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JUST IN: Army Puts its Next-Gen Command, Control System Through the Wringer

AUGUSTA, Georgia — The Army had only been working on its Next Generation Command and Control program for about a year when it took what it had come up with to its wide-scale Project Convergence ...
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JUST IN: Northcom Lacks Sensors to Counter Drone Threat, Official Says

A member of U.S. Northern Command's Counter-Small Unmanned Aerial System fly-away kit team checks airspace information during an exercise at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota. HUNTSVILLE, Alabama — ...
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JUST IN: U.S. Space Assets Increasingly Targeted by Adversaries as China Threat Grows

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama — Gone are the days when the enemy would simply send snipers and sharpshooters to target a platoon leader or radio operator. Today, adversaries are shooting at space assets ...
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JUST IN: Navy Receives First New Dry Dock Afloat in 40 Years

The Navy’s first Auxiliary Floating Dry Dock Medium built in more than four decades successfully hit the water in late July, shipbuilder Austal USA announced Aug. 10. Austal USA launched Auxiliary ...
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SPECIAL REPORT: Accelerated Training Program Prepares Students for Shipbuilding Careers

This is part 3 of a 5-part special report on the shipbuilding industry. DANVILLE, Virginia — As the shipbuilding and submarine industrial bases struggle to hire and retain younger workers, the Navy is ...
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Pentagon’s Flagship Golden Dome Missile Defense Program Spinning its Wheels

President Donald Trump on Jan. 27, 2025 issued an executive order titled “The Iron Dome for America,” which called for the development of a next-generation missile defense shield that would protect ...
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Directed Energy Remains Key Suspect Behind Havana Syndrome

Recent assertions by key individuals within the U.S. government that anomalous health incidents of the so-called “Havana Syndrome” have supported theories that these incidents were due to exposure to ...
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Littoral Combat Ship Still Fighting to Prove Its Worth

The Littoral Combat Ship was meant to start the Navy’s operational renaissance. But a chorus of naysayers and critics have put service leaders on the defensive, insisting that the troubled program has ...
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Poland’s Defense Spending Poised to Skyrocket

Poland has ordered 96 Boeing-built AH-64E Apache attack helicopters. WARSAW, Poland — Poland is already the NATO alliance’s biggest spender on defense when it comes to percentage of GDP, and its ...
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Ukraine A Living Lab for AI Warfare

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, much debate has centered on whether the conflict represents conventional warfare or some revolutionary type of contest. An article in the New Yorker in March 2022 ...
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SPECIAL REPORT: Army’s Project Convergence Goes on the Offensive

A drone carries a payload (far left) and soldiers work inside a command cell at Camp Pendleton, California, as part of Project Convergence Capstone 4. This is part 1 of a 3-part special report on the ...
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SPECIAL REPORT: Pentagon Reexamining Space-Based Interceptors

This is part 1 of a 4-part special report on space-based interceptors. Twenty-five years after the demise of President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative, the Pentagon is once again taking a ...