By Paula Thornhill, Published by Defense One, 5 September 2023 It doesn’t do organized violence—and shouldn’t pretend that it does. The nearly-four-year-old Space Force has taken pains to emphasize its uniqueness as a military service, especially vis-à-vis the Air Force. Leaders have introduced new uniforms, organizational structure, fitness test, enlisted
By George Allison, Published by UK Defence Journal, 4 September 2023 The Ministry of Defence has issued a Prior Information Notice to industry, signalling an intent to “accelerate and exploit at pace DEW as an emerging technology.” The notice serves as an advisory for a potential upcoming contract to tender
By Peter Gillibrand & Rob Thomas, Publised by the BBC, 4 September 2023 Scientists have developed an energy source which could allow astronauts to live on the Moon for long periods of time. The Nasa-led Artemis Program hopes for an outpost on the Moon by around 2030. Bangor University has
By Audrey Decker, Published by Defense One, 30 August 2023 The Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture was designed to be the “space backbone” for JADC2. The Space Development Agency is gearing up to launch its next set of satellites as it works to build a future network of hundreds of military
Part of the Chandrayaan-3 mission's Vikram lander can be seen in this image shared by ISRO. (ISRO via X) By Sethu Pradeep, Published by Indian Express, 29 August 2023 This was a big week for both ISRO and SpaceX, albeit for completely different reasons. The week that went by bore
Concept art from defense company Lockheed Martin depicts a potential application of directed-energy weapons against unmanned systems. (Photo provided/Lockheed Martin) By Colin Demarest, Published by DefenseNews, 28 August 2023 WASHINGTON — The U.S. commander in the Indo-Pacific is interested in more widely experimenting with and deploying directed-energy weapons designed to
The Air Force’s pilotless XQ-58A Valkyrie experimental aircraft is run by artificial intelligence.Credit...Edmund D. Fountain for The New York Times By Eric Lipton, Published by NY Times, 28 August 2023 An Air Force program shows how the Pentagon is starting to embrace the potential of a rapidly emerging technology, with
By Ronan Farrow, Published by The New Yorker, 28 August 2023 How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in. Last October, Colin Kahl, then the Under-Secretary of Defense for Policy at the Pentagon, sat in a hotel in Paris and
