Jon Harper

Jon Harper is Editor-in-Chief of DefenseScoop. He leads an award-winning team of journalists in providing breaking news and in-depth analysis on military technology and the ways in which it is shaping how the Defense Department operates and modernizes. You can also follow him on X: @Jon_Harper_

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A black hornet nano unmanned aerial vehicle is displayed during the Air Force Special Operations Command Technology, Acquisition, and Sustainment Review at Austere Field #6, Florida, July 21, 2021. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Miranda Mahoney)

SOCOM looking for ‘multidomain’ micro drones that can operate in the air and underwater

Tech

Alexis Bonnell speaks on a panel at the 2024 Google Public Sector Summit. (Scoop News Group photo)

AFRL’s ‘LabVerse’ looking at AI for system modernization

AI

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How things are going with the Air Force’s experimental NIPRGPT chatbot

AI

Military Sealift Command’s expeditionary fast transport USNS Newport (T-EPF 12) pulls into Baltimore’s Inner Harbor to support Maryland Fleet Week and Flyover Baltimore, Sept. 7, 2022. (U.S. Navy photo by Bill Mesta/released)

Industry solicited for expeditionary medical C4IT capability that can operate on Navy ships

IT

East-Coast-based U.S. Naval Special Warfare Operators (SEALs) participate in a special operations forces exercise off the coast of Fort Walton Beach, Florida, Nov. 3, 2022. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Bailey Wyman)

SOCOM adds new ‘collaborative autonomy’ capabilities to tech wish list

AI

Morgan Adamski delivers a keynote at CyberTalks 2024. (Scoop News Group photo)

Cybercom seeing successes with Panoptic Junction artificial intelligence capability

AI

Terry Kalka, Director of the DIB Collaborative Information Sharing Environment for the DoD Cyber Crime Center, delivers a keynote on defending against threats to critical infrastructure at CyberTalks 2024.

DOD Cyber Crime Center’s vulnerability disclosure program racking up savings for industrial base

Cyber

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NGA gets new chief AI officer

AI

PROMONTORY, Utah (May 27, 2021) – U.S. Navy Strategic Systems Programs successfully conducted a test of the First Stage Solid Rocket Motor as part of the development of the Navy’s Conventional Prompt Strike offensive hypersonic strike capability and the Army’s Long Range Hypersonic Weapon. (U.S. Navy Photo/Released)

DOD to ‘complement’ Replicator initiative by accelerating solid rocket motor production

Weapons