Move over, Best Ranger; the Army’s looking for the best drone pilots
Move over, Best Ranger; the Army’s looking for the best drone pilots
Defense
Defense Giants Move Toward High-Volume Manufacturing to Meet Surging Space Force Demand
Boeing joins Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin in a massive shift from bespoke engineering to standardized assembly for orbital defense.
Defense
Boeing moves its defense HQ back to St. Louis
The aerospace giant’s global headquarters will remain in Arlington, Va.
Science & Tech
Space, energy and cyber venture rounds to highlight
The venture arms of Lockheed Martin and RTX, plus the intelligence community's In-Q-Tel organization get mentions in this listing.
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Why file trust fails at the tactical edge and how Zero Trust solves it
Cross-domain solutions (CDS) are designed to protect data as it moves between trust boundaries—but at the tactical edge, traditional detection-based security models often fail.
Defense
DOD’s $66B IT budget pivots to AI and efficiency
immixGroup Senior Analyst Joshua Iseler describes how DOD’s budget is evolving and where the spending priorities are.
Science & Tech
Oracle books $88M Air Force Cloud One contract
This award follows a $581 million contract with Amazon Web Services as the Air Force continues to build out its multi-cloud infrastructure.
Defense
Air Force charts new path to recompete nuclear missile support work
Instead of one big contract, the service branch will hold separate competitions for different lines of work to aid in the transition to a new ground-based system.
Defense
Three firms move ahead in Army’s future-of-flight-training helicopter training takeover
Despite Congressional concerns, the Army is sprinting to Phase III of its “Flight School Next” initiative.
Science & Tech
Pentagon leaders should have more control over services’ tech budgets, GAO suggests
Unsurprisingly, “The Departments of Army, Air Force, and Navy disagreed.”
Ideas
Space: the Final Frontier for data processing?
Earth may not be the hub for space-based communications much longer, and for good reason.
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FORTIFY YOUR DEFENSE WITH NIST-ALIGNED SOLUTIONS
Ransomware and AI-driven cyberattacks threaten mission readiness across defense, transportation, and law enforcement.
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Space-based interceptors make even less sense now
The Pentagon and its Golden Dome contractors are proposing to replace one showstopping problem with another.
Science & Tech
York Space Systems raises $629M in public offering
The 14-year-old satellite manufacturer got the valuation it wanted from Wall Street in an active year for space listings.
Science & Tech
Trump nominee to lead NSA commits to backing controversial spying law
Lt. Gen. Josh Rudd also promised to prioritize NSA efforts to protect U.S. elections.
Defense
Lockheed CEO: Air Force RQ-170 drones used in mission to capture Maduro
Missions for the “Beast of Kandahar” stealth drone are rarely acknowledged, experts say.
Defense
US developed ‘non-kinetic’ cell ahead of Venezuela mission to push cyber operations
Officials said that cyber capabilities are expected to play a central role in future U.S. military undertakings.
Defense
Northrop CEO: deal to accelerate B-21 production could arrive in months
Last year’s government shutdown delayed negotiations between the company and service. Another is looming.
Defense
ICEYE Growing in Popularity as Europe Seeks to Improve Space-Based Capability
A growing number of countries are investing in sovereign SAR satellite constellations amid a broader push for strategic autonomy in space.
Ideas
The right roadmap to defense innovation in space
The defense community faces a fundamental challenge: as requirements grow more complex, timelines expand, and adversaries seize the opportunity to accelerate their own capabilities and leapfrog the leaders.
Defense
Space Force probably needs twice as many guardians, vice chief says
The service’s budget and constellation have doubled since its founding, Gen. Shawn Bratton noted.
Defense
Space Force previews $200M ground operations support recompete
The service branch unveils a draft solicitation for its effort to hire a contractor that can aid in the prototyping and operations of satellite ground systems and satellite operations centers.
