The Pentagon’s planned Autonomous Warfare Command (AUTOWARCOM), expected to launch by October 2027, aims to accelerate the development and deployment of autonomous and robotic systems. According to De
The Pentagon’s Tradewinds program gives AI companies a faster route to defense contracts. Managed by the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO), the initiative requires companies to s
Anduril has secured a U.S. Navy contract worth up to $2.9 billion to support submarine production, marking a significant expansion beyond its established focus on autonomous drones and other defense t
The US Department of Defence has stopped using Anthropic’s artificial intelligence tools after designating the company a national-security supply-chain risk, a Pentagon official told the BBC. Defence
The Pentagon’s plans for modernizing polygraph examinations have become unclear after officials issued statements that appear to conflict with earlier documents and presentations. Declassified slides
The United States has withdrawn all of its bombers—believed to be around a dozen B-1 Lancers—from RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire following a counter-terrorism investigation and reports of a new threa
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a Sept. 28 memorandum, publicly released Friday, directing the Defense Department to accelerate deployment of counter-drone technologies across military bases, cr
Joint Interagency Task Force 401 is using artificial intelligence to analyze data collected during Falcon Peak 26.2, a month-long exercise testing commercial counter-drone technologies along the U.S.
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The article critiques Secretary Hegseth’s “State of the Force 2.0” announcements, especially Project Agincourt, a proposed pathway toward a four-star command overseeing autonomous weapons. Although He
Matthew Ford argues that military innovation has become an institutional substitute for strategy, repeating the “hammer-and-nail” problem identified by John Nagl in Iraq. The US military entered the S
The Pentagon plans to establish the Autonomous Warfare Command, or AutoWarCom, a new four-star organization with service-like authority to accelerate the development and deployment of autonomous and r
The Pentagon plans to establish the Autonomous Warfare Command, or AutoWarCom, a new four-star organization with service-like authorities to accelerate the development and deployment of autonomous and
Matthew Ford argues that contemporary military innovation has become a strategic dead end, repeating the institutional error identified by John Nagl during the Iraq War: armed forces interpret new pro
The U.S. Navy has selected Boeing to develop its F/A-XX next-generation carrier-based fighter, ending a contentious competition against Northrop Grumman. Lockheed Martin was reportedly eliminated in a
A federal appeals court has upheld the Pentagon’s decision to designate Anthropic a national security supply chain risk, allowing the Defense Department to exclude the AI company from military contrac
The passage reports that negotiations at a United Nations conference in Switzerland over a treaty regulating lethal autonomous weapons ended with major safeguards being removed. According to three sou
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station will receive new counter-drone capabilities in the coming weeks from Joint Interagency Task Force 401, according to Col. Brian Chatman, commander of Space Launch Del
U.S. military officials serving along the southern border say drone use by Mexican criminal cartels poses a “very real” and increasingly sophisticated threat. Speaking during Northern Command’s Falcon
Military personnel data exposed in breach, agency warns
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A vulnerability in a Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) file-sharing system exposed unencrypted personal information to unauthorized users, according to a breach notification letter reviewed by *Mili
The Defense Department’s enterprise generative AI platform, GenAI.mil, has expanded rapidly since its launch in December. Approximately 1.7 million of the department’s roughly 3 million personnel—incl
The U.S. Air Force is preparing to give artificial intelligence and autonomous systems greater responsibility in military operations, but leaders recognize that widespread adoption depends on building
SpaceX and Tesla’s planned “Terafab” semiconductor manufacturing initiative has encountered a trademark dispute with Tera-Print, a small U.S. company that has used the “Tera-Fab” name for roughly a de
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U.S. national security officials warn that Russian and Chinese cyber operators have penetrated or mapped critical American infrastructure, including the electrical grid. Although the attackers have no
A UN fact-finding mission has concluded that there are reasonable grounds to believe the United States committed war crimes in Iran during military strikes on 28 February. The investigation focused on
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The article examines contrasting U.S. and Chinese approaches to artificial intelligence development and risk. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has urged the United States to slow frontier AI development, wa
Witnesses before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission warned that human approval may not provide meaningful control over AI-assisted military decisions. As AI increasingly supports target identifica
New photographs obtained by CBS News reportedly show extensive damage to U.S. military facilities, aircraft, vehicles and buildings across the Middle East following Iranian missile and drone attacks.
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A recent post discusses the growing concerns around procuring AI agents for military use, especially within command-and-control (C2) systems. It references a reported dispute between U.S. Department o
The article argues that the biggest danger of AI in the U.S. military is not a “Terminator”-style robot uprising, but the gradual erosion of human judgment. While AI could improve efficiency, reduce e
Emelia S. Probasco argues that the main danger of AI in the U.S. military is not a “Skynet”-style robot rebellion, but the erosion of human judgment. She says AI can weaken soldiers’ and commanders’ a
Reports from the Washington Post and New York Times say Donald Trump was secretly moved from one aircraft to another in Turkey last month because of a credible Iranian assassination threat, despite th
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U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), with the Defense Health Agency, commissioned an epidemiological study to determine whether Special Operations Forces (SOF) personnel face different cancer ra
Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks unveiled the Pentagon’s new “Replicator” initiative, designed to counter China’s rapid military buildup by rapidly fielding thousands of autonomous systems a
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Kingsley R. Wilson (née Cortes) is an American political spokeswoman who has served as the United States Department of Defense press secretary since May 2025. She was born in 1998 or 1999 and is the d
The Defense Department is seeking nearly $30 billion in fiscal 2027 to modernize its AI computing infrastructure and expand its use of next-generation supercomputers. The proposed $29.5 billion invest
The U.S. Defense Department has signed new agreements with Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Reflection AI to deploy their AI technologies and models on classified military networks for “law
Google has reportedly signed a classified agreement allowing the U.S. Department of Defense to use its AI models for “any lawful government purpose,” according to The Information. The deal comes short
Mapping the military AI industry | SIPRI
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The SIPRI backgrounder explains that industry involvement is increasingly seen as essential to efforts to govern the responsible military use of AI, including UN-led initiatives and the REAIM summit.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has requested the resignation and immediate retirement of Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George, signaling a shift in leadership aimed at aligning with Hegseth's and Pre
The ongoing conflict involving the U.S., Israel, and Iran has highlighted the increasing role of artificial intelligence (AI) in warfare. As tensions escalated, the U.S. government recently faced a co
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