The United States will withdraw most troops from Iraq over the next two years but leave a small residual force in the northern Kurdistan region under a plan negotiated by American and Iraqi officials, who disclosed the deal this week.
The Pentagon’s rare move to keep two Navy aircraft carriers in the Middle East over the past several weeks has now finished, as the USS Theodore Roosevelt is heading home, according to U.S. officials.
Antiquated information technology and modern capabilities are colliding at the Defense Department, where officials are using artificial intelligence to try to make old-timey software code more user-friendly for IT modernization.
Angela Shefield, Director of AI Programs at SAIC, and retired Air Force Col. John “BigDogg” Rhone, SAIC’s C5ISR Programs Lead, explain how artificial intelligence and machine learning are evolving beyond bespoke applications and how SAIC is helping to enable next-generation AI capabilities for critical problem sets like accelerating kill chains and enhancing command and control.
The U.S. is looking to West African countries to counter regional terrorist threats after American forces were told to leave Niger and Chad, the commander of U.S. military forces in Africa said. “We’re in talks with Cote d’Ivoire and in talks with Ghana and Benin as well as we start to reset and recalibrate some of our assets,” the commander of U.S. Africa Command, Marine Corps Gen. Michael Langley, said at a press conference Sept. 12.
Tens of thousands of Defense Department service members and civilians are now using an Air Force-designed generative AI system plugged into the military's intranet, paving the way for the tool's future expansion. Launched in June, NIPRGPT—named after the Non-classified Internet Protocol Router Network used in DOD and generative pretrained transformer, the type of AI it uses—now has about 80,000 users, the Air Force Research Laboratory said.
From solar and nuclear power to more efficient systems and microgrids, the Air Force is putting more and more effort into ensuring its bases and systems have steady supplies of power that are still cost effective. Keep up with all the latest news on how the service is managing its vast energy enterprise.
As the space race intensifies and geopolitical tensions rise, the Pentagon is looking for technologies to enhance its understanding of activities in outer space. The Space Security and Defense Program (SSDP), a joint initiative of the Department of Defense and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, on Sept. 11 issued a request for information (RFI) on advanced space domain awareness technologies.
The U.S. Space Force should play a greater role in tracking factors related to human security, like food production, climate trends or energy distribution, for military decision-makers, according to a new report from RAND Corp., a federally funded research center.
Lockheed Martin and the Pentagon are unlikely to reach a deal on the next lot of F-35 stealth fighters by the end of this month, potentially leading to a $1 billion cost “impact” for the defense giant this quarter, a top Lockheed executive said Sept. 12.
Northrop Grumman might seek to join the competition to build the Air Force’s sixth-generation fighter jet if the service rethinks its original requirements for the platform, the company’s CEO said Sept. 12.
A year and seven months after 700 gallons of fuel spilled at a Space Force observatory located atop a sacred Hawaiian volcano on Maui, officials are still finalizing a plan to remediate the site, and the delay is angering local government officials. ... Additionally, while that contamination is still being cleaned up, the service is pushing plans for a new project that would add seven more telescopes to Haleakalā that received fierce condemnation from the Maui County Council.
Polaris Dawn just made history again. SpaceX’s private crew of four astronauts performed the world's first commercial spacewalk while soaring high above Earth on Sept. 12 during the third day of a five-day trip to Earth orbit. “SpaceX, back at home we have a lot of work to do, but from here it looks like a perfect world,” Polaris Dawn commander Jared Isaacman, the American billionaire who financed the mission, said as he looked down on Earth while standing mostly outside the Dragon hatch.