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WASHINGTON — The grounding of United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Vulcan heavy lifter could result in launch delays and/or reassignments to other launch providers for multiple upcoming Space Force and National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) missions, according to a senior service official. Lt. Gen. Douglas Schiess, Space Force deputy chief of operations, told the House Armed Services Committee on Thursday that the service is still “actively looking through what the impacts will be” but said “several launches coming up” could be affected. Specifically, those include the first Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared – Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (Next-Gen GEO), a joint Space Force-NRO SILENTBARKER…
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama— Nine months ago, the 4th Infantry Division’s commander told an audience that he would be perfectly happy to take a piece of tech that does 60 percent of what the Army needs and let his soldiers’ feedback inform the remaining 40. On Wednesday, he said he’d like to switch those ratios.Gen. Pat Ellis and his soldiers have been helping the Army develop its next-generation command-and-control software as the service tries out its new approach to acquisition, taking existing technology and putting it into the field as developers stand by to integrate soldier feedback. “We’ll go 40 percent,” Ellis said…
In 2022 170 Scimitars were in British Army service, but the fleet was axed in 2023. Credit: UK MoD/Crown copyright Latvia has started transferring CVR(T) tracked armoured vehicles to Ukraine to equip a battalion-level unit Ukraine stresses funding shortages; Latvia previously pledged 0.25% of GDP annually and the EU recently approved a €90bn support package Latvia operates CVR(T) variants like Scimitar/Spartan; Ukraine’s existing CVR(T) fleet has seen combat losses Ukraine has announced that Latvia has begun the transfer of a batch of Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (Tracked) – also known as CVR(T) – armoured fighting vehicles as part of ongoing military…
India’s private space sector has notched up another remarkable achievement with the successful hot-fire test of the single-piece Agnite engine, a key propellant for Agnikul Cosmos’s Agnibaan rocket.This engine powers the booster stage of the orbital-class launch vehicle designed specifically for small satellites, posted Agnikul on its Instagram handle.Measuring a full metre in length, the chamber represents a breakthrough in additive manufacturing, having been 3D-printed as a single piece from Inconel, a superalloy renowned for its high-temperature resilience.The Agnite engine stands out due to its innovative propulsion architecture. It is driven by turbopumps controlled and operated by electric motors, marking…
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GLOBAL FORCE 2026 — The Army has officially launched its unmanned aerial systems marketplace aimed at allowing warfighters across the Defense Department, allied nations and other government agencies the ability to purchase drones as easily as placing an Amazon order. The marketplace, launched Tuesday, has been in the works for several months and was developed by Amazon Web Services and the Army Enterprise Cloud Management Agency, according to a press release from the service. For now, interested vendors can respond to a commercial solutions opening (CSO) which links them to the UAS marketplace where they can enter their product, and…
The debate about lethal autonomy—core to the Trump administration’s fight with Anthropic—obscures a deeper danger of the Pentagon’s rapid adoption of commercial AI tools: they might weaken the U.S. military’s ability to tell fact from fiction.New research suggests that relying on AI to do various tasks can erode one’s native ability to do them. Military commanders are taking note. “The more you use AI, the more you will use your brain in a different way,” said French Adm. Pierre Vandier, NATO Supreme Allied Commander for Transformation, in a conversation in Defense One’s “State of Defense” series. “And so [we need to] be able to…
The MARTE project aims to conduct study and design activities for a future MBT system that meets the needs of the EU states. Credit: Saab. The Main ARmoured Tank of Europe (MARTE) consortium has reached a “midterm milestone” in the development of Europe’s future main battle tank (MBT), following the European Commission’s formal approval of key deliverables. This milestone comes more than one year after the project’s official launch in December 2024, supported by a grant of approximately €20m ($23m) from the European Defence Fund (EDF). Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged…
India’s indigenous navigation satellite system, NavIC, has suffered a serious setback with the failure of its last operational atomic clock aboard IRNSS-1F. This malfunction, which occurred on 10 March, has left only three satellites capable of delivering position, navigation, and timing services.Experts warn that at least four satellites with functioning atomic clocks are required for the system to operate effectively, meaning NavIC is currently unable to provide reliable coverage.The implications of this failure are particularly grave for India’s security and strategic needs. Navigation systems like NavIC are designed with dual signals: an open civilian signal and a restricted military-grade signal…
Sergey E. Ivashchenko, RCD Naval warfare is undergoing a profound transformation and is increasingly