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Drones = Help For Manned Fighters & Bombers, Not A Substitute Some defense experts think that low-cost, "attritable" unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) now in development can substitute for significant numbers of advanced manned military aircraft. Use these cheaper aircraft and you don't have buy as many F-35A fighters, B-21 bombers and other stealth aircraft. Nothing is further from the truth. The Air Force needs a mix…

DEOS: 'No One Looks Like Real Winners' In Re-Award To GDIT Like JEDI, DEOS is a multi-billion dollar cloud program held up for months by protests from losing bidders. This morning, the Pentagon reaffirmed General Dynamics as the winner, but cut the contract's estimated value nearly in half.

North Korea's Hackers Target Tech Secrets The alert "should raise concern for those simply focused on China or Russia as the core threat to our national security," says Eric Noonan, CEO of security firm CyberSheath.

AFRL Moves To Equip Cargo Planes With Bombs In a Box WASHINGTON: With its latest contract to Lockheed Martin, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has taken another step in its effort to rapidly develop a capability to drop bombs and launch cruise missiles to augment the shrinking fleet of long-range bombers.  The Other Transaction Authority (OTA) contract, announced yesterday and worth $25 million over 18…

Pentagon Unveils Spectrum Strategy; Five Eyes Talking Military technology often lags so far behind Silicon Valley, one defense official says, that much of the Pentagon is "in the Fred Flintstone era," while the cutting edge is, "past the Jetsons."

BD Checks Out Army's Robotic Gun: ATLAS The Army will soon hold live-fire tests of an AI that can algorithmically spot targets and aim at them — but a human still has to pull the trigger. Will ATLAS let future tanks fight better with smaller crews?

Aging Air Force IT 'Biggest Challenge' To JADC2 Progress "Our ability to get out from underneath our infrastructure is probably our biggest challenge," Lt. Gen. Tim Haugh, head of 16th Air Force, says.

More Bandwidth for Software Developers Means Better Apps for SIGINT/ISR/Comms [Sponsored] A new, patented Microwave radio-frequency integrated circuit can operate at industry-leading frequencies to develop advanced applications for software-defined radios.

DARPA AI Builds New Networks On The Fly Military hierarchies are, by necessity, rigid structures. DARPA's 'Mosaic Warfare' project aims for something much more fluid and adaptable, with AI doing the logistical grunt work so human commanders can get creative.

JADC2 'On The Right Track,' Says NORTHCOM's VanHerck "I'm optimistic as a department that we're moving in the right direction," says Gen. Glen VanHerck on JADC2 development.

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