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Senate confirms new Chief of Space Operations

The Senate confirmed Lt. Gen. Douglas A. Schiess on Thursday as the next Chief of Space Operations, making him the third officer…

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Space Force Closely Watching Execution Risk as it Implements Acquisition Reforms

As the Space Force enacts sweeping acquisition reforms over the next few years—changes that will shift the way it sets…

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Air Force Seeks New Ideas for Cheap MQ-9 Alternatives by Year End

DAYTON, Ohio—The Air Force plans to select vendors by the end of 2026 to help develop concepts for cheap, attritable drones that…

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Pentagon’s counter-drone task force inks $500M contract for SkyValor ‘detect and defeat’ system after border testing

The system will be deployed to “critical,” but unspecified sites, including as part of an initial task order for the…

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Air Force Cracks Down on Non-Compliant Computers and Software

The lead cyberspace operations unit in the Department of the Air Force is hardening security standards on department networks at…

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Pentagon puts out call for robot boats that launch attack drones

Spurred on by the threat of unmanned boats and small drones in contested waters such as the Persian Gulf, the Pentagon has…

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First Anduril YFQ-44A rolls off production line for US CCA program

Anduril’s first Ohio-made unmanned, semi-autonomous aircraft rolled off the production line Monday, just four months after its beginning. The defense company’s first…

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Space Force Wants Commercial Bandwidth for SATCOM Experiments

The Space Force is moving forward with a series of experiments to test ideas for broadening its narrowband satellite communication…

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From steppe to sea, a Ukrainian drone unit hunts Russian ships

In a field in southern Ukraine, soldiers scrawled sardonic messages on a sleek grey attack drone that would soon be hunting Russian ships…

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Boeing’s MQ-28 Ghost Bat makes Farnborough Airshow debut

LONDON — An unusually warm London sun beat down on the grey body of an aircraft. Sleek and gently curved, an…

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