The White House is finalizing a plan to ease some restrictions on how Ukraine can use U.S.-donated weapons and better protect itself from Russian missiles, according to a Western official and two other people familiar with the discussions.
North Korea has continued to supply advanced short-range ballistic missiles to Russia in defiance of sanctions meant to prevent Pyongyang from developing such weapons and Moscow from importing them, according to a report by a weapons research group.
Russia is evading sanctions to acquire U.S.-made semiconductors and weapons components for use in Ukraine—largely through China, according to a new Senate report that led lawmakers to grill chip-making executives on Sept. 10.
In conflicts with peer and near-peer adversaries, U.S. air crews will be contested in the air and on the airwaves. They’ll face not just kinetic attacks, but also radars, advanced air defense systems, and other electromagnetic effects seeking to disrupt their missions.
Inspectors general from the Defense Department and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency launched a new, joint evaluation that will comprehensively gauge how Maven—the U.S. military’s pioneering and still-evolving computer vision program—is being integrated into real-world GEOINT operations.
The U.S. Army announced that it has selected two drones, the Ghost X from Anduril Industries and the C-100 from Performance Drone Works, to proceed with its Company-Level Small Uncrewed Aircraft System program. The dual contracts span a 10-year ordering period, with the first tranche valued at $14.5 million. While both systems are commercially available and not designed specifically for this mission, the Army said it anticipates that future “operational requirements” could drive design changes.
As geopolitical tensions extend beyond Earth’s atmosphere, the U.S. Space Force is sharpening its focus on dominating the electromagnetic spectrum. Space electronic warfare—the art and science of protecting and denying satellite signals—has become a key part of how modern militaries fight and defend. Examples include jamming satellite communications, disrupting Global Positioning System (GPS) signals, or even disabling spacecraft through targeted electromagnetic pulses.
As entrepreneurs, researchers, and executives gather this week at the Quantum World Congress outside Washington, how can anyone cut through the hype and figure out which nascent technology has real potential? That’s why DARPA has issued an open challenge to anyone developing a quantum computer to submit themselves to rigorous government testing, led by a self-described “quantum skeptic.”
As inspirational plaques go, the one that hangs inside the 354th Fighter Squadron isn’t pretty. Just a rough slab of plywood, cracked in the corner, with some hand-drawn letters. But its message is simple: Our mission is an 18-year-old with a rifle. ATTACK!
Dozens of U.S. Airmen in England assisted with an archaeological dig earlier this year aimed at finding the remains of an Army pilot lost there during World War II, and in the process helped shine a light on one of the war’s most ambitious and ill-fated secret operations against the Nazis.