A poster at the Pentagon, Dec. 12, 2025, lets employees know that a new artificial intelligence tool is available to use at the War Department, and that employees are highly encouraged to use it. (Credit: C. Todd Lopez, DOW)
You can’t evaluate what you can’t inspect. You can’t defend a decision you can’t explain. You can’t correct a failure you can’t see. And an answer you…
A B-52H Stratofortress assigned to the 419th Flight Test Squadron is undergoes pre-flight procedures at Edwards Air Force Base, California, Aug. 8. The aircraft conducted a captive-carry flight test of the AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon Instrumented Measurement Vehicle 2 at the Point Mugu Sea Range off the Southern California coast. (Air Force photo by Giancarlo Casem)
The OTA comes as SOCOM is fast-tracking frontier AI capabilities to solve real-world operational challenges and free up its leaders to focus on the most complex strategic…
Gabe Chiulli, acting Army chief information officer, answers questions about Project Gatekeeper during a media roundtable at the Association of the United States Army Annual Meeting and Exposition in Washington, D.C., Oct. 13, 2026. Chiulli provided details about the initiative and its role in advancing the Army’s information technology capabilities. (U.S. Army photo by Jason Amadi)
Soon, Project Gatekeeper’s security testing will be powered by frontier AI models and the wider public will be able to access the platform using Login.Gov credentials.
Participants discuss how emerging tech can drive breakthroughs in lethality at GDIT’s ‘Battlespace of the Future’ summit. Panelists include, from left: DefenseScoop Editor-in-Chief Jon Harper, General Dynamics Ordnance & Tactical Systems’ Chris Haynes, Army Lt. Col. William Taylor, Army’s Bhavanjot Singh, Marine Corps Col. Matthew Ritchie, and Rep. Patrick Harrigan (NC-10). (Scoop News Group photo)
U.S. Army Soldiers performing preventive maintenance checks and services using Army Communications-Electronics Command’s AI-Assisted Maintenance system. (U.S. Army photo by Sean Kief)
U.S. Navy Fleet Master Chief Lateef Compton, U.S. Central Command senior enlisted leader, visits Airmen and Guardians in the CENTCOM area of responsibility, Jan. 7, 2026. Compton visited multiple sites around the base and had lunch with Airmen and Guardians assigned to U.S. Space Forces – Central. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Devlin Bishop)
U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Eric E. Austin, the commanding general of Marine Corps Combat Development Command and deputy commandant for Combat Development and Integration, Portfolio Acquisition Executive, Marine Corps, provides his remarks at the Mavin Smart System Summit at Quantico Corporate Center, Va., Aug. 25, 2026. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Magdalena Tochimani-Fuentes)
Michael Coulter, then-CEO of Hanwha Global Defense, speaks during the Warsaw Security Forum 2025 in Warsaw, Poland, on September 30, 2025. (Photo by Marek Antoni Iwanczuk/NurPhoto via Getty Images).
Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) pulls into Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan Oct. 16, 2026. U.S. 7th Fleet, the Navy’s largest forward-deployed numbered fleet, routinely interacts and operates with allies and partners in preserving a free and open Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Hannah Fry)
U.S. service members and Kuwaiti Land Forces participate in the game operation cyber justice, an event of the Best Cyber Warrior Challenge at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, May 15, 2019. (Army Reserve photo by Sgt. Christopher Lindborg)
U.S. Army Spc. Daniel Austin, with the 173rd Airborne Mobile Brigade Combat Team, patrols through a field as part of a situational training exercise. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Sgt. Addison Shinn)
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Steven Walker and Sgt. Siegfred Velarde, 1st Space Brigade, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, plot points before a land navigation event during the USASMDC Best Squad Competition at Fort Bliss, Texas, July 29, 2026. (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Lamar Green)