The 32-members of NATO on July 10 formally declared Ukraine on an “irreversible” path to membership in the Western military alliance, offering a bare but more binding assurance of protection once its war with Russia ends. NATO member countries individually and in July 10’s joint statement from their summit in Washington announced a series of steps aimed at bolstering Ukraine’s defenses.
The Biden administration will resume shipments of 500-pound bombs to Israel, which were initially part of a package of weapons held up over concerns about their use in Gaza, where Israeli forces have been accused of using heavy munitions in densely populated areas, according to a U.S. official.
Jordan has emerged as a possible future operator of A-10 Warthog ground attack aircraft. The U.S. Air Force is planning to stop flying the venerable Warthogs operationally before the end of the decade. The impending retirement of the type in U.S. service has already prompted discussions about sending A-10s elsewhere, including to Ukraine.
A former Air Force civilian engineer who led maintenance at Robins Air Force Base removed a crucial inspection procedure that could have identified a worn propeller blade before it caused a KC-130 Hercules crash in 2017 that killed 16 troops, federal prosecutors allege in newly released court documents.
After years of failing to meet NATO’s military spending targets, most of the alliance’s 32 members entered the 75th anniversary summit touting a statistic: more than two-thirds now meet the minimum threshold. ... Still, some allies on Europe’s eastern flank and Republicans in the U.S. say that’s not enough. They’re pushing to increase the alliance’s defense spending targets beyond 2 percent, given the war in Ukraine and the risk of an American conflict with China.
Three years ago, when NATO leaders met in Brussels and issued the alliance’s first strategy for artificial intelligence, Russian President Vladimir Putin hadn’t yet tried to blitzkrieg Kyiv and OpenAI’s ChatGPT hadn’t yet taken the internet by storm. Today, in a very different world, as NATO leaders met in Washington to discuss the threat from Moscow, they’ve also issued a revised AI strategy that puts the new phenomenon of generative AI as a top priority.
Following the leak of national security secrets and other high-profile, nefarious uses of the platform in recent years, researchers are grappling with what to think of the platform’s small but headline-grabbing dark side, and many disagree on whether Discord as a company is doing enough to root out bad actors.
In a move to collectively confront adversarial threats to NATO’s communications and computer networks that continue to intensify, allies are set to formalize and unveil plans this week for the creation of a new, first-of-its-kind integrated cyber defense center, the White House revealed.
X-Bow Systems, a space technology startup specializing in solid rocket motors and small launch vehicles, has secured $70 million in Series B funding to expand its production capabilities and complete a new manufacturing facility in Texas.
Following this week’s NATO summit, the 32 allies are planning to build a first-ever commercial space strategy to speed new technologies to their militaries—based in part on recommendations put together by a government-industry working group sponsored by NATO and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Russian electronic countermeasures have significantly reduced the precision of GPS-guided missiles fired by HIMARS systems, the weapon credited for reversing the momentum of the war in Ukraine’s favor in the summer of 2022, Ukrainian military officials say.
A supplement long used in fitness circles to beef up muscles may be coming to a Meal, Ready to Eat, or MRE, near you. Congress could soon ask the military to look at including creatine in MREs, the staples of field nutrition across the military.
