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![P-8 LRASM testing expected to wrap this summer, Boeing official says](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2024/05/p8-in-flight-scaled-e1716572561901-225x150.jpg)
Boeing will also soon begin flight testing a multimission pod developed with internal funds, according to company official Jon Spore.
By Michael Marrow![Space Force working with SpaceX to closely watch falling Starlinks](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2022/08/220830_starlink_sky_streak_GettyImages-1231167449-scaled-e1661980807658-225x150.jpg)
The Space Force today circulated a fact sheet explaining what the service called a “proactive” and “collaborative” effort to keep tabs on Starlink re-entries as SpaceX begins to de-orbit some 100 early variants.
By Theresa Hitchens![Skynode S: Auterion autonomy kit lets attack drones fly through jamming](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2024/06/GettyImages-2157854186-scaled-e1719597927497-225x150.jpg)
Just announced on Thursday but already quietly combat-tested in Ukraine, the palm-sized Skynode S card makes small drones much less dependent on an uninterrupted wireless link to a human remote controller.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.![NAVSEA is in its ‘survey era,’ writes top civilian in email loaded with Taylor Swift lyrics](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2021/12/tswift-scaled-225x150.jpg)
“This survey will take you less time than listening to “All Too Well” (Taylor’s Version) 10 min edition,” promised Chris Miller, executive director of US Naval Sea Systems Command, in an email to employees.
By Valerie Insinna![J-6 to potentially add CDAO to implement digital modernization campaign](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2022/05/220524_AI_brain_icon_GettyImages-1296904409-scaled-e1663074689851-225x150.jpg)
“Currently we have a CDO and I serve as the CIO, but we’re looking at ways to reorganize the Joint Staff to get after what I think is some open field running and a real opportunity for us to continue to evolve,” Gen. David Isaacson, director of C4 and Chief Information Officer of the J-6, said.
By Carley Welch![House pushes forward FY25 spending bill after blocking amendment to cut F-35s](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2024/06/f-35-225x150.jpg)
An amendment that would have cut 18 F-35s was blocked by the GOP-led House Rules Committee, which decides which amendments are debated on the floor.
By Valerie Insinna![In Northern Israel, emptied villages and talk of war in Lebanon](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2024/06/GettyImages-2158640825-scaled-e1719509167532-225x150.jpg)
Breaking Defense spent June 23 and 24 along Israel’s border with Lebanon, speaking to a mix of Israel Defense Forces officers, experts and security officials from the communities.
By Seth J. Frantzman![Space Force faces ‘bellicose’ PLA willing to risk escalation: RAND](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2022/08/220810_china_taiwan_missile_launch_GettyImages-1242316355-e1660147176176-225x150.jpg)
The RAND study warns that due to “inflated threat perceptions” about US intentions, Chinese leaders tend to “interpret U.S.-led efforts to establish crisis communication mechanisms or broader space norms as tools to control China’s behavior.”
By Theresa Hitchens![Calvelli details plans to better ‘integrate’ Unified Data Library into Space Force ops](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2024/02/240228_calvelli_afa_warfare_8238576-scaled-e1709151317344-225x150.jpg)
The NDAA instructed Air Force space acquisition czar Frank Calvelli to detail a UDL integration plan, following criticism from the Government Accountability Office, as well as to explain the Space Force’s process “to regularly identify and evaluate commercial space situational awareness capabilities.”
By Theresa Hitchens
In this op-ed, Joshua Haecker explains how AI and LLMs can help the Intelligence Community use unclassified information, an often untapped source.
By Joshua Haecker