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Army selects Lockheed Martin for billion-dollar Future Interceptor program

Under a cost-sharing arrangement, Lockheed is expected to kick in $423 million for the project while Uncle Sam provides about $660 million.

By Jon Harper

Vion system kit (GDIT image)

GDIT puts Vion mission partner environment technology through its paces during Pacific exercise

AI

By Jon Harper

A close-up view shows a solar-powered Flock Safety automated license plate reader (ALPR) public safety surveillance camera mounted on a utility pole in a commercial parking lot in American Fork, Utah, United States, on September 20, 2026. (Photo by Charles-McClintock Wilson/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

U.S. military building resilience against emerging OPSEC risks from automated surveillance networks

Tech

By Brandi Vincent

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Army taps AWS and WWT to boost AI-enabled cybersecurity initiative

By Jon Harper
Gen. Caine urges defense logistics leaders to be ‘creative and entrepreneurial’ ahead of future fights

By Brandi Vincent
Army designates 2 additional ‘permissive’ sites for commercial vendors to test their drone and counter-drone tech

By Jon Harper
Anduril expanding into laptop manufacturing in partnership with Qualcomm

By Jon Harper
As Project Gatekeeper goes live, Army plans integration with frontier AI models

By Billy Mitchell

Popular Stories

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)

Air Force launches next phase of hypersonic missile program with $694M contract award for ARRW

DefenseScoop talked to analysts about the implications of the deal.

By Jon Harper

(Photo Illustration by Timon Schneider/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Smack Technologies lands new deal for AI prototype to enhance joint military campaigning

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…

By Brandi Vincent

US President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth as he arrives to speak at Anduril Industries in Sparrows Point, Maryland, on October 6, 2026. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP via Getty Images)

Pentagon issues guidance on AI procurements to support Trump’s ‘truth-seeking’ and ‘ideological neutrality’ directives

The memo to acquisition leaders came from the principal director for Defense Pricing, Contracting, and Acquisition Policy.

By Jon Harper

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth arrives on stage for a discussion during the U.S. Army’s 2026 Annual Meeting and Exposition at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on October 14, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Hegseth warns troops against using military information for gambling, prediction market bets

DefenseScoop obtained an official memorandum on Thursday, which was issued by the defense secretary on Oct. 20.

By Brandi Vincent Jon Harper

SOCOM seeks common PaaS environment to support testing and fielding of new tech

By Jon Harper

Army Special Forces leaders see promise, high demand for new robotics technician integrator job

By Drew F. Lawrence

Former U.S. officials urge D.C. Circuit to reconsider decision in Anthropic-Pentagon fight

By Brandi Vincent

Air Force starting to game out sustainment framework for CCA drones

By Jon Harper

Army pilots AI-backed maintenance program to digitize manuals, streamline repairs

By Drew F. Lawrence

Insights

Accelerate defense missions with secure, pre-hardened containers

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How embedded agents are accelerating defense AI adoption

By Joe Kopacz

How to build observability for the agentic AI era

By Scoop News Group

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)

How adaptive weapons and trusted autonomy are reshaping the future of fires

By Scoop News Group

Videos

IonQ’s Craig Miller on securing against quantum threats

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Seekr’s Rob Clark on building trust in autonomous systems

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Wind RiverX’s Ed Siu on scaling defense technology securely

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Scale AI’s Zane Teeters on AI orchestration for defense

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Podcasts

Brandi Vincent: Behind-the-byline of one of the Pentagon’s top tech reporters

By Philip Reynolds

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

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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)

Marine Corps moves to expand Maven Smart System account access across its enterprise

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Navy expands contract ceiling for AI-enabled repair robots

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).

HDUSA wants to replicate South Korea’s ‘war footing’ industrial capacity in America

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Pentagon threatens universities that have ties to ‘foreign entities of concern,’ hints at additional audits

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

Pentagon CIO gets new strategic technical advisor

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)

US Navy deploys unmanned maritime drone to support carrier strike group in historic first

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)

Pentagon averts cyber pay cuts — for now — with one-year C-MIP ‘transition plan’

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Military service members to square off against AI in ‘Mindgame’ tournament

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)

Army playing ‘ACEs’ to meet commanders’ capability needs

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)

Army looking to expand its new space operations branch amid increasing demand for capabilities

Vantor satellite image shows the Pentagon military headquarters and surrounding infrastructure in Arlington, Virginia. (Getty Images / Satellite image (c) 2026 Vantor)

U.S. military debuts new Task Force Easy to enable drone tech ‘adaptation dominance’

U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Kyle A. Frakes, assigned to 4th Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, operates the ADIP software platform during a division reconnaissance and security experiment as part of Project Convergence Capstone 6 at Fort Irwin, California, July 21, 2026. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Ger’vonni Straun)

Army to launch Project Gatekeeper, an effort to make it easier for vendors to onboard software

Soldier services components of the NGC2 infrastructure layer during the Project Convergence-Capstone 6 (PC-C6). (Photo by COURTNEY HARRIS)

As Army I Corps gets parts of NGC2 ecosystem, ‘tyranny of distance and disruption’ in the Pacific are top of mind for commander

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