Mikayla Easley

Mikayla Easley reports on the Pentagon’s acquisition and use of emerging technologies. Prior to joining DefenseScoop, she covered national security and the defense industry for National Defense Magazine. She received a BA in Russian language and literature from the University of Michigan and a MA in journalism from the University of Missouri. You can follow her on Twitter @MikaylaEasley

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A medium range ballistic missile target is launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii, as part of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s Flight Test Aegis Weapon System 31 Event 1a (FTM-31 E1a), held on March 30, 2023 in cooperation with the U.S. Navy. (MDA photo)

Space Force stands up planning team to assess tech for Trump’s ‘Iron Dome for America’

Space

U.S. Air Force F-16 Falcons from Ellington Field, Texas, receive fuel from a U.S. Air Force KC-135 from the 117th Air Refueling Wing, Alabama on June 13, 2023. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Nicholas Faddis.)

Raytheon ready to add AI-enabled radar warning receiver to fighter jets, other Air Force platforms

Emerging Tech

A student at the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School in the Technical Exploitation Course processes a laptop computer during training at Fort Bragg, North Carolina October 22, 2019. (U.S. Army photo illustration by K. Kassens)

DISA aims to connect DOD services to federated ICAM solution by end of 2025

IT

Zero-trust network architecture illustration (iStock/Getty Images)

Navy looks to add zero-trust controls into weapon systems, platforms

Cyber

Firefly Aerospace successfully launches U.S. Space Force VICTUS NOX Responsive Space Mission with 24-hours notice. (Firefly Aerospace photo)

Space Force selects Firefly Aerospace for next tactically responsive space mission

Space

(Image credit: Northrop Grumman)

SDA solicits industry studies on potential capabilities for Trump’s Iron Dome for America

Space

Under the direction of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), two CF-18s assigned to the Royal Canadian Air Force flies behind a KC-135 assigned to the Pennsylvania Air National Guard during air-defense Operation NOBLE DEFENDER, Oct. 27, 2022. (U.S. Air National Guard Photos by Tech. Sgt. Bryan Hoover)

Hegseth directs pause on Dept. of the Air Force’s reorganization efforts

Emerging Tech

Sgt. Victor Sanchez, a fire direction coordinator assigned to Alpha Battery, 1st Battalion, 258th Artillery Regiment, 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the New York Army National Guard, operates an advanced field artillery tactical data system to calculate aiming data to relay to the howitzer teams during an air assault artillery raid on Fort Drum, N.Y. on June 9, 2017. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Alexander Rector)

Army finalizing contracting approach for scaled-up version of enterprise data platform

Emerging Tech

A woman walks under a sign of big data analytics US software company Palantir at their stand ahead of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on May 22, 2022. (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)

Palantir partners with data-labeling startup to improve accuracy of AI models

AI