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The Pentagon has quietly asked defense contractors for ways to spot enemy missile launchers -- so the US can destroy them before they even fire.

The existing, expensive network can't do what the Army needs. So is the solution outsourcing to the private sector?

PENTAGON: More troops are heading to the US border with Mexico, Pentagon officials said on Friday. That brings the number deployed from the current 5,000 to about 6,000, even as the Pentagon considers transferring close to $4 billion to support the Border Patrol and build infrastructure. About 2, ...

SAN DIEGO: If the Navy ever hopes to reach its goal of a 355-ship fleet, it won't be by simply building new hulls and launching them. Instead, ...

Will high-tech hardware developed to protect aircraft translate to the mud and dust of ground combat?

The Cold War has not returned, but the Russians have.В The challenge for the Trump Administration is less about whether the US cares about European defense; it is much more about a strategic shift of American attention to dealing with the Chinese and North Korean threats.

WASHINGTON The massive and troubled $10 billion cloud contract the Pentagon has been pursuing has run into another snag. DoD revealed Tuesday it has obtained 'new information' pointing to potential of conflicts of interest in the competition, ...

In Iraq, M113 variants were deemed too vulnerable to roadside bombs and confined to base. But in a fast-moving mechanized war in Eastern Europe, the armored brigades would need support vehicles that stand a chance against Russian firepower.

'He said you've got tremendous people, you prototype pretty effectively, and you're absolutely terrible — he had some more colorful words than that — for machine learning,' Gen. Thomas said. 'It gave me a spark ... and turned me into a zealot.'

WASHINGTON The massive and troubled $10 billion cloud contract the Pentagon has been pursuing has run into another snag. DoD revealed Tuesday it has obtained 'new information' pointing to potential of conflicts of interest in the competition, ...

WASHINGTON: The first concrete step to creating an independent force of trained and equipped space warriors occurred today — but that's not the most important step on space the nation should take, the Air Force Chief of Staff said today. Setting up Space Command, ...

Even as one official warned that budget pressures would squeeze the budget, another said the nation must expand the defense industrial base to build a 355-ship Navy.

If RAVEN succeeds in the next, more challenging round of tests, the BAE jammer will ultimately go on the 1980s-vintage M2 Bradley. That's a big part of the Army's urgent push to protect American armored vehicles against Russian-made anti-tank missiles in widespread use around the world.

Most of the system that allows the president to launch nuclear weapons and to know what the enemy is doing with theirs is ancient. No one yet agrees what it must replaced with. And no one knows how much it will cost, ...

In the next six to 12 months, country after country is deciding what companies get to build new 5G networks. India and Italy remain open to a Huawei bid, at least for now; Britain, Canada, and Germany are on the fence; while France, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand have said no.

Most of the system that allows the president to launch nuclear weapons and to know what the enemy is doing with theirs is ancient. No one yet agrees what it must replaced with. And no one knows how much it will cost, ...

'The SOF guys are less risk averse than conventional ground forces, so they're more apt to push the limit,' said Bob Work, father of the AI-driven Third Offset Strategy. 'Their commanders also have embraced AI and autonomous ops.... ...

'We've spent a lot of time over the past years playing defense,' Rear Adm. Ronald Boxall, director of surface warfare, said at the West 2019 conference here. 'The best defense is a good offense, and the idea that we will go after the threat -- at range -- is something that we have to be able to do.'

'The SOF guys are less risk averse than conventional ground forces, so they're more apt to push the limit,' said Bob Work, father of the AI-driven Third Offset Strategy. 'Their commanders also have embraced AI and autonomous ops.... ...

'I think Russia and China are in a better position than we are at the moment on Artificial Intelligence,' Sen. Sen. James Inhofe said. I asked if he would press hard for more money. Answer: 'To me, there are other things that need to be done first.'