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Inside the Marine Corps’ first-ever littoral regiment
Oct 6, 2024 · MARINE CORPS BASE HAWAII—"Hold right, clear left.”. Four Marines in helmets and flak jackets are stacked outside a rusty metal building covered in faux brick and wood. …
Meet the Air Force’s secretive long-range drone that flies for days
Jul 2, 2024 · The U.S. Air Force is getting closer to realizing its vision of low-cost surveillance drones with an autonomous drone that can fly for more than three straight days.
The Pentagon is already testing tomorrow’s AI-powered swarm …
Jan 22, 2024 · The United States isn’t the only country making new uses of autonomy. While the one-way attack drones that Houthi forces are firing at ships in the Red Sea are crude, earlier …
New AI tool for air defense takes on advanced missiles and drone …
Dec 2, 2024 · A new AI tool from GDIT that quickly fuses data from multiple air-defense sensors could transform how militaries defend against emerging aerial threats such as hypersonic …
How Trump may shake up DOD: an insider’s view - Defense One
Nov 7, 2024 · Few people, if any, have a better window into Donald Trump’s plans for the Pentagon than Christopher Miller, the final acting defense secretary of Trump’s first term and …
US has the tech to down Jersey drones—but not the policy, …
Dec 17, 2024 · Counter-drone policy—not technology—is keeping U.S. agencies from responding more effectively to the reported drone sightings along the East Coast, U.S. officials said …
Pacific partnerships are key to preventing war, Army leaders say
Nov 12, 2024 · FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii—The personal relationships soldiers are building in dozens of training exercises each year with partners throughout the Indo-Pacific are the true …
Military services upping recruiting goals after rebound in 2024
Oct 30, 2024 · Looking to 2025, the military services plan to build on this year’s momentum and bump yearly recruiting goals. The Army will increase its recruiting goal to 61,000 people in …
Army puts new unit loaded with cutting-edge tech to the test
Aug 21, 2024 · To overcome the delays, the Army came up with a “transforming-in-contact” fielding strategy, in which the service rapidly fields small numbers but wide varieties of new …