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Secure comms with allies is hard. The Pentagon wants to change that

The department is working on an effort to streamline a complex set of classified networks they use with allies and partners.

Air Force using Sentinel money to retrofit Qatar jet

The move won’t further delay the troubled ICBM program, SECAF says.

Army expects to make more than a million artillery shells next year

Armaments chief says new factories, streamlined processes will hit goal just a few months late.

The Navy’s dynamic sub-hunting duo

Future operations will lean on manned-unmanned platforms—MQ-4C Triton and Boeing’s P-8A—and a single digital dashboard.

F-47 will have 70% better combat radius than F-22, Air Force says

Infographic says service plans to buy at least 185 of the sixth-gen fighter.

Golden Dome push sets stage for telecom battle over spectrum access

The White House’s project to beef up domestic missile defense could lead to a regulatory and legal fight over radio frequencies.

Make big things small and small things big: SOCOM’s gear wishlist

As special operations forces prepare to take on a wider set of missions, their tech needs are growing more ambitious.

Chilling effects: What one Army unit learned about cold-weather drone warfare

Frozen propellers and short-lived batteries are just some of the challenges these grunts faced during training in Europe.

Air Force begins ground testing for CCA program

The service has picked Beale Air Force Base in California as the CCA base.

Ospreys won’t return to full flight operations until 2026

The program office expects upgraded gearboxes to begin arriving in January.

The Army has rolled out a generative AI workspace to improve daily operations

And because those tools guzzle cloud compute, the service is also looking at ways to cut costs and maintain efficiency.

Microsoft’s AI offering approved for all Defense operations

Azure OpenAI is now available for the Defense Department at all government data classification levels.

Space Force plans to put a multisatellite ‘carrier’ into orbit

Gravitics gets an up-to-$60 million contract to build a satellite that can spit out other satellites as needed.

Boeing wins Air Force’s next-gen fighter contract

The company beat out Lockheed to build NGAD, which has been named the F-47.