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Airmen practice patient movement and transport procedures onto an ambulance during Exercise Ultimate Caduceus 2024 at Travis Air Force Base, California, June 20, 2024. Ultimate Caduceus is an annual patient movement training event designed to test the capabilities of and provide field training to aeromedical evacuation and critical care air transport teams, medical staging systems, and interagency partners involved in the reception and onward movement functions for global patient movement. (DOD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Anita Chebahtah)

Transcom pursues AI to enhance patient movement ops and mass casualty response

U.S. Transportation Command officials briefed DefenseScoop on the new Mass Casualty Operations Toolkit and other AI-enabled efforts they're tackling with MIT.

3 days ago By Brandi Vincent

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth hosts a drone demonstration at the Pentagon, July 10, 2025. (U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Lance Cpl. Isaac Llanez Delgado)

Hegseth directive on ‘unleashing U.S. military drone dominance’ includes deadlines for major overhauls

Hegseth referred to uncrewed systems as “the biggest battlefield innovation in a generation.”

4 days ago By Jon Harper

A tomahawk cruise missile launches from the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Shoup (DDG 86) for a live-fire exercise during Valiant Shield 2018. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class William Collins III)

Fixing munitions shortages demands better hardware and new software

The U.S. will run out of strike missiles in a protracted conflict against China. The Pentagon can use commercial tech — hardware and software — to accelerate…

Jul 8, 2025 By Jeffrey Jeb Nadaner

Army Cyber Command, Cyber Flag 2019 — Participants in the Army’s Cyber Flag exercise in Suffolk, Virginia, in June 2019. (U.S. Cyber Command photo)

Cyber Command creates new AI program in fiscal 2026 budget

The funding follows a push from Congress for Cybercom to develop an AI roadmap.

Jul 7, 2025 By Mark Pomerleau

Pentagon’s AI office eliminates CTO directorate in pursuit of ‘efficiencies’

It's unclear how employees, responsibilities and investments were dispersed following the termination.

Jul 3, 2025 By Brandi Vincent

A Boeing unmanned MQ-25 aircraft is given operating directions on the flight deck aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77). (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Hillary Becke)

Billions for new uncrewed systems and drone-killing tech included in Pentagon’s 2026 budget plan

The Defense Department rolled out information to reporters Thursday on its FY26 budget request.

Jun 26, 2025 By Brandi Vincent

A rendering of what someone using the new Project Overmatch capability known as Maven would look like. A unified tactical display that provides insight on vessels across the world, the Maven program overlays real-time ship readiness and sustainment data right at the user’s fingertips by utilizing artificial intelligence. It was created by Project Overmatch and Palantir in collaboration. (Image found on DVIDS as stock photo courtesy of Palantir)

Navy CTO unveils list of priority areas for tech investment

The Department of the Navy's CTO issued a new memo to guide investment and modernization efforts for the Navy and Marine Corps.

Jun 25, 2025 By Jon Harper

Military vets patent hallucination-resistant, explainable AI technology

With the patent, the leaders behind Data² want to help open the black box of AI to inject more trust in the adoption and use of the…

Jun 25, 2025 By Billy Mitchell

Pentagon tapping OpenAI, other vendors for ‘frontier AI’ projects

A day after the Defense Department announced a new deal with OpenAI, an official with the Pentagon’s Chief Digital and AI Office said announcements about additional partnerships…

Jun 17, 2025 By Jon Harper

United States Navy flag on flagpole (Source: Getty Images)

Inside the Navy’s strategic pursuit to prototype and deploy genAI at scale

The Navy is expanding its rollout of AI capabilities for sailors, Marines and civilians to speedily adopt in their daily operations, via its emerging DoN GPT tool.

Jun 11, 2025 By Brandi Vincent