Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. is a Contributing Editor at Breaking Defense. He focuses on critical technologies and policies shaping the future of warfare, with an emphasis on cyber, robotics, and artificial intelligence, drawing on his extensive experience covering defense since 1997. Sydney has been featured in Breaking Media, Inc.
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By: Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The K1000ULE broke endurance records with a three-day flight and has featured in multiple military exercises. “We’ve proven ourselves to the warfighter across multiple AORs,” Kraus Hamdani president Fatema Hamdani told Breaking Defense.
By: Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“I want you to move like somebody’s on your heels, and they’re about ready to eat you,” the Defense Intelligence Agency’s chief AI officer, Maj. Gen. Robert Kinney, tells his team.
By: Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“While the aircraft was flying, the software was queued up so that we could have different companies’ behaviors take control of the platform and fly [it]," said Dan Salluce, Northrop’s senior director for aerospace systems.
By: Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“As we start fleshing out these concepts, what we start to understand is that … something that is a really great capability over in EUCOM or CENTCOM right now may not translate over to the Pacific, where the distances are way, way greater,” Rear Adm. Douglas Sasse told the Sea-Air-Space conference.
By: Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
A Google Gemini tool on GenAI.mil allows Defense Department personnel to create their own AI agents to handle data and automate online tasks,
By: Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The Defense Department has made agreements with Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI, SpaceX, and Reflection, according to an announcement this morning.
By: Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
After exploring a Pacific-war scenario with cybersecurity executives from 14 tech firms, the Army wants to fast-track new AI tools — and thrash out new policy to allow more autonomy for AI “agents.”
By: Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Mythos is just the first of a new generation of AIs that can patch vulnerable code at superhuman speed, said Pentagon CTO Emil Michael and Cyber Policy chief Katie Sutton, downplaying the uniqueness of Anthropic.
By: Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
DoD users tore through 20 billion token a day as Palantir’s Maven Smart System was "leveraged" to help plan and coordinate Operation Epic Fury’s 13,000 airstrikes on Iran, officials said.
By: Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The forthcoming Wraith Shield software update uses the existing antenna to scan for drone control signals, identify enemy ones, and jam them, L3Harris executives told reporters.
