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Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Maine (SSBN 741) transits Apra Harbor, Naval Base Guam, May 4, 2026. (U.S. Navy photo by Lt. James Caliva)

Navy launches next-gen undersea security initiative

Via the NG-USI effort, the Navy aims to create a “sphere of technological excellence” with members of industry and not-for-profit organizations to rapidly develop prototype solutions.

By Jon Harper

A view of Atakule, one of the landmark buildings of Turkish capital, is illuminated ahead of the 36th NATO Summit of Heads of State and Government, in Ankara, Turkiye, on July 5, 2026. (Photo by Arman Onal/Anadolu via Getty Images)

NATO announces Protected Business Network contract with Accenture

IT

By Jon Harper

Soldiers from B Battery (Dark Eagle), 5th Battalion, 3d Field Artillery Regiment (LRFB), give a capabilities brief on the Long Range Hypersonic Weapon System in Northern Territory, Australia, July 9, 2025. The battery participated in Exercise Talisman Sabre 25. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Perla Alfaro)

GAO: Pentagon’s hypersonic programs grappling with schedule constraints, production woes

Weapons

By Mikayla Easley

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DIU reshaping its tech priorities and portfolio teams under new leadership

By Brandi Vincent
Marine Corps establishes robotics integration group for drone and counter-drone training

By Jon Harper
Pentagon awards $80M task order for AI-enabled tech to defend Air Force bases against small drones

By Jon Harper
After ‘hemorrhaging talent,’ the Army created a path for NCOs to become software warrant officers, graduating first batch

By Drew F. Lawrence
Air Force, Space Force combine multiple AI tools in latest battle management experiment

By Mikayla Easley

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Pentagon awards $500M contract for counter-drone tech to AeroVironment

The Pentagon announcement about the award listed Army Contracting Command Detroit Arsenal in Michigan as the contracting activity.

By Drew F. Lawrence

An F/A-18 launches an Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile Extended Range (AARGM-ER)during test event Jan. 12 at Point Mugu Sea Range in California. (U.S. Navy photo)

Navy seeks new radar-killer missiles

The release of the RFI comes as the U.S. military works to boost its munitions arsenals.

By Jon Harper

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth hosts a drone demonstration at the Pentagon, July 10, 2025. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Alondra Y. Lopez Gonzalez)

Hegseth realigning DOD’s scattered unmanned and autonomy work under new drone boss

A Pentagon spokesperson declined to share whether an interim DRPM-UxS director has been named.

By Brandi Vincent

Anduril’s Menace is seen during AWS Summit Washington on June 30, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo Source: AWS)

AWS, Anduril debut new tactical data center offering listed on DOD’s cloud marketplace

Experts from both companies demonstrated the hardware and briefed a small group of reporters on the underlying technologies.

By Brandi Vincent

SOCOM interested in developing long-range kamikaze drones

By Mikayla Easley

Trump administration announces ‘War Force’ effort

By Jon Harper

Overland AI lands Pentagon contract to produce autonomous ground vehicles for Marine Corps

By Jon Harper

Transcom seeks partners to study autonomous, cargo-moving drone boats for future ops

By Brandi Vincent

III MEF integrates MRIC surface-to-air defense system during Pacific exercise

By Drew F. Lawrence

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Tech specialists discuss modern, adaptive solutions that work regardless of connectivity at GDIT’s ‘Battlespace of the Future’ summit. Panelists include, from left: Scoop News Group’s Billy Mitchell, Navy’s Michael Frank, Air Force’s Julianne Lefebvre, and GDIT’s Ben Gianni. (Scoop News Group photo)

Defense leaders are redefining what it means to operate at the edge

By Scoop News Group

IT experts from Defense Intelligence Agency and GDIT discuss AI modernization — Defense Intelligence Agency CIO E.P. Mathew (right), speaking with GDIT SVP Aaron Bedrowski, discusses DIA’s shift to policy-driven, data-centric computing environments, during GDIT’s ‘Battlespace of the Future’ summit. (Scoop News Group photo)

How the Defense Intelligence Agency is fast-tracking data and AI modernization

By Scoop News Group

Panelists at a defense conference. — Defense security leaders discuss the growing convergence of cyber and kinetic assets at GDIT’s ‘Battlespace of the Future’ summit. Panelists include, from left: Scoop News Group’s Billy Mitchell, U.S. Space Force’s Charlene Laughlin, U.S. Army’s Brandon Pugh, DOW’s Katherine Sutton and GDIT’s John Sahlin. (Scoop News Group photo)

The defense sector confronts the growing convergence of cyber and kinetic domains

By Scoop News Group

Image of executives speaking on stage at an event. — Defense leaders discuss changing role of data management at GDIT’s ‘Battlespace of the Future’ summit. Panelists include, from left: Scoop News Group SVP Billy Mitchell, DOW Assistant Secretary Joseph Jewell, Army Lt. Gen. Jeth Rey, and GDIT President Amy Gilliland. (Photo by Scoop News Group)

In the Battlespace of the Future, Data is the Decisive Munition

By Scoop News Group

Videos

Navy Capt. JJ Murawski on scaling autonomous systems for the fleet

By Scoop News Group

DOW’s Robert Mantz talks autonomous delivery and logistics resilience

By Scoop News Group

Army Lt. Col. William Taylor on building trust in autonomous systems

By Scoop News Group

Marine Corps Col. Jeremie “Hank” Hester on turning drone data into real-time insight

By Scoop News Group

Podcasts

Rob Lehman: Reflections on the Saronic-Powered Rescue Mission in the Strait of Hormuz

By Billy Mitchell

Lt. Gen. Jeth Rey: From the US Virgin Islands to Leading the Army’s Data-Centric Battlefield Transformation

Mikey Dickerson: Crisis Engineering

By Billy Mitchell

Brandon Pugh: The Army’s Cyber and Kinetic Missions are Converging

By Billy Mitchell

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U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to the 1st Space Brigade on Fort Carson, Colorado Springs, Colo., conduct a training exercise sweep of their assigned area on May 25, 2021. The training revolved around timely assembly of space related assets in unknown locations and the teams coordination, communication and combat training throughout the process. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Dennis Hoffman)

Army establishes new branch dedicated to space operations

Spc. Byron Clutier, assigned to 3rd Mobile Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), operates a Hunter Wolf Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) during a training exercise at the Joint Readiness Training Center, Fort Polk, Louisiana, April 13, 2026. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Mariam Diallo)

101st Airborne unit put ‘steel’ between soldiers and the breach, tested limits of AI in recent exercise

US President Donald Trump, alongside (L/R) Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine, speaks to the press following US military actions in Venezuela, at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, on January 3, 2026. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s budget supplemental would secure billions for munitions, emerging defense tech

A quantum computer at The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Information Directorate in Rome, New York is used to conduct experiments to improve quantum computing and networking. (U.S. Air Force photo / Keith Lewis)

Uncertain quantum future presents ‘existential threat’ to US military missions, DOD warns

The Boeing Company signage is displayed above the company’s booth at Special Operations Forces (SOF) Week at the Tampa Convention Center on May 19, 2026 in Tampa, Florida. (Photo by Luke Sharrett/Getty Images)

Boeing awarded $2B deal to build next-gen comms sats for Space Force

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Pentagon taps Casepoint’s AI products to enhance classified legal ops

A U.S. Army soldier lauches an AS3 Surveyor interceptor drone, part of the U.S. counter-drone system known as ‘MEROPS,’ during a live-fire demonstration at the Deba training grounds in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland, on November 18, 2025. The exercise is part of Eastern Sentry enhanced vigilance efforts launched in response to recent drone incursions along NATO’s eastern flank. (Photo by Artur Widak/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Army will ‘open up’ ranges for defense vendors to speed up testing, with some sites mimicking Ukrainian frontlines

A Rocket Lab Electron launch vehicle is readied for lift off from the company’s Launch Complex-1 (LC-1) in Mahia, New Zealand, as part of the U.S. Space Force Tactically Responsive Space (TacRS) VICTUS HAZE mission, June 19, 2026. (Photo courtesy of Rocket Lab)

Space Force sets another record with rapid launch of Victus Haze mission

Aerial photograph of the eastern entrance of the Pentagon. (Getty Images)

Watchdog review sheds new light on DOGE’s downsizing impacts at DOD

U.S. Marines with Tactical Training and Exercise Control Group, Marine Corps Air Ground Task Force Training Command, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, and 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, observe Marines conducting a live fire platoon attacks at Range 410A as part of Integrated Training Exercise 3-26, MCAGCC, Twentynine Palms, California, June 11, 2026. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Lainey Brummett)

Marine Corps mandates use of new digital app for SITREPs

Soldiers assigned 4th Infantry Division maneuver to the objective during a Combined Arms Live-Fire Exercise as part of Ivy Mass at Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site, Colorado, May 17, 2026. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Richard Stewart)

Army taps Anduril as lead for NGC2 common data layer baseline as service sets ‘groundwork for rapid scaling’

Defense Intelligence Agency headquarters (DIA photo)

DIA considering new AI-powered platform to streamline procurement system

A Hunter Wolf unmanned ground vehicle assigned to the 101st Airborne Division holds an overwatch position with a mounted remote operated .50-caliber machine gun during a combat simulation exercise at the Joint Readiness Training Center, Fort Polk, Louisiana, April 13, 2026. (U.S. Army photo by Master Sgt. Anthony Hewitt)

Army looking toward autonomous robots to recover its downed vehicles from combat zones

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