Tuesday, November 11, 2025
The Pentagon’s best chance at guaranteeing properly informed decision-making in the face of climate threats would come from creating a “climate planning cell” to provide “situational awareness, modeling and decision-support,” according to a new Defense Science Board report.
The Pentagon's innovation hub and the Navy have awarded contracts to prototype small sea drones, in line with the department's Replicator program timeline to field thousands of attritable, unmanned systems by August 2025 to counter China's military mass, the Defense Innovation Unit announced Monday.
A Defense Science Board task force is recommending the Pentagon try to leverage commercial markets to rapidly scale and lower the cost of position, navigation and timing systems for military use, according to an executive summary of the advisory panel’s latest report.
The Defense Department office aimed at catalyzing private investment in technology areas deemed critical to national security expects to announce its first available funds by the end of this year, with its eye on awarding the money in early 2025, according to its director.
The global proliferation of unmanned aerial systems and the technologies to counter them has the Pentagon's technology chief predicting continued "explosive growth."
The Pentagon has released project details for several systems that have successfully transitioned to the military services via the Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve program, which senior officials have been defending amid recent congressional criticism.
Systems for the second Replicator tranche have been selected, though there are still more decisions to be made for the next round of capabilities and systems, according to the chief of the Defense Innovation Unit.
The Ukrainian military has the emerging technologies the Pentagon has been scrambling to field at the scale it desires, and the difference is risk tolerance, according to the Defense Innovation Unit's lead at U.S. European Command.
The Pentagon's technology chief said she and her team are working hard to accelerate rapid defense innovation, despite a system that seems designed to stifle it.
The next Global Information Dominance Experimentation series is going to culminate in a "worldwide joint activity" next year, according to a top official at the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office.
Senate appropriators are calling for a quarterly audit of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for its attempts at flexible budgeting, which lawmakers allege the agency has undertaken without congressional approval. (UPDATED)
Senate appropriators want to add money to the Defense Innovation Unit's fiscal year 2025 budget request, pushing DIU to sustain its engagements with "non-traditional" contractors, according to a report accompanying the upper chamber's version of the defense spending bill.
Senate appropriators say they want to slow the growth of the Pentagon's Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve in favor of the Replicator program which aims to field thousands of attritable, autonomous drones by August 2025 to counter China.
The Defense Science Board will hold closed meetings throughout the last week of August to discuss the findings of a new study focused on advanced military technologies, according to a Federal Register notice.
The Pentagon's top watchdog will review the Defense Department's Replicator effort, which aims to field thousands of inexpensive, autonomous drones by August 2025 to counter China's military mass in the Indo-Pacific, according to a memorandum issued Monday.
The Air Force needs more money to modernize key weapon systems, though the service is beginning to shift toward "cost-effective mass," the service's under secretary said Monday.
The Defense Innovation Unit says it executed flight tests in June incorporating its Blue Uncrewed Aerial System platforms with the Collaborative Low-Altitude UAS Integration Effort, allowing the organization to discern unmanned aerial systems operated by the Defense Department from others flying in the same airspace.