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The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is moving to a zero trust/defense in depth cyber protection schemata for the agency’s satellites, an NRO official said on Tuesday. “Whereas in the past […]

Unmanned systems developer and manufacturer AeroVironment [AVAV] on Tuesday agreed to acquire defense technology company BlueHalo in a deal that creates a $1.7 billion diversified business and will position it […]

RESTON, Va. — The cybersecurity of space systems in terms of on orbit assets, ground systems, and data links is a critical issue for U.S. national security, and the federal government […]

Following successful prototype uses of a tool that allows U.S. and allied forces to sense and exploit open-source digital data of adversaries, the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) on Monday said […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] said on Monday that it has delivered to the U.S. Air Force a Stand-in Attack Weapon (SiAW) test missile “to verify that the launch aircraft can safely […]

The Army has awarded Teledyne FLIR Defense [TDY] a five-year, $168.3 million deal to upgrade the sensor suite on M1135 Strykers, the variant of the vehicle used for nuclear, biological […]

Testing the first hypersonic missiles on the USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) destroyer is running at least two years behind plan for 2025, pushed back to 2027, a Navy official said Thursday. […]

The Navy director for Naval Reactors said the service plans to at least reach Block Eight on Virginia-class attack submarines before moving on to next-generation submarines now planned for the […]

The Pentagon on Wednesday disclosed additional capabilities selected for its Replicator initiative to get after fielding innovative technology rapidly at scale, which includes small drones from an Army program, loitering […]

The U.S. Air Force plans to refine its concept for the future Increment 2 of the Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA). “Increment 2–we are ‘danger’ close to getting started in earnest […]