture allows the Army and its industry partners to plug new and different software and hardware capabilities into the platform.
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Airis Rikveilis, the state secretary at Latvia’s Ministry of Defense, told Breaking Defense the military and border guards are working jointly to stem the tide of illegal entries, including via tunnels.
A request for information will be coming out in the near future, and the service is looking to make some “early selections” in the March to April timeframe for the CAML-light, Lt. Gen. Frank Lozano, PAE for Fires, said.
“What we’re building is a soldier that can adapt a piece of robotic kit to the mission, to the enemy, to the terrain,” said Maj. Gen. Jason Slider, commander of the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School.
RF sensing at greater distance gives operators more decision space to act.
A commercial prototype in a sandbox is different from deploying AI across classified networks.
Liz Miranda, Army Materiel Command's executive deputy to the commanding general, said a White House order's requirements for companies to map their supply chain down to the raw material level “is no easy task.”
Autonomy was top of mind at AUSA 2026, including in a keynote address by the secretary of defense.
Col. Kevin "Stoney" Stonerook, deputy commander of US Northern Command's Joint Task Force-Gold (JTF-Gold), said the unit's roles and responsibilities are still being ironed out.
AUSA's Annual Meeting and Expo in Washington winds down with an appearance by the defense secretary.
Architecture that linked sensors, C2, RF effects, and lasers into a distributed c-UAS kill chain.
Senior officials also revealed that the Defense Autonomous Working Group has been absorbed into a new Task Force Autonomous Warfare, which sits inside the Special Operations Command.
“It’s a challenge, again, we have to overcome, but it's part of the fiscal environment,” Gen. Clark, commander of USARPAC, said. “We have more experience operating under CR than we do with an appropriation.”
How to give soldiers awareness and targeting without adding complexity.
The service will continue working with the Lockheed Martin and Boeing-Anduril teams but also hosting “shoot-off opportunity” for additional vendors, explained Lt. Gen. Frank Lozano.