The Defense Department will finally take steps to formally stand up the congressionally mandated DOD Quantum Information Science Program and expects to publish initial guidance directives by the end of 2025.
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
The Defense Department will finally take steps to formally stand up the congressionally mandated DOD Quantum Information Science Program and expects to publish initial guidance directives by the end of 2025.
Anduril Industries and Zone 5 Technologies have wrapped up recent development sprints and initial flight tests for the prototype systems they're building for the Defense Innovation Unit's drone-defeat program.
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD -- Anduril Industries, responding to government demand signals to expand the U.S. munitions industrial base, has unveiled a new variant of its Barracuda family of software-defined, low-cost and mass-producible cruise missiles -- a surface-launched version of the Barracuda-500.
The Trump administration today released its fiscal year 2027 research and development priorities for all federal agencies, highlighting several focus areas that have already attracted sustained attention from senior Pentagon leaders.
U.S. Central Command is launching a task force aimed at rapidly delivering innovative capabilities to deployed forces, according to a new announcement.
The Defense Innovation Unit is looking for commercial technology options to replace the Navy's "fragmented landscape" of legacy IT systems used to maintain, repair and overhaul (MRO) its air and maritime fleets, according to a recent solicitation.
The Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit has tapped five companies to develop first-person-view drones and components under its inaugural Project G.I. prize challenge, aiming to equip small military teams with new kinetic capabilities in contested environments.
Private capital markets should be tapped to support the development and scaling of technologies critical to national security, the nominee to be the Pentagon's deputy technology chief told lawmakers today.
Defense industry players can now use Northrop Grumman's three semiconductor facilities to design, manufacture, package and test microelectronics within the United States for commercial and defense applications, the company announced today.
The Defense Department will review the 23 cybersecurity service providers authorized to conduct operations for the Pentagon, seeking opportunities for potential consolidation, according to a new government watchdog report.
The Defense Innovation Unit is working with the Department of Homeland Security to acquire technology that can stop "non-compliant" small vessels near U.S. maritime borders at minimal risk to anyone onboard or surrounding the watercraft, per a recently published DIU solicitation.
Apex Technologies has secured $200 million in new private funding to boost monthly production of its satellite bus platforms and more than double the size of its California manufacturing facility, CEO Ian Cinnamon told Inside Defense.
The Defense Department official leading a zero-trust implementation initiative across the enterprise says his office will come out with a new strategy to guide the effort, which could come as soon as December.
The Defense Department awarded $2 million to ReElement Technologies Corp. for its technology to separate and purify critical minerals and rare-earth elements for national security applications, the company announced today.
The Air Force Research Lab is gauging private-sector interest in developing reliable and precise position, navigation and timing (PNT) technology to coordinate swarms of small drones in GPS-denied or degraded environments with harsh physical conditions, per a request for information published yesterday.
The Defense Department will task a new industry group aimed at accelerating directed energy with more than a dozen projects per year, per an updated solicitation released Friday.
The Pentagon's plan to shorten its list of critical technology areas reflects a shift in terminology -- not a downgrading of priorities -- according to Michael Holthe, who is performing the duties of assistant defense secretary for science and technology.
Two years to the date after the Pentagon publicly launched its Replicator-1 mass drone deployment initiative, a senior official at the Defense Innovation Unit said the program has transitioned to the military services for surging and has been left in "highly capable hands."
Emil Michael said his stint as acting head of the Defense Innovation Unit will only last as long as the search for a full-time director, noting that the organization will remain an independent entity that continues to report directly to the defense secretary.
Doug Beck, the former Apple executive helming the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit since April 2023, is leaving, according to multiple reports.