“We’re not letting anybody go, we’re not doing any redundancies,” Applied Intuition co-founder Qasar Younis told Breaking Defense. Instead his firm, long focused on unmanned ground vehicles, is eager to add EpiSci’s expertise in aerial drones and unmanned watercraft.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.How to create a unified, resilient battlespace
When it comes to a common operating picture, not everyone needs the same equipment. What they need is the same situational awareness.
“The world really is looking to us on this,” said Lauryn Williams, former chief of staff in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy.
By Carley Welch
“This constrained, highly dynamic, and adversarial-susceptible tactical environment will be a challenge to implement ZT solutions that meet mission needs,” the RFI stated.
By Carley Welch
The Diehl statement did not explain the defining features of the Block II upgrade, sharing only that the missile will be “improved continuously and will continue to set benchmarks with new capabilities in its original air-to-air role.”
By Tim Martin
The procurement of the new systems for the F-16s is part of a much larger process the Ministry of Defense has embarked upon since the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas.
By Seth J. Frantzman
“New warships are not coming. New aircraft are not coming in that [2027] timeline,” Chief Technology Officer of Task Force Hopper, Lt. Artem Sherbinin, said. “But software is.”
By Carley Welch
Accurate sensors are critical for armor units under fire
Maneuver formations face multifaceted threats that include kinetic force-on-force and non-kinetic effects such as electronic warfare.
Moving masses of military materiel requires managing masses of data, from automated Pentagon logistics feeds to late-night Signal chats with Ukrainian officers. Army Materiel Command’s latest digital tracking tool: blockchain.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“I can’t have every fleet commander buying their software or their robot. I mean, some of that can happen, obviously, but we do have to settle up,” said Director of the Integrated Warfare (N9I) office, Rear Adm. Christopher Sweeney.
By Carley Welch
The fear among industry now is that this move is just the first in what would amount to a Pentagon-wide halt on new awards, for an indefinite period of time.
By Ashley Roque, Valerie Insinna and Aaron Mehta
In a new executive order, President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to move forward on missile defense, though the details are still thin.
By Ashley Roque
Here’s everything you need to know about the spectrum battle between DoD and industry, which offices control the issues, and which way the Trump administration may be leaning.
By Theresa Hitchens and Carley Welch
In a new letter, Linden Blue, CEO of General Atomics’ aeronautic systems division, becomes the second industry figure to publicly issue suggestions to DOGE.
By Valerie Insinna
Self-driving cars still get into accidents on highways, an environment for which there is abundant data to train algorithms, expert Paul Scharre said. “What is the training data set we have for nuclear war?”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
In an exclusive op-ed, Rep. Don Bacon says Congress, industry and the executive branch need to stop hiding behind the word “innovation” and start actually producing systems.
By Rep. Don Bacon