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WASHINGTON ― The Space Force today formally announced the appointment of Gurpartap “GP” Sandhoo as head of its new Missile Warning and Tracking Portfolio Acquisition Executive (PAE) office, as previously first reported by Breaking Defense Sandhoo will stay on in his role leading the Space Development Agency, but will be elevated from his current position as acting director to permanent director, the agency said in a press release today. According to the release, Sandhoo took on the dual-hated roles May 11. “GP brings a wealth of experience to this position and is already jumping into his new program acquisition executive…

AI models with advanced hacking capabilities like Anthropic’s Mythos should concern federal agencies that handle sensitive information, a top CIA tech official said.“I think it is a reflection point and I think people need to view it in that fashion,” said Dan Richard, associate deputy director of the CIA’s Digital Innovation Directorate. Richard spoke on a panel Friday at the Qualys ROCon Public Sector 2026 conference in Tysons Corner, Virginia.An early version of the Mythos software was released to a limited group of tech companies in April with much fanfare, due to its ability to find long-hidden software bugs and defects. Security researchers and experts reacted with…

On its surface, the U.S. chip sanctions regime appears to have locked in an American victory in the AI race. As of late 2025, the best U.S. AI chips were roughly five times more powerful than China’s leading chips; according to one analysis, that gap is projected to widen to 17 times by the second half of 2027. Yet this single-axis framing sits in striking tension with the assessment offered by U.S. industry leaders themselves. Testifying before the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee in May 2025, AMD CEO Lisa Su stated explicitly that maintaining the U.S. competitive edge in AI innovation…

Agnikul Cosmos has achieved a historic milestone by successfully test‑firing four semi‑cryogenic rocket engines simultaneously in a cluster, marking India’s first such test and a major step toward orbital launch capability.This breakthrough demonstrates reliable synchronisation of multiple 3D‑printed engines, paving the way for the Agnibaan rocket to deliver small satellites quickly and affordably.Chennai‑based Agnikul Cosmos announced that it had fired four semi‑cryogenic rocket engines together for the first time, a feat that represents a critical advance in India’s private space sector. Each of the engines was 3D‑printed as a single piece of hardware at the company’s Rocket Factory‑1, eliminating assembly…

GDN Northrop Grumman has secured a $325.5 million U.S. Army contract to develop the RangeHawk high-altitude uncrewed aircraft, a specialized airborne platform designed to track and collect… Source link

WASHINGTON — The Navy’s MQ-25 Stingray unmanned aerial system received the green light to move into low-rate initial production (LRIP), acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao said today. As part of the production decision, known as Milestone C, an LRIP Lot 1 contract for three aircraft is expected this summer, along with priced options for three Lot 2 aircraft and five Lot 3 aircraft, according to the Navy. “Unmanned refueling extends our reach against any adversary,” Cao said in a statement today. “Moving the MQ-25A Stingray to Milestone C and into production is arming our warfighters with a capability…

A single remote-controlled Ukrainian ground combat vehicle defended a “key intersection under constant adversary attack” for 45 days last summer, according to a 3rd Army Corps spokesperson who called it “Ukraine’s first fully robotic defensive operation of a position.” It likely won’t be the last.The robot—a Droid TW 12.7 armed with a machine gun—and its operator, some 10 kilometers away, “disrupted every attempted breakthrough and prevented enemy infiltration,” with no loss of Ukrainian life, the spokesperson said in a recent interview. As the United States and other militaries work to catch up, Ukraine is putting remote-controlled air and ground systems to…

The informal summit of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) held in Turkistan, Kazakhstan on May 15 offered a revealing glimpse into how Astana sees the future of Turkic cooperation. Outside observers have often viewed the OTS through one of two narrow lenses: either as a symbolic cultural project built around shared linguistic identity, or as the early foundations of a more geopolitical pan-Turkic bloc led by Turkiye. Both interpretations are increasingly incomplete. The summit in Turkistan suggested something far more pragmatic is taking shape, and Kazakhstan is looking to play a central role in shaping it. Hosted under the…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi took part in the third India‑Nordic Summit in Oslo on Tuesday, where he emphasised that democracy, rule of law and a shared commitment to multilateralism make India and the Nordic countries “natural partners.”The summit was hosted by Norway and brought together leaders from all five Nordic nations, including Iceland’s Prime Minister Kristrun Frostadottir, Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, Finland’s Prime Minister Petteri Orpo, and Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen.This marked the first visit by an Indian Prime Minister to Norway in forty‑three years, underscoring the historic nature of the engagement.In…