One Army staff sergeant said he planned on putting his $1,776 check from the federal government into his retirement fund. A longtime infantryman said he would invest the money in the stock market. A military spouse said she intends to pay down credit-card debt her family has incurred from basic expenses like food and baby supplies.
“The assumption that large-scale acquisition of AI-enabled drones will strengthen U.S. defenses against China is misguided. For one thing, lessons from the war in Ukraine—an attritional, inconclusive struggle between two fundamentally land-centric armed forces—often do not apply directly to other kinds of conflicts,” writes Justin Bronk, senior research fellow for airpower and technology at the Royal United Services Institute.
Anduril and Boeing are coming together to jointly offer a new interceptor for the U.S. Army, combining the new entrant’s solid rocket motor development with the legacy prime’s established interceptor experience.
President Donald Trump’s administration has announced a massive package of arms sales to Taiwan valued at more than $10 billion that includes medium-range missiles, howitzers and drones, drawing an angry response from China.
The Missile Defense Agency is suffering from a gap between procurement and delivery of new Theater High Altitude Area Defense missile defense interceptors, with missiles bought in 2021 not slated to show up in the agency’s inventory until April 2027, experts warned.
A little over a week after GenAI.mil’s rollout, service members and defense officials have met the Pentagon’s newest hub for commercial AI tools with mixed reception—and many questions.
In the wake of the recent release of the Defense Department’s new enterprise artificial intelligence platform, the Air Force is deactivating its experimental generative AI chatbot known as NIPRGPT months earlier than originally planned, DefenseScoop has learned.
Iran has appointed two new senior air force commanders amid a military leadership reshuffling that followed the 12-day war with Israel, during which Israeli forces quickly established air superiority and destroyed scores of Iranian air defense systems.
Royal Canadian Air Force Maj. Gen. Chris McKenna knows more than just about anyone how F-35A Joint Strike Fighters will integrate into both the RCAF and the North American Aerospace Defense Command. He is the commander of 1 Canadian Air Division, operational commander for the Canadian NORAD Region and the Canadian Joint Forces Air Component Commander. As such, it’s his job to figure out what to do with these fifth-generation fighters and how to provide the infrastructure they require.
The Pentagon will have to provide summaries of nearly three years’ worth of internal safety investigations under the annual defense policy bill, a provision inserted to force transparency amid a rise in military aviation mishaps.
The U.S. Navy launched a one-way attack drone this week from a littoral combat ship, marking the first time a suicide drone was deployed from a U.S. vessel at sea. A Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System drone, known as a LUCAS drone, was launched from the flight deck of the USS Santa Barbara, an Independence-class littoral combat ship currently operating in the Arabian Gulf.
It’s a hectic time of year, and the service member in your life might be difficult to shop for. If you’re scrambling at the last minute to get something wrapped under the tree or stuffed in a stocking, you’ve found the right list.
