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Rough waters help firm demo ‘expeditionary manufacturing’ aboard warship

Firestorm Labs says it 3D-printed thousands of parts as waves buffeted USS Essex.

US has too few interceptors to deter war with China, experts say

A new report from Heritage is the latest to sound alarms over the expenditure of munitions in Trump's Iran war.

Anduril and Amazon’s mobile data center venture aims to bring edge computing to the frontlines

Amazon Web Services named the defense firm as the preferred national security provider.

Why the US can’t copy Ukraine’s robot navy

Command and control will remain a human endeavor—even as the Pacific fills with robo-boats.

Pentagon preps to enforce ban on companies with ‘indirect’ ties to China

Defense firms will be notified of potential links to blacklisted Chinese-military companies a year before the contracting ban goes into effect,…

NATO retains ‘open-door policy’ despite US opposition to a ‘perpetually expanding alliance’

A top alliance official noted that NATO members are not agreed on how far it might expand.

Shield AI’s unmanned fighter jet concept pitched as a drone wingman or solo aircraft

The company hopes its new autonomous fighter jet can reach an initial flight test by next year.

Lockheed basks in F-35 delivery win

Execs said the company delivered 46 aircraft in the third quarter of the year.

Get more F-35s in the air and don't break the bank, senators beg USAF chief nominee

Gen. Wilsbach declined to endorse the service’s ongoing reorganization to counter China.

This isn’t how wars are ended: a veteran diplomat puts Trump-Putin summit in context

Hastily convened without Ukrainian input, the summit is "amateurish and is unlikely to yield real results," says Donald Heflin, now a Tufts prof…

Army picks Raytheon radar for Patriot system

The service used a special contracting authority to cut the selection timeline in half.

How to Detect Sarcasm with Artificial Intelligence

Humans make inferences about tone and meaning, but algorithms can find hidden relationships between words to detect irony and intentional falseh…

Trump Threatens to ‘Release’ ISIS Fighters into France, Germany

The president wants European governments to repatriate and try citizens being held by Syrian resistance forces.