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A mothership finally recovers DARPA's 'Gremlins' drone, but it's not all good news During tests last month, one Gremlins drone was destroyed after a power system failure forced the team to terminate flight, said Tim Keeter, Dynetics' program manager.

US Air Force three-star to Chinese air force: Let's talk Opportunities for the US and Chinese air forces to interface have "dried up" in recent years. That "should cause us a little bit of concern," the Air Force's director of staff said Friday.

Pentagon's JADC2 office could phase out in coming years Amid questions of authority, top general overseeing JADC2 defended the Pentagon's current approach to the governance of the concept.

Pentagon rolls out v2.0 of controversial CMMC program DoD said it will be "increas[ing] oversight of professional and ethical standards of third-party assessors."

Bahrain's new AH-1Z attack helos matter as much for politics as firepower While it's comforting to imagine that US hardware will only be directed at terrorists and Iranian threats, "Bahrain's history of suppressing internal dissent with external weaponry suggests that these choppers may end up serving a police function during times of crisis, as well."

Exclusive: Amid national security concerns, US slaps overhead time limits on satellites "These restrictions would severely hurt commercial companies' ability to operate high resolution constellations and is counter to the efforts of the past two years to make NOAA regs streamlined and enable US companies to compete internationally," one industry rep said.

VP Harris to chair first National Space Council meeting Dec. 1 Harris will visit NASA Goddard to promote the criticality of space capabilities to climate change mediation.

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