2025 in review: defense systems

USAF plan to fly C-5, C-17s even longer elicits concern
Service says it must hedge towards delays to deliberate Subsequent-Technology Airlift airplane.November 25, 2025 | Thomas Novelly

NATO has constructed a cloud for Ukraine’s labeled battle knowledge
The final hurdle is determining information-sharing insurance policies to maintain all of it protected.November 25, 2025 | Lauren C. Williams

Air Power’s AI ambitions imply simplifying its tangle of networks
Over the following yr, battle-networks chief goals to scale back techniques to a “rational quantity.”September 25, 2025 | Lauren C. Williams

Pentagon stands up new process pressure to coordinate anti-drone efforts
The Military can be in control of the outfit, which can change the Joint Counter-small Unmanned Plane Methods Workplace.August 28, 2025 | Meghann Myers

What number of drones does it take to interchange a destroyer?
Recent off a summer time of testing robotic boats, the Navy’s Process Power 66 needs to show classes into metrics.August 27, 2025 | Lauren C. Williams

Pentagon reductions set again vital AI-data platform
After customers flocked to Advana, DOD’s AI workplace laid out a plan to maintain it rising. Then got here DOGE.August 20, 2025 | Patrick Tucker

Can COFFEE filters calm the spectrum tug-of-war?
A DARPA mission goals to assist navy and industrial gear squeeze extra use out of hotly coveted frequencies.August 8, 2025 | Lauren C. Williams

House Power to launch floor target-tracking satellites in 2028
The brand new functionality will first go to forces within the Indo-Pacific first.August 4, 2025 | Audrey Decker

Meet the ‘cobots’ that might decrease the price of constructing submarines
A uncommon peek at Electrical Boat’s manufacturing line finds robots slicing metal—and even welding.July 24, 2025 | Lauren C. Williams

Safe comms with allies is difficult. The Pentagon needs to alter that
The division is engaged on an effort to streamline a fancy set of labeled networks they use with allies and companions.June 28, 2025 | Lauren C. Williams