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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Pentagon to launch pilot focused on ‘calibrated trust’ in AI

AI

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Air Force aims to get more civilians into Cyber Excepted Service

Cyber

Crews of the National Space Defense Center provide threat-focused space domain awareness across the nation security space enterprise. (U.S. Space Force photo by Kathryn Damon)

DIU teaming with Space Force on Victus Haze project

Space

Phantom system in transportation configuration within ruggedized enclosure. (Northrop Grumman photo)

US government gets new miniaturized laser weapon

Weapons

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Army launches new contract writing system amid IT modernization push

IT

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Biotech industry could face more CFIUS scrutiny

Emerging Tech

Researchers at the Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate in Rome, N.Y. are advancing quantum technologies from the individual quantum bit or qubit, level to the system level, where different qubit types must interface for future capabilities for the US Air Force. (Photo by Albert Santacroce)

Air Force Research Lab opens new ‘extreme computing’ facility amid international arms race for quantum tech

Emerging Tech

NIWC Atlantic engineers helped reduce the DCGS-MC footprint while also increasing battlespace awareness capabilities. (DCGS-MC illustration by Wendy M. Jamieson)

The few, the proud, the chatbots: Marines seek new AI tools for geospatial intelligence

AI

President Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) talk as they depart the U.S. Capitol following the Friends of Ireland Luncheon on Saint Patrick’s Day March 17, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

White House requests $13B in supplemental defense funding for Ukraine as budget deadline looms

Weapons