U.S. Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT) has revealed that its unmanned task force, Task Force 59, began operational testing of a new unmanned surface vessel in the Gulf of Aqaba… Continue reading "US Naval Forces Central Command Begins Operational Testing Of New Saildrone Explorer USV"
On 9 November, several UGVs, large and small, built for various tasks, gathered in Ankara for the Robotic Technologies Ceremony. The Unmanned Ground Vehicles and Military Robotic Technologies Ceremony was… Continue reading "Turkish-Made Unmanned Ground Vehicles To Go Into Serial Production"
Former Chief Software Officer of the United States Air Force and Space Force, Nicolas Chaillan, now says that he was misquoted in an interview he made in the Financial Times… Continue reading "Former Air Force Chief Software Officer: I Never Said We Lost The AI War"
Israel’s Ministry of Defense has selected Israel Aerospace Industries as the prime contractor and integrator for developing the concept and technologies to be used in the Israel Defense Forces’ Carmel… Continue reading "IAI Selected As Prime Contractor For Carmel AFV Program"
DARPA’s newly-announced Quantum-Inspired Classical Computing (QuICC) program will attempt to tackle a number of optimization problems the US Department of Defense (DoD) is facing by applying lessons from quantum computer… Continue reading "DARPA Hoping to Apply Quantum Computing Lessons to Optimization"
Foreign online influence campaigns have become an increasing concern for the US national security community. Beyond foreign government funded media outlets like RT, Sputnik, CGTN and Xinhua, foreign influence campaigns… Continue reading "DARPA Selects Researchers for Online Geopolitical Campaign Tracking Project"
Baykar Defense’s AKINCI Offensive Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (TİHA in Turkish) has been added to the inventory of the TSK (Turkish Armed Forces). The delivery ceremony of the AKINCI (‘Raider’ in… Continue reading "Akıncı UAV to be Delivered To The Turkish Armed Forces"
US sailors and marines across the globe are currently participating in Large Scale Exercise 2021 (LSE 2021) which kicked off on 3 August, and will run until 16 August. The… Continue reading "US Navy and Marine Corps Conducting Large Scale Exercise 2021"
When the B-52 first entered service in the early years of the Cold War, few, if anyone, expected it would go on to serve into the 2020s with talk of… Continue reading "DARPA LINC Program Enabling Military Systems to Adapt to the Unexpected"
Last week, the US Defense Advanced Project Research Agency (DARPA) revealed additional information about a host of its programs. From research on autonomous vehicle navigation in the dark to rare… Continue reading "DARPA: Autonomous Vehicles and Rare Earth Minerals"