JUST IN: Experimental Satellites Orbit Without Propulsion System While the Defense Department eyes satellites of all sizes for future space-based missions, a constellation of small satellites recently demonstrated technology advancements that includes a novel technique for moving around space ..read more

Congress Increases Innovation Funding, Again The cat and mouse game between the White House and Congress over innovation funding in the annual defense budget continues ..read more

New Artillery Rounds to Help Army Reach Longer Distances LAS VEGAS, Nevada — A new family of 155mm ammunition is being developed to help the Army achieve its goal of improving the reach of its long-range precision fires ..read more

JUST IN: Coast Guard Aims to Learn from Navy at RIMPAC Honolulu, Hawaii - Although the Rim of the Pacific 2022 exercise is led by the U.S. Navy, the Coast Guard is playing a larger role this year ..read more

‘AI Is Not a Technology’ and Other Thoughts TAMPA, Florida — Most defense industry conferences deliver what is promised: business intelligence on present or future government requirements that can lead to contracts ..read more

Boat With Tracks Makes Inroads A U.S. company marketing a French-designed boat that deploys a set of tracks to operate on land has reported its first sale to a foreign navy ..read more

Energetics Workforce Is Graying Out WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana — Whether it is cyber, microelectronics or another technology field, one of the most pressing concerns among government and industry is developing the future workforce. Nowhere is that challenge greater than in the field of energetic materials — the chemicals used to make propellants, pyrotechnics and explosives ..read more

BREAKING: Marine Corps Issues New ‘Information’ Doctrine Information has always been a warfare domain — whether it involves the sharing of tactical plans among units, gathering and processing intelligence or communicating to and influencing domestic and adversary audiences. With the information domain increasingly contested and hostile, the Marine Corps is issuing new doctrine on information ..read more

Special Ops Tech Pulled in Different Directions TAMPA, Florida — With a pivot to the Indo-Pacific, its fingers still on the pulse of the Middle East, and the potential for expanding conflict in Eastern Europe, Special Operations Command has its hands full ..read more

Viewpoint: JADC2 Should Embrace Hardened 5G, Edge Computing Joint all-domain command and control, or JADC2, is the military’s latest buzzy acronym and one of the stated priorities for the Defense Department. Yet it is a concept without a clear solution and is likely to languish without the infrastructure to ensure its success ..read more