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Over the last several years, the federal government has been laser-focused on rebuilding manufacturing capacity in the United States, and the Pentagon in particular has been focused on reducing ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama — The Defense Department’s organizational overhaul to speed up acquisition is not just about the ...

Few areas of defense technology are evolving as rapidly as unmanned systems. From the battlefields of Ukraine to emerging Indo-Pacific deterrence efforts, drones and autonomous systems are reshaping ...

For nearly a decade, the term “anomalous health incidents” has served as a deliberately neutral descriptor for a constellation of neurologic, cognitive and systemic manifestations first brought to ...

The Special Operations Forces Rapid Acquisition Consortium for Emerging Requirements — or SOF RACER — is a partnership with artificial intelligence company GovSignals and consulting agency BMNT ...

Food delivery robots and robotaxis are becoming a common sight in major cities across the United States. However, these autonomous systems pose a homeland security risk should nefarious state or ...

A recent Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency prize challenge pushed the bounds of long-held standards in the vertical ...

The Government Accountability Office’s annual assessment of Homeland Security Department programs released in June painted a ...

There is a lot of discourse about what the government and armed services can do to bolster domestic production, and a lot of it comes down to creating a healthier supply base that is willing to take ...

The Navy is taking on its largest-ever construction and restoration effort with its multi-billion-dollar Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program, but it lacks the consistent evaluation needed to ...