Aliya Sternstein is an investigative journalist who covers technology, cognition and national security. She is also a research analyst at Georgetown Law. Her writing on the intersection of public ...

Monitoring from afar, one of the world’s top superpowers is watching the United States’ war in Iran from a strategic perspective. What are they learning?

Radha Plumb, the Pentagon's Chief Digital and AI Officer, is in the early phases of crafting a long-term model for the AI and Data Acceleration initiative. (Lisa Ferdinando/U.S. Defense Department) ...

Through a DARPA project, Slingshot Aerospace created an AI tool to spot nefarious satellites that could be hiding in large constellations. (Northrop Grumman) As more governments and commercial ...

The Pentagon awarded Palantir Technologies $480 million to expand access to the Maven Smart System. (Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) The Army awarded Palantir Technologies a $480 million contract to expand a ...

Teledyne FLIR Defense's Rogue 1 drone, to be furnished for the Organic Precision Fires-Light endeavor, is seen here outfitted with its training payload. (Colin Demarest/C4ISRNET) Teledyne FLIR Defense ...

A U.S. Marine uses a Battelle-made Drone Defender V2 during counter-unmanned aircraft systems training in Iraq in October 2020. (Gunnery Sgt. Artur Shvartsberg/U.S. Marine Corps) The price tag for ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — This week, U.S. Navy leadership and some of the world’s largest defense contractors flocked to the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center south of the nation’s capital ...

An F-15E Strike Eagle assigned to the 335th Fighter Squadron, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., releases a flare over a bombing range during a November 2023 exercise. The new advanced electronic ...

The Space Force's Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness provide U.S. Space Command with information about activities happening in geosynchronous orbit, about 22,000 miles above Earth's equator.

At least 31 directed-energy initiatives are underway across the U.S. Department of Defense, according to an industry advocacy group. (Jim Kendall/U.S. Army) The U.S. military is tinkering with ...

Approximately 2,600 pounds of high-purity hydrazine was supplied for the rocket and payload, and 755 pounds of dinitrogen tetroxide for the payload in order to launch this Atlas V rocket on Aug. 8, ...