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Swarming drones in Abu Dhabi: UAE's HALCON unveils new capability "Once the target is identified, a decision is made among the swarm, and based on the target size, shape, and category, they decide how many drones are needed to destroy the target," the company's CEO told Breaking Defense.

Autonomous systems integration, UAS threats dominate UMEX conference The UAE is both investing heavily in a domestic UAV industry and learning first-hand the risks from unmanned systems.

Why are details of Navy's Project Overmatch so scarce? Adversary eyes, for one Navy officials insist that Project Overmatch is critical for JADC2 and the future fight, but the effort's chief said — beyond an analogy to Yelp — the secrecy is intentional.

Navy leaders excited by Pentagon's new AI and data efforts "I think that's a common understanding from those that have been in the Pentagon – We don't in all cases have the data we need or if we do, it's not the quality that we need or timeliness or some other facets," Randal Cole, deputy chief data officer, said. "And so I think that is an ongoing challenge."

Biden warns of Ukraine invasion in 'days,' Austin watching for false flag effort "You don't do these sorts of things for no reason. And you certainly don't do them if you're getting ready to pack up and go home," Austin said of Russia's moves near Ukraine.

After mix-up, Army says 12 programs may be hit by year-long CR After Breaking Defense noted a discrepancy in lists provided by the Army, the service revised the number of programs that would be impacted by a year-long continuing resolution.

Lockheed developing prototype 5G testbed for Marines The company is developing the Open Systems Interoperable and Reconfigurable Infrastructure Solution for the office of the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering through September 2024.

Russian hackers raided defense contractors for two years, stole sensitive info: US "Given the sensitivity of information widely available on unclassified [cleared contractor] networks, the FBI, NSA, and CISA anticipate that Russian state-sponsored cyber actors will continue to target CDCs for U.S. defense information in the near future."

Pentagon CIO hopes CMMC 2.0 will 'raise' cybersecurity 'waterline' "There's a cost to your IP, there's a cost to the US government and there's a benefit to our adversaries if we don't do something like this," DoD Chief Information Officer John Sherman said of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program.

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