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A Heritage Foundation study shows a significant drop in Taiwan Strait transits by the US military under the second Trump administration.
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A Heritage Foundation study shows a significant drop in Taiwan Strait transits by the US military under the second Trump administration.
The announcement is the culmination of a months-long competition to win a contract worth up to $10 billion over the next three decades.
As new drones, networks and weapons come online, the Army faces a power crunch that senior officials are asking industry to help solve. “And it’s not by buying more generators,” Brig. Gen. Troy Denomy, PAE for Maneuver, said.
The force “will employ one-way attack drones consisting of unmanned systems from above, on, and below the sea operated by military support staff from the United States and regional partners,” the command said.
Top news from the final day of the 2026 Space and Missile Defense Symposium.
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A final round of photos from around the show floor in Huntsville, Ala.
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Elbridge Colby said at the start of his multi-nation tour that his message would be “realistic and perhaps bracing, but also reassuring.”
DIA, NGA and the FBI are building the infrastructure and guardrails needed for increasingly autonomous artificial intelligence.
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A recap of leading news from the second day of the 2026 Space and Missile Defense Symposium.
The Defense Department will not decide whether to produce operational space-based interceptors until after industry demonstrates their feasibility, Gen. Michael Guetlein said.
More photos from the expo floor at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville, Ala.
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“Leading up to [2028], we’re going to do a lot of experimentation and test with this unit to make sure that we’re ready to fight with it when it’s delivered,” said Lt. Gen. John Rafferty.
The long-standing mantra that certain operational systems must be continuously available and can’t be brought down for a patch is becoming harder to defend as cyber threats accelerate, US officials warn.
The 50,000-square-foot facility at ProvPort is a $6 million investment that aims to leverage local partnership to provide “additional jobs” in the community, according to the firm.
The Pentagon’s secretive research agency says new advances are needed to counter adversary air defenses, along with innovative manufacturing techniques that can produce hypersonic weapons affordably and at scale.
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