On December 18, President Donald Trump signed into law the fiscal year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (FY26 NDAA), supporting $900.6 billion in funding. While outlining key focus areas such ...

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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has restarted a series of tabletop exercises designed to boost cybersecurity at U.S. seaports. The COVID-19 pandemic derailed the ...

Soldiers may soon be wearing equipment that physically strengthens and protects them, as well as potentially improves their cognitive abilities on the battlefield. Artillery soldiers carry heavy ...

Drug traffickers expand the use of submersible vessels to transport illicit substances as states struggle to detect them. This whack-a-mole game sees cartels improve the seaworthiness and technologies ...

Sandia National Laboratories, the multidisciplinary national security engineering labs in New Mexico, is relying on artificial intelligence (AI) more and more, reports Laura McGill, the new director ...

The explosion of publicly available and commercially available information that is geotagged, time-boxed and capable of being rapidly aggregated has brought attributes to open-source intelligence ...

Communications using a light beam isn’t a new idea, even outside of “Star Trek,” “Star Wars” and other similar tales of fantasy. Scientist and science fiction writer Arthur Clarke forecasted ...

Among the most pervasive changes of the past 60 years has been the cost of living. No costs or salaries could remain static during six decades of capitalism, as 1946 saw the beginning of the removal ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) development is at the center of geopolitical competition as both the United States and China seek AI supremacy. The United States has traditionally been the leader in AI ...

As artificial intelligence (AI)-based systems become more prevalent and sophisticated than ever before, defense officials are exploring new ways to ensure that these models are protected against ...

The four-year-old U.S. Space Force is trying out a new organizational concept that leaders purport will provide greater readiness in the face of growing competition in the space domain. As part of the ...