In this photo illustration, the OpenAI “ChatGPT” AI-generated answer to the question “What can AI offer to humanity?” is seen on a laptop screen on February 03, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)
A U.S. Marine with III Marine Expeditionary Force familiarizes himself with maneuvering drones during the Marine Corps Attack Drone Competition on Camp Schwab, Okinawa, Japan, Dec. 7, 2025. During a two-week period, the Marine Corps Attack Drone Team trained and certified 3rd Marine Division Marines as attack drone operators, attack drone instructor, and payload specialist instructors, increasing the Division’s lethality and capacity of trained and certified attack drone operators and instructors. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Joaquin Dela Torre)
Fort Hood’s Bernie Beck gate during sun rise Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009, in Killeen. ( Nick de la Torre / Chronicle ) (Photo by Nick de la Torre/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)
A Standard Missile-3 Block IIA is fired from a Vertical Launching System on Andersen Air Force Base, Guam as part of Flight Experiment Mission-02, on December 10, 2024. (courtesy photo/released)
The organization intends to launch selected sensor and seeker prototypes into space for a demonstration no later than two years after it contracts vendors.
An F-35C Lightning II, attached to Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 314, prepares to make an arrested landing on the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) on Jan. 24, 2026. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Cesar Zavala)
The jet, an F-35C Lightning II, launched from the USS Abraham Lincoln, which was transiting the Arabian Sea roughly 500 miles from Iran’s southern coast, U.S. Central…
A member of the Rhode Island Army National Guard reviews a Soldier’s enlisted record brief (ERB) during a centralized promotion board, Feb. 12, 2025, Camp Fogarty, Rhode Island. Conducted without in-person candidates, the board relies heavily on accurate and well-written NCOERs (noncommissioned officer evaluation report) to fairly evaluate and score each promotion file. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. 1st Class Terry Rajsombath)
Secretary of the Army, Honorable Daniel P. Driscoll, receives a hands-on walkthrough of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense launcher from Soldiers assigned to Alpha Battery, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment at Fort Bliss, Texas, March 26, 2025. The briefing included launcher components, critical safety features, and maintenance responsibilities required to sustain air and missile defense readiness. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. JaDarius Duncan)
Gen. Dagvin Anderson, commander, U.S. Africa Command; Francisca Tatchouop Belobe, the African Union commissioner for economic development, trade, tourism, industry, and minerals; and Walter Parrs, charge d’affaires, U.S. Mission to the African Union, and other military and government leaders met at the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Jan. 28, 2026. Established in 2002 as a successor to the Organisation of African Unity, the African Union is a continental body consisting of member states that make up the countries of the African Continent. (Department of Defense courtesy photo)
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine walks through NATO Headquarters in Brussel, Belgium, January 21, 2026 during the Military Committee in Chiefs of Defence Session. (DOW photo by Benjamin Applebaum)
A sign for the National Security Agency (NSA), US Cyber Command and Central Security Service, is seen near the visitor’s entrance to the headquarters of the National Security Agency (NSA) at Fort Meade, Maryland, February 14, 2018. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
Chad Sherod, 319th Security Forces Squadron lead sUAS instructor, extends his hand to catch a descending drone April 7, 2023, on Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota. The 319th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron plans to implement the use of drones within their disaster recovery team in the event of an aircraft crash or natural disaster. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Colin Perkins)
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks in the Oval Office at the White House on May 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. President Trump announced his plans for the “Golden Dome,” a national missile defense system. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to the 3rd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division operate a GhostX drone from a mobile laptop during Exercise Combined Resolve 25-1 at Hohenfels Training Area on Jan. 31, 2025. Combined Resolve is a US-led, NATO and partner-integrated exercise in the European Theater focused on combined arms interoperability. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Bryanne Vega)
Crews of the National Space Defense Center at provide threat-focused space domain awareness across the nation security space enterprise. The NSDC was originally established in 2015 as the Joint Interagency Combined Space Operations Center and was renamed in 2017 to more accurately reflect its mission. (U.S. Space Force photo by Kathryn Damon)
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Manta Ray Uncrewed Undersea Vehicle (UUV) prototype, completed full-scale, in-water testing in the Naval Base Ventura County (NBVC) Point Mugu Sea Range, March 2024. (Photo courtesy of Northrop Grumman via DVIDS)
B-52 Stratofortresses from the 5th Bomb Wing takeoff at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., Oct. 26. 2025. The U.S. Northern Command Counter-small Unmanned Aerial System fly-away kit is seen in the foreground. (Department of Defense photo by John Ingle)
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks alongside Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine (R) during a meeting with Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, on January 15, 2026. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images)