China may have surpassed the United States in AI for drone swarms, one Taiwan-based analyst said.

China may have surpassed the United States in AI for drone swarms, one Taiwan-based analyst said.

The recovery of much of a kill vehicle from a THAAD ballistic missile interceptor could be major intelligence loss. The post THAAD Kill Vehicle’s Infrared Seeker Appears To Have Been Found In Syria Intact appeared first on The War Zone .

The Defense Department is looking to update how older planes see each other and absorb data.

Washington thinks offensive cyber power will restore deterrence. It’s mistaken.

The Education Authority (EA), which oversees school support services in Northern Ireland, said in an official statement it became aware of the incident affecting the “C2K” system last week and took immediate steps to contain the breach.

OPINION — “The use cases that help to drive the research agenda can come from a variety of different settings…We need to acknowledge that it's okay for those use cases to come from the Department of War (DoW) and Intelligence Community (IC). It's our responsibility to be able to help put the best minds here in the U.S., the best talent here in the U.S., to help unlock some of that research and inn

On a recent episode of Equity, we talked to Arena Private Wealth to explore a growing trend: family offices bypassing VCs to gain direct exposure to AI startups, turning them from passive investors into active participants.

Rocket's new AI platform combines strategy, product building, and competitive intelligence, aiming to move beyond code generation.

A new prototype platform sought by the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit could significantly boost situational awareness for users like mobility aircrews, whose decades-old aircraft often lack modern communications equipment.

The past several years have produced a quiet but consequential shift in how the United States understands, and fails to understand, time. American strategy has gradually weakened through bureaucratic cuts, institutional downgrades, and political incentives that privilege immediacy over endurance and partisanship over long-term statecraft. The temporary elimination of the Pentagon’s Office of Net A

The new Pentagon policy was likely in the works before the Iran war broke out, but it still holds relevance as the military plans for any future mass mobilization, experts say. The post Pentagon calls Individual Ready Reserve a ‘mobilization asset’ in new policy appeared first on Task & Purpose .

The remaining Avenger minehunters are in Japan, while Pentagon testing has revealed problems with the LCS.

If approved by lawmakers, the Air Force's budget request would kick off procurement of CCA Increment 1. The post Air Force wants almost $1B to buy first CCA drones in 2027 appeared first on DefenseScoop .

The funding proposal would boost spending on the initiative by more than an order of magnitude. The post Pentagon requests more than $20B for strategic capital loan program in 2027 appeared first on DefenseScoop .

The announcement marked a notch in the Corps’ effort to replace the Light Armored Vehicle (LAV) with a new platform. The post Marine Corps fuels high-stakes competition for its Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle with new deals appeared first on DefenseScoop .

Spanish startup FOSSA Systems is pushing into Japan’s defense market after securing a local partner to expand its reach, building on a shift beyond tiny picosatellites used to connect low-power monitoring devices toward more capable spacecraft for broader government applications. The post FOSSA targets Japan’s defense market as larger smallsats expand capabilities appeared first on SpaceNews .

Early in my career at SpaceX, I was the only person dedicated to training the mission control team for Dragon. For three years, I built the training for the operations team. The documentation came second, always the thing I’d get to later, always the thing that felt like overhead against the actual work of getting […] The post The moon base has a hardware plan. It needs a software strategy, too. a

Lori Glaze: "We have seen real commitment to try and do that... from both Blue and from SpaceX."

On a dark, clouded night, a Russian ballistic missile submarine departs a naval base in the Arctic. A small vessel navigates the Mediterranean Sea at 15 miles per hour. A... The post How Iceye Satellites Track Russian Vessels, Illegal Shipping in the Arctic appeared first on Via Satellite .

ThrustMe founder Dr. Ane Aanesland has put 100 iodine propulsion systems in orbit and signed a €10 million Japanese contract. At SmallSat Europe, she joins a panel asking whether orbital environmental services will become a real business.

Two critical defects in FortiClient EMS have been exploited in the past couple weeks. Experts push for users to apply an immediate hotfix. The post Fortinet customers confront actively exploited zero-day, with a full patch still pending appeared first on CyberScoop .

Bryan Fleming won’t face prison time for a count to which he pled guilty in January, in a rare case of a successful U.S. stalkerware prosecution. The post pcTattleTale stalkerware maker sentence includes fine, supervised release appeared first on CyberScoop .

A “large-scale” distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack targeted the network of Russian state-run telecom giant Rostelecom on Monday evening, temporarily disrupting online banking, government platforms and other digital services across dozens of cities.

Cyber-enabled fraud was behind 85% of all losses reported to the FBI in 2025 and constituted 45% of the 1,008,597 complaints it's IC3 unit received overall.

Microsoft said it has been alarmed to see how effective Medusa actors are, citing multiple cases where the group can move from initial access to data exfiltration and ransomware deployment within 24 hours.

OPINION — Strategic intelligence, usually perceived as intelligence supporting the formulation of strategy, has always had limited influence over national security decisions. Leaders in democratic countries, let alone in authoritarian ones, have their own ideological views of the world, and their own vision of ways to shape the world. They do not rely only on their intelligence agencies for sense-

OPINION — While the war has yet to conclude, we have enough information to create a preliminary net assessment of its effects on U.S. security and prosperity. Spoiler alert: the war is on track to be a net negative for Americans. Instead of focusing on variously articulated war aims, this assessment strives to assess a selected but broader range, admittedly unscientifically derived, of U.S. intere

OPINION — Russia and China are certainly concerned about the desperate state of Iran’s regime, an invaluable transactional partner to both countries. Yet they are also working to secure more strategic gains at America’s expense. Both likely prefer—and are enabling—a drawn out, grinding, and unpopular U.S.-led war that strains U.S. military reserves, alliances, global influence, and deterrence. The

Zero Shot, a new venture capital fund with deep ties to OpenAI, is aiming to raise $100 million for its first fund. It has already written some checks.

Google's new offline-first dictation app uses Gemma AI models to take on the apps like Wispr Flow.

OpenAI proposes taxes on AI profits, public wealth funds, and expanded safety nets to address job loss and inequality, blending redistribution with capitalism as policymakers debate AI’s economic impact.

Learn how to use Spotify, Canva, Figma, Expedia, and other apps directly in ChatGPT.

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Within Silicon Valley’s orbit, an AI-fueled jobs apocalypse is spoken about as a given. The mood is so grim that a societal impacts researcher at Anthropic, responding Wednesday to a call for…

Chandra Donelson, the first permanent Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Officer for the United States Space Force, announced on April 3, 2026, that she will step down from her role. […]

The proposed doubling of the U.S. Space Force budget to 71 billion dollars for fiscal year 2027 represents a monumental shift in how the Department of Defense intends to dominate […]

On April 5, 2026, Planet Labs PBC confirmed it has indefinitely suspended the distribution of satellite imagery covering Iran and broader Middle East conflict zones. This policy shift follows a […]

On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, we debated Elon Musk's vision for data centers in space.

Unleashing submunitions at high altitudes has helped Iran to get through Israel's terminal missile defenses, and is a tactic others will likely seize upon. The post Iran Is Piercing Israel’s Ballistic Missile Defenses With High Altitude Cluster Warhead Releases appeared first on The War Zone .

Tech firms are more willing to spend their own money on R&D.

The 2027 request may renew a dogfight between the Pentagon, White House, and Congress.

$71 billion request for the U.S. Space Force for fiscal year 2027 includes more than $60 billion for procurement, research and development The post Space Force budget would more than double in Trump’s $1.5 trillion defense plan appeared first on SpaceNews .

It’s about to become more expensive for Claude Code subscribers to use Anthropic’s coding assistant with OpenClaw and other third-party tools.

Glen Anderson, president of Rainmaker Securities, says the secondary market for private shares has never been more active — with Anthropic the hottest trade around, OpenAI losing ground, and SpaceX's looming IPO poised to reshape the landscape for everyone.

It is unclear whether Gurpartap “GP” Sandhoo will keep his role as SDA acting director under a double-hat, but one industry source said that is the most likely solution at least in the near term.

Secretary Pete Hegseth’s push for faster, more commercial defense acquisition will fall short unless Congress also gives the Pentagon the flexible budget authorities already available to civilian agencies, Bill Greenwalt writes.

The Marine Corps is seeking an ARV “family of vehicles” for the program, each outfitted with unique capabilities to support mobile reconnaissance.

Restrictive agreements with defense contractors leave service members unable to fix the expensive ships, fighter jets, and ground vehicles they depend on. The post Right to repair: Why the US military can’t fix much of its own equipment appeared first on Task & Purpose .

Less than a month after the edict's release, experts said the full implications of this major transition remain unclear. The post Feinberg’s new Maven directive sets AI-enabled decision-making as ‘the cornerstone’ for CJADC2 appeared first on DefenseScoop .

Donelson has served as the Space Force's CDAO since 2023, and previously held roles at the Army and U.S. Central Command. The post Chandra Donelson departs as Space Force CDAO appeared first on DefenseScoop .

Amazon says it will revise deployment plans for its broadband satellite constellation while denying claims from SpaceX that its current approach represents a space safety risk. The post SpaceX and Amazon spar over satellite deployments appeared first on SpaceNews .

Liftoff from pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station happened Saturday at 1:46 a.m. EDT (0546 UTC).

Gravitics has received a Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI) contract from SpaceWERX, the U.S. Space Force’s innovation arm, to accelerate development and demonstration of its Orbital Carrier architecture, the company said... The post Gravitics Receives Strategic Funding Increase From SpaceWERX appeared first on Via Satellite .

A top congressional Democrat criticized both the scope and nature of the proposed reduction. The post Trump budget proposal would cut hundreds of millions more from CISA appeared first on CyberScoop .

The Senate Democrat said that the SSA following Trump’s executive order would indicate “willing participation” in the administration’s midterm elections scheme. The post Wyden warns Social Security chief: Trump’s voter database is ‘blatant voter suppression’ appeared first on CyberScoop .

OPINION – The Cipher Brief broke new ground when it published my piece addressing scams as a national security issue in December 2023. Two years later, there is broad consensus that transnational criminals are attacking our citizens and businesses at unprecedented scale, and the White House has responded with a new Executive Order to combat the surge in cybercrime. It is time to raise our defenses

OPINION — The countries that get held up as models for this kind of US led attack are worth looking at closely, because they’re instructive in the wrong direction. Iraq fell in twenty-one days in 2003, but Saddam Hussein was running a hollow state. His military had been gutted by a decade of sanctions, the 1991 Gulf War, and the no-fly zones. There was no grassroots ideological loyalty to the man

In addition to Lightcap's new role, OpenAI CMO Kate Rouch will be stepping away from the company to focus on cancer recovery, with a plan to return when her health allows.

Anthropic has purchased the stealth biotech AI startup Coefficient Bio in a $400 million stock deal, according to The Information and Eric Newcomer.

With the midterms right around the corner, the new group is positioned to back candidates who support the AI company's policy agenda.

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. In January, Elon Musk’s SpaceX filed an application with the US Federal Communications Commission to launch up to one million data centers into Earth’s orbit. The…

CSO Gen. Chance Saltzman has signed a memo, obtained by Breaking Defense, initiating the creation of SF/S9 to coordinate future force planning. However, the change has yet to be approved by Air Force Secretary Troy Meink.

The Pentagon intends to replace him with a leader aligned with Hegseth and President Donald Trump’s vision for the Army, an official told Military Times.

A Pentagon official confirmed that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to step down. The post Hegseth asks top Army officer to step down appeared first on Task & Purpose .

“One of the things that we’re doing is, we’re kind of combining [developmental testing] and [operational testing],” Lt. Gen. Douglass Schiess said. The post Space Force using ‘integrated test teams’ to speed up capability delivery appeared first on DefenseScoop .

Amazon denies violation, says SpaceX caused conflict by lowering Starlink satellites.

Amazon wants in on the low-Earth orbit Internet action.

The trio of Democrats weren’t satisfied with Immigration and Customs Enforcement answers, and criticized the spyware’s use. The post House Dems decry confirmed ICE usage of Paragon spyware appeared first on CyberScoop .

A new report from Halcyon finds that the group also puts more effort than usual into developing working decryptors, likely to incentivize businesses to pay up. The post Akira ransomware group can achieve initial access to data encryption in less than an hour appeared first on CyberScoop .

The bipartisan, bicameral Cyber Ready Workforce Act aims to cut into the country’s deficit of cybersecurity professionals. The post Lawmakers renew push for Labor Department-backed cyber apprenticeship grants appeared first on CyberScoop .

The Handala group claimed responsibility for hitting the company with a wiper attack last month. The post Medtech giant Stryker says it’s back up after Iranian cyberattack appeared first on CyberScoop .

Bellingcat has identified several high-profile incidents where authorities in the United Arab Emirates have downplayed damage, mischaracterised interceptions and in some instances not acknowledged successful Iranian drone strikes on the country. A review of official statements shows that the public account does not always align with what can be observed through open sources. This comes […] The pos

THE BLUF: The January 3rd Operation Absolute Resolve ousted Venezuelan Dictator Nicholas Maduro but the full consequences of the US operation continue to play out. With that move, the subsequent Shield of America’s coalition, and apparent blockade of Cuba, the Trump administration has made one message clear to the world and that is that the US is pushing back on adversaries’ influence in the weste

OPINION — Iran is the right place to start. Not because it is the most sophisticated adversary in disinformation—but because it is the most instructive. It has built a working infrastructure. It is using it in a live conflict. And it is showing us exactly what AI will make possible over the next five years. This is not a future problem. The architecture is already under construction. Within hours

What U.S. national security interest binds Greenland, Argentina, the Congo, and the Cook Islands? What was the impetus for the recent “strategic resilience” bill in Congress? And as Washington retreats from many global alliances, what’s the issue driving a U.S. push for closer ties with more than 50 nations? The answer to all three questions involves critical minerals – integral elements in everyt

Next time around, the pressure will be on SpaceX and Blue Origin.

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Fuel prices are soaring. Plastic could be next. As the war in Iran continues, one of the most visible global economic ripple effects has been fossil-fuel prices. But looking ahead, further consequences could…

The contract framework, which will be spread across seven years, will match Lockheed Martin’s push to surge production on the PAC-3 MSE all-up round.

What if the next war is decided not by drone swarms, hypersonic missiles, or AI — but by good, old-fashioned human creativity? We have undervalued the mindset dimension that is critical to innovation yet it is the cornerstone of defense organizations’ adaptability and very difficult to scale. We cannot buy (military) innovators.One of the most important shifts happening inside NATO today is not a

For the first time, the Pentagon’s annual suicide report broke down rates based on military job fields. The post Infantry, artillery, other combat arms troops had highest suicide risk in 2024 appeared first on Task & Purpose .

The service is stepping up to support NASA’s first crewed moon mission since 1972.

Defense Business Brief: The Navy’s MUSV pivot; NGA taps Vantor for $2.3M spy satellite contract; and a bit more

As the Pentagon eyes agentic AI, a veteran-founded company introduces a tool that puts the military first.

Confidential SEC submission sets up largest IPO in history.

Proofpoint researchers say the group behind the surge, TA416, had turned away from Europe for a few years. The post European-Chinese geopolitical issues drive renewed cyberespionage campaign appeared first on CyberScoop .

The order is expected to be quickly challenged in court, where the Trump administration’s previous efforts have been struck down as unconstitutional. The post White House executive order purports to limit mail-in voting, mandate federal voter lists appeared first on CyberScoop .

This article is the result of a collaboration with Josimar. You can find Josimar’s corresponding piece here. A European academic used a false name to represent an opaque Asian-facing bookmaker that is sponsoring Croatia’s national football team in the run up to the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Croatia’s national governing body of football, the Croatian […] The post Croatia’s Football Team Signed Deal With

OPINION — For thirty years, American wars have contained a quiet assumption: that the skies were uncontested. From Grenada and Panama, through Desert Storm, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya - the US could reliably achieve air superiority very quickly, almost a preordained fighting condition. Operation Epic Fury, however, has challenged that assumption, marking the first time in a generation the US has

The company has also lined up an unusually large number of 21 banks to manage the mega IPO, internally codenamed “Project Apex."

Editor’s Note: War on the Rocks is running “for” and “against” articles on the war with Iran by legislators with military backgrounds. You can find the other article here.The view from a C-130 during a combat mission in the Middle East provides clarity that is often lost in the sanitized briefing rooms of Washington. As an Air Force medical crew director, I have looked into the eyes of young servi

The jets could provide CENTCOM with America's most advanced standoff jamming capability, including disrupting communications and air defenses. The post New EA-37B Compass Call Electronic Warfare Jets Cross Atlantic, Middle East Next? (Updated) appeared first on The War Zone .

A rush to harden bases in the Middle East should finally be a much needed wake-up call to glaring gaps globally. The post Bunkers For U.S. Bases In Middle East Now A Top Priority For Pentagon appeared first on The War Zone .

Satellite failure cause is unexplained after second "fragment creation event."

The video posted by a state branch of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) showed Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma shooting an image of two men in Muslim skull caps. “Foreigner-free Assam”, read one caption across the video. “Why did you not go to Pakistan?” said another. One of the men in the photo […] The post How India’s Ruling Party is Using AI to Boost Hate Speech in States Nea

OPINION — “Nuclear facilities on both [the Iranian and Israeli] sides have been targeted. That’s where we are in this war, and that’s how far it’s escalated. If a nuclear reactor like [Iran’s] Bushehr [nuclear power plant] were hit there’s a significant risk of a meltdown and leaks of extremely dangerous radioactive materials that would affect all countries in the [Middle East] region, and, of cou

Executive Summary Since President Xi Jinping's 2013 directive to "tell the story of China well" (讲好中国古事), the People's Republic of China has developed a systematic thirteen-year strategy treating "discourse power" (话语权) as a core component of Comprehensive National Power (CNP). This approach has enabled measurable influence gains, demonstrating that narrative power is not supplementary propaganda

In the early days of large language models (LLMs), we grew accustomed to massive 10x jumps in reasoning and coding capability with every new model iteration. Today, those jumps have flattened into incremental gains. The exception is domain-specialized intelligence, where true step-function improvements are still the norm. When a model is fused with an organization’s…

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. There are more AI health tools than ever—but how well do they work? In the last few months alone, Microsoft, Amazon, and OpenAI have all launched medical chatbots. There’s a clear demand…

The cluster munitions likely have a very particular purpose aimed at neutering Iran's ability to launch long-range ballistic missiles. The post Israeli F-16s Appear To Be Carrying Cluster Munitions appeared first on The War Zone .

Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida happened at 5:15 p.m. EDT (2115 UTC).

The Transporter-16 mission is the 21st mission in the company’s smallsat rideshare program. Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base occurred at 4:02 a.m. PDT (7:02 a.m. EDT / 1102 UTC).

Explosives test in Canada. Source: Defence Research and Development Canada. The post Explosive Misinformation: A Guide to Mushroom Clouds, ‘Sonic Weapons’ and Disintegration appeared first on bellingcat .

For roughly two weeks, the Karachi, a Pakistani-flagged Aframax tanker loaded with crude at Das Island in Abu Dhabi, sat waiting for a signal that never came through official channels. When it finally moved, it did not take the standard shipping lane. It hugged the Iranian coast, threading through the narrow gap between the islands of Larak and Qeshm, a route mariners are normally advised against,

SpaceX launched 119 payloads to Sun-synchronous orbit from California for the Transporter 16 mission. Being… The post SpaceX delivers 119 payloads to Sun-synchronous orbit on Transporter 16 appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com .

In 1918, the U.S. Supreme Court held that government contractors could be sued for patent infringement even if their products were manufactured specifically for the U.S. government. Franklin D. Roosevelt, then acting secretary of the Navy, wrote an urgent letter to Congress warning that contractors were hesitant to build equipment for the Navy that could expose them to expensive litigation. Congre

It is 2029. General Secretary Xi Jinping has given the order for the People’s Liberation Army to forcibly take Taiwan. Hundreds of Chinese warships begin to cross the Taiwan strait, supported by fighter jets and protected by an umbrella of electronic jamming. 80 kilometers from Taiwan’s coast, the first blow comes from below. Autonomous underwater vehicles lurking on the seabed detonate against th

The US Space Force might move additional payloads off of ULA's grounded Vulcan rocket.

Description This image captured by U.S.-Indian Earth satellite NISAR on Nov. 10, 2025, shows Washington’s Mount Rainier. The image is cropped from a much larger swath spanning the Pacific Northwest on a cloudy day; NISAR’s L-band SAR instrument is able to peer through the clouds at the surface below. In Pacific Northwest imagery from the […] The post NISAR’s View of Mount Rainier appeared first on

Description This image captured by U.S.-Indian Earth satellite NISAR on Nov. 10, 2025, shows Washington’s Mount St. Helens. The image is cropped from a much larger swath spanning the Pacific Northwest on a cloudy day; NISAR’s L-band SAR instrument is able to peer through the clouds at the surface below. In Pacific Northwest imagery from […] The post NISAR Views Mount St. Helens appeared first on N

Bellingcat has geolocated and verified two new videos showing the deadly strikes that hit an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) compound as well as an adjacent school in the city of Minab in late February. The new videos were released by Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and show multiple missiles hitting the complex. One of […] The post Two Waves of Bombing: New Videos Reveal Further Detai

OPINION — The White House is making a significant effort toward putting the nation’s cyber house in order. A newly released National Cyber Strategy represents a big step in the right direction for U.S. national security policy — advocating for the aggressive defense of our national infrastructure. While the strategy includes important goals for the administration — streamlining regulation, develop

OPINION — The countries that get held up as models for this kind of US led attack are worth looking at closely, because they’re instructive in the wrong direction. Iraq fell in twenty-one days in 2003, but Saddam Hussein was running a hollow state. His military had been gutted by a decade of sanctions, the 1991 Gulf War, and the no-fly zones. There was no grassroots ideological loyalty to the man

Liftoff of the Starlink 17-17 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base, in California occurred at 4:03 p.m. PDT (7:03 p.m. EDT / 2303 UTC).

The US appears to have deployed the Gator Scatterable Mine system over Kafari, a village near Shiraz, in southern Iran overnight. Several people were killed according to Iranian media. Three experts told Bellingcat the munitions appeared to be air-delivered US-made Gator anti-tank mines. The US is the only participant in the Iran war known to […] The post Evidence Points to US Scattering Mines ove

Somewhere in a defense ministry, someone is drafting a policy on whether to permit AI-assisted software development in defense procurement. The sentiment is understandable, but the policy is unfortunately unenforceable because the code is already there.In April 2025, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella told an audience that 20 to 30 percent of code in some Microsoft repositories is now

As Iranian-designed Shahed drones struck critical infrastructure across the Persian Gulf in early March, military planners in Washington confronted an uncomfortable reality. The weapons that have terrorized Ukrainian cities for four years were now exposing gaps in some of the world’s most advanced air defense networks. Gulf states burned through expensive Patriot interceptors at alarming rates, wi

OPINION – When ransomware groups hit Romania’s national water agency , its largest coal-fired power producer and oil pipeline operator all in recent months, it would have been easy to file each incident under “criminal nuisance” and move on. But the ransomware gangs targeting the national critical infrastructure, including groups like Qilin and Gentlemen, are not merely profit-driven criminals ope

Sift is building the data infrastructure for advanced manufacturing.

The nuclear non-proliferation regime is a global framework of norms, practices, and diplomatic agreements — underpinned by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) — designed to limit the spread of nuclear weapons. The regime has had both failures and successes over the decades. Perhaps the biggest challenge in recent years came from Iran. The country’s nuclear activities raised international co

Munition remnants pictured at the site of a strike that killed at least 17 people in the town of Tiné, Chad, last week appear to match a weapon previously used by Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the war with Sudanese government forces – despite RSF denials of involvement in the incident. Photographs showed what […] The post Munition Remnants Pictured at Site of Deadly Chad Strike Match Weapo

In 2017, Marco Rubio, then Florida’s junior senator, was assigned a Capitol Police security detail because the U.S. received unverified but alarming intelligence that Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro’s feared chief enforcer was sending a hit man to assassinate him . Today, in an epic irony, Rubio, now Secretary of State, and his boss, President Donald Trump, have turned to that same enforcer –

OPINION - After the joint U.S. - Israeli strikes against Iran’s nuclear program last June and after the spectacular raid that resulted in the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, U.S. President Donald Trump must have begun to feel like the ruler of the world. “ For he was ruler of the world and he knew not what to do. But he would think of something.” —Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Ody

OPINION – The current conflict with Iran highlights a longstanding, core premise that national security comes from visible instruments of power - weapons. While hard power will always be critical to national security, national security is not created by accumulated hard power. It is created by enduring internal capacity that prevents the need to rely on hard power. This enduring internal capacity

OPINION — “The [narco-trafficking] boat strikes [in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific] aren't the answer. What we're moving for right now might be an extension of [Operation] Southern Spear, really a counter [narcotics] cartel campaign process that puts total systemic friction across this [drug] network.” That was Marine Corps Gen. Francis Donovan, Commander of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), te

When the United States and Israel struck Iran’s nuclear facilities in June last year, the operation caught many observers off guard — the planning was tightly concealed. By contrast, when Operation Epic Fury started in the early hours of Feb. 28, much of the world was staying up refreshing their screens, waiting for it to begin. Open source analysts tracked the usual indicators of escalation: sate

OPINION — Since U.S. and Israeli strikes began against Iranian military and nuclear infrastructure in late February, two wars have been running simultaneously. One is kinetic. The other involves something the world has not fully reckoned with: the systematic use of artificial intelligence to manufacture reality, at scale, in real time, during active armed conflict. Within days of the opening strik

OPINION — For much of its history, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has been portrayed as a unified military bloc bound by common values and collective defense. In reality, NATO has always been closer to a pragmatic partnership, an alliance shaped as much by disagreement and national interests as by solidarity. While current headlines suggest an alliance on the brink, NATO’s history r

As Iran’s explosive-laden drones wreak havoc in the Persian Gulf and beyond, a wartime leader in another part of the world says he can help. “What is happening around Iran today is not a faraway war for us because of the cooperation between Russia and Iran,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in London last week. “And we do not believe we have the right to be indifferent.” Zelensky has of

OPINION – Over the years, Iran has been responsible for killing hundreds of Americans and, most recently, for the killing of thousands of Iranians. After years of futile negotiations, the U.S. – and Israel -- attacked Iran on February 28, 2026. U. S. courts and the Intelligence Community had assessed that Iran trained, supported and approved terrorist attacks that killed hundreds of Americans and

OPINION — America is entering a future with millions of drones in our airspace. As the federal government works to determine how to manage what will become the most crowded skies in human history, we believe state and local governments will face significant challenges in addressing this issue, regardless of what federal authorities ultimately establish. As with most public safety incidents, the fi

Liftoff of the Starlink 10-62 mission from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station happened at 10:47 a.m. EDT (1447 UTC). The rocket flew on a northeasterly trajectory.

On June 30, 2025, as part of the process of normalizing relations with Damascus following the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the Trump administration overhauled the sanctions imposed on Syria to facilitate the rebuilding of that war-ravaged country. In the course of revising these sanctions, however, 266 employees of the Scientific Studies and Research Center, the heart of the Assa

OPINION – The Gray Zone is no longer a peripheral space between war and peace. It has become the primary arena in which strategic advantage is tested and miscalculation is manufactured. For decades, competition below the threshold of armed conflict relied on political signaling, economic leverage, proxy actors, and selective information operations. Artificial intelligence is accelerating this mode

"Project Sunrise" would include more than 50,000 satellites performing high-energy compute on orbit.

Less than a month after the repeal of Caesar Act sanctions, Syria’s transitional president Ahmad al Sharaa launched an offensive against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, triggering Arab tribal defections and a rapid loss of territory. The fallout has jeopardized Islamic State containment in northeast Syria by disrupting intelligence networks built by the Syrian Democratic Forces, widening

A Bellingcat investigation has identified nine Facebook groups with a combined membership of more than 70,000 people, in which coded language has helped illegal wildlife dealers evade bans on the platform for years. Facebook says it prohibits any form of animal trading on its platform. Investigating the operators behind all nine groups, Bellingcat identified six […] The post How Wildlife Trafficke

Amid waves of Iranian drone attacks, the U.S. Defense Department is pushing to finally field high-energy laser weapons in the next 36 months.

In recent years, as AI has begun to enter military planning and operational design, a persistent unease has surfaced among practitioners. Even with improved tools, increased tempo, and unprecedented access to data, plans continue to falter on integration, coherence, and a shared sense of direction. Marco Lyons’ recent War on the Rocks article on the perceived decline of operational art gives voice

Why would the West underwrite the very system it has spent four years trying to contain? Yet that’s exactly what Russia has proposed, and what some leaders in Washington might be willing to entertain.In February 2026, Russia proposed an economic reintegration plan (the “Dmitriev package”) that it claims would be worth $14 trillion. The package includes sanctions relief, aeronautics contracts and r

The author of this op-ed discusses how the Tesla Cybertruck could offer a unique platform to carry anti-drone systems.

This investigation is part of a collaboration between Bellingcat, Evident Media and CalMatters. You can watch Evident’s investigative video here, and read CalMatters’ report here. In early January 2025, a gardener named Ernesto Campos was pulled over by Border Patrol agents in the city of Bakersfield, California. The agents were a long way from home: Bakersfield […] The post Agents of Chaos: Unpac

At conferences, in pitch decks, and increasingly in public writing, “service” is increasingly being used to describe the work of startup founders, employees, and venture capital investors in defense technology. The claim, sometimes explicit, more often implied, is that building defense technology is itself a form of service comparable to uniformed military service.It is visible in corporate messag

This article is the result of a collaboration with The Sunday Times. You can find their corresponding piece here. Bellingcat and The Sunday Times last week published photographs showing ex-UFC fighter Mounir “The Sniper” Lazzez with wanted cartel leaders Christy and Daniel Kinahan. The images, captured during the 971 Fighting Championship in Dubai last June, […] The post Ex-UFC Fighter and Kinahan

An alliance is only as credible as the runway it can repair under fire.The Pentagon’s latest National Defense Strategy clarifies American aims in the Indo-Pacific while exposing what those aims demand of frontline allies such as the Philippines. The strategy’s emphasis on a “strong denial defense” shifts the metric of credibility. Though the strategy does not specify the objectives to be denied, i

The United States did not enter the war with Iran because it was attacked or was about to be attacked. It seems to have entered after concluding that once Israel moved, American involvement would be unavoidable. When Secretary of State Marco Rubio briefed congressional leaders last week, three days before the strikes began, the debate, as later reported by the Washington Post, was not whether to f

Indonesia is rapidly expanding its naval fleet to meet its blue-water ambitions. But, for much of the past decade, budget constraints and limited political attention meant the country could focus only on acquiring small- and medium-sized naval vessels.That pattern has shifted noticeably in recent years.Jakarta has moved ahead with the procurement of larger and more capable platforms, including two

The deal could give Anduril a better shot at lucrative missile defense contracts through the "Golden Dome" system.

In this interview, Siva Ravada, Vice President of Development at Oracle, discusses why enterprise AI must be built on trusted, proprietary data foundations. He explains how Oracle integrates geospatial intelligence […] The post Enterprise AI Needs Trusted, Proprietary Data Foundations appeared first on Geospatial World .

The company's first demonstration mission is expected in early 2027.

On Jan. 7, 2026, President Donald Trump announced:I have determined that, for the Good of our Country, especially in these very troubled and dangerous times, our Military Budget for the year 2027 should not be $1 Trillion Dollars, but rather $1.5 Trillion Dollars…While the specifics of the request have not yet been released, a $1.5 trillion defense budget would be a roughly 50 percent increase on

Editor’s note: This article is the third in an 11-part series examining how the United States should organize, lead, and integrate economic statecraft into strategy, defense practice, and the broader national security ecosystem. This special series is brought to you by the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies and War on the Rocks. Prior installments can be found at the War by Other Ledgers page. I

Congress has unintentionally shifted the burden of preventing an unconstitutional war squarely onto the military. By failing to exercise its war powers, it has positioned the American military as a firewall made of parchment between itself and the White House. Democratic members of Congress and the Senate have issued solemn warnings regarding unlawful orders and disobedience, hoping the military w

The Manhattan Project brought allied scientists to Los Alamos because winning required pooling allied scientific capacity. Today, as Australia invests $3.4 billion in quantum and advanced defense technologies and autonomous capabilities, the United States has built the supercomputing infrastructure those technologies require — then locked its partners out of accessing it.President Donald Trump’s G

On Feb. 28, the United States and Israel launched coordinated but separately named military campaigns against Iran — the United States under Operation Epic Fury and Israel under Operation Roaring Lion — striking Iran’s nuclear facilities, ballistic missile infrastructure, and military leadership and command structures. In a video message broadcast, President Donald Trump again urged Iranians to “t

This plenary panel at GeoBuiz Summit 2026 examines how artificial intelligence, automation, and digital twins are converging to transform the AEC industry from project-based delivery to continuous, data-driven infrastructure management. […] The post Optimization of AI, Automation, and Digital Twins for the AEC Industry | GeoBuiz Summit 2026 appeared first on Geospatial World .

In the age of AI, the scarcest resource in headquarters is no longer time. It is, rather, the willingness to say no.Artificial intelligence is moving rapidly into military planning staffs because it compresses routine cognitive labor. AI excels at absorbing guidance, reorganizing complex material, and producing clear strategic language at speed. This feels like a qualitative advance, creating the

In this expert panel from GeoBuiz Summit 2026, industry leaders explore the urgent need for resilient Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT) systems as GPS disruptions, spoofing, and jamming incidents continue […] The post Resilient Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT) | GeoBuiz Summit 2026 appeared first on Geospatial World .

Railway , a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, announced Thursday that it raised $100 million in a Series B funding round, as surging demand for artificial intelligence applications exposes the limitations of legacy cloud infrastructure. TQ Ventures led the round, with participation from FPV Ventures , Redpoint

The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it's expensive. Claude Code , Anthropic's terminal-based AI agent that can write, debug, and deploy code autonomously, has captured the imagination of software developers worldwide. But its pricing — ranging from $20 to $200 per month depending on usage — has sparked a growing rebellion among the very programmers it aims to serve. N

Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options. His startup, Listen Labs , needed to hire over 100 engineers, but competing against Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million offers seemed impossible. So he spent $5,000 — a fifth of his marketing budget — on a billboard in San Francisco displaying what looked like gibberish: five strings of random numbers. The numbers were actually AI tokens. Decoded, they led t

Salesforce on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of Slackbot , the company's workplace assistant, transforming it from a simple notification tool into what executives describe as a fully powered AI agent capable of searching enterprise data, drafting documents, and taking action on behalf of employees. The new Slackbot, now generally available to Business+ and Enterprise+ customers, is S

Anthropic released Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-technical users — and according to company insiders, the team built the entire feature in approximately a week and a half, largely using Claude Code itself. The launch marks a major inflection point in the race to deliver practical AI agents to mainstream users, po

Nous Research , the open-source artificial intelligence startup backed by crypto venture firm Paradigm , released a new competitive programming model on Monday that it says matches or exceeds several larger proprietary systems — trained in just four days using 48 of Nvidia's latest B200 graphics processors . The model, called NousCoder-14B , is another entry in a crowded field of AI coding assista

When the creator of the world's most advanced coding agent speaks, Silicon Valley doesn't just listen — it takes notes. For the past week, the engineering community has been dissecting a thread on X from Boris Cherny , the creator and head of Claude Code at Anthropic . What began as a casual sharing of his personal terminal setup has spiraled into a viral manifesto on the future of software develo

DARPA says it has built the world’s largest, most realistic electronic warfare test capability.

Most commercial firms can't access test space where they can refine their products under conditions they might face in the field. DIU wants to change that.