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Yesterday, Boeing introduced a autonomous UAV designed to perform the role of a "loyal wingman to manned platforms." The press release says that the aircraft is about 38 feet long has a range of over 2,000 nauticle miles, while Defense News says it can carry unspecified weapons into combat. It...

Kalashnikov is perhaps best known for their long-running series of rifles, but recently, the Russian defense manufacturer has been making headlines with a variety of forward looking contraptions. The company recently revealed neural network-controlled gun turrets, a 4.5 ton mech, and an electric...

The NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence published a report on the challenges governments face with online security, and Wired managed to spot a particular interesting experiment within the multi-section report. As part of an experiment, the independent NATO organization used...

Intel has released video of an I/O test demo showcasing its advanced 10nm FinFet process powering the Intel 112G PAM-4 transceiver. The 112 Gbps serial transceiver links will support the demanding bandwidth requirements of future data center, enterprise, and networking environments. The new 112G...

During an interview with CNN, former Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey detailed his vision for national security. After selling his Oculus VR technology to Facebook and leaving the company he founded behind, Palmer Luckey co-founded Anduril Industries in Orange County, California. There his team...

According to a new report from the Pentagon's Inspector General (PDF Warning), which was spotted by Motherboard, the Department of Defense still has some glaring cybersecurity issues. While the Pentagon has apparently made some great strides since 2017, there are still "266 open...

The RDECOM Research Laboratory is the Army's corporate research lab (ARL) that has a stated mission to "discover, innovate and transition science and technology to ensure dominant strategic land power." Dr. Alexander Kott is the lab's chief scientist and he has handpicked the top 10 "coolest"...

Earlier this week, SpaceFlightNow reported that SpaceX made their first successful launch with a military payload. The Falcon 9 rocket carried a GPS satellite with the nickname "Vespucci" into orbit. Unlike most Falcon 9 missions, SpaceX didn't try to recover the rocket's first stage, as the...

Global Technology Integrators (GTI) is a small 12 person firm in Orlando, Florida that specializes in adding smells to VR experiences. The company has contracts to provide scents to amusements parks, U.S. Armed Forces, and others. Bringing the sense of smell to virtual reality adds to the...

We already have guns designed to take out drones, but now the U.S. Navy is working on drones that can be shot from a "gun". The Nomad UAV has 2 counter-rotating propellers that fold up, and is about 3 feet tall. The whole thing fits inside a launch tube, which is pressurized with CO2 to shoot...

While some companies are developing flying taxis from scratch, others like SkyRyse are working from the other end, trying to automate existing helicopter airframes. DARPA is taking that approach as well, as they just recently showed off the "Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System" that lets...

The Air Force already uses the private sector to throw satellites into orbit, and of course, they already have rockets for delivering warheads across the globe. But a report by Popular Mechanics suggests that the Air Force wants to use commercial rockets for a more mundane purpose: very fast...

Policy makers at the Department of Defense (DoD) are concerned with the current American landscape of innovative DMEA-accredited Trusted Foundries partners. The US government would prefer that sensitive chips for military applications be created here in America. IBM was entrusted to perform...

Following Oracle, IBM filed an official protest against the U.S. Government's decision to use a single provider for the DoD's JEDI cloud computing platform. According to IBM, "JEDI's primary flaw lies in mandating a single cloud environment for up to 10 years." Google dropped out of the bid...

Following a promise to keep their AI out of weapons, Google dropped out of the Pentagon's $10 billion cloud contract competition. The Department of Defense's Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud will need to handle massive amounts of sensitive data, and competitors are supposed to...

All objects emit heat in the form of infrared radiation, which is why militaries around the world use infrared cameras in night vision equipment. But one aspect that's frequently overlooked is the polarization of the radiation that objects emit. According to Dr. Kristan Gurton, an experimental...

The Molar Mic by Sonitus Technology is a new communications device that allows wearers to speak without an external device on the head and hear using bone conduction. The microphone clips onto the back of your teeth and makes speech during natural disasters and other extremely noisy events much...

In August, the US Marines built the world's first continuous, 3D printed concrete barracks. A joint effort between multiple US military divisions, the 500 square-foot barracks was printed in just 40 hours. The marines had to manually fill the printing machine with concrete and monitor its...

Northrop Grumman in conjunction with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced successful testing of a 100Gbps two-way data link transmission between two antennae over a 12.4 mile distance in a city environment (Los Angeles). Using this technology could enable the...

Congress is ordering the military to use reusable rockets whenever possible and they have to include the use of such vehicles in solicitation of launch contracts. Further, everyone knows SpaceX has been the champion of reusable rockets and has launched missions to the ISS as well as military...

Three misconfigured AWS S3 buckets have been discovered wide open on the public internet containing "dozens of terabytes" of social media posts and similar pages - all scraped from around the world by the US military to identify and profile persons of interest. When it rains it pours on...

Elon Musk and his SpaceX venture are continuing to rack up customers in both the commercial and military launch markets. As a matter of fact Spacecom is coming back for repeat business even though they lost a satellite last year in a launch pad explosion. It appears reusable boosters are...

I had no idea the Air Force was using cutting edge VR googles or is it a super high tech heads up display?

Elon Musk may not be happy with our government, but make no mistake that SpaceX still likes its money green. SpaceX has been making its way up the ladder for US Military space launches at it is outbidding its competitor United Launch Alliance LLC. One major reason for SpaceX’s appeal to...