Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.

The Pentagon has made real progress in reaching beyond its historical contractors to “maturing defense startups,” the Ronald Reagan Institute said, but much work is needed.

Working with Anduril and Microsoft, Scale AI will help military planners manage masses of operational data, starting at INDOPACOM and EUCOM.

“These systems can often achieve objectives using just one or two drones per target rather than eight or nine," Ukrainian-American scholar Kateryna Bondar, a former advisor to Kyiv, writes in a new report released today by CSIS.

“Roughly a dozen meaningful field tests are going to occur by the end of the fiscal year” on drones, manned aircraft, and on the ground, DIU emerging technologies director Nick Estep told Breaking Defense.

The space service’s new “Data & AI Strategic Action Plan” emphasizes overhauling UDL, aiming to finally integrate its private-sector data with operational Space Force systems.

A new artificial intelligence strategy calls for upgrading Estonian Defence Force “digital infrastructure” and improving high-tech interoperability with NATO.

The new awardees join Microsoft and startup PsiQuantum in the quantum program, granting them not only DARPA funding but access to rigorous testing & outside review by government experts.

Over $1 billion would pass through the Pentagon, researching shelf-stable blood for casualties, new lubricants for engines, more powerful explosives, and more. Commission Chairman Sen. Todd Young hopes to get the first funds in the 2026 NDAA.

The deal gives AFRL scientists access to manufacturing tools developed by PsiQuantum and GlobalFoundries, allowing them to build experimental designs for barium titanate chips that use particles of light instead of electricity.

Having grown to 100,000 users worldwide, the Pentagon’s favorite big-data analytics system now needs the legal authorities and budgetary stability of a formal Program Of Record, officials told Breaking Defense in an exclusive interview.