[ad_1] New manufacturing techniques are moving the Army toward its goal of producing 85,000 155mm artillery shells per month, starting in fiscal 2025, the assistant Army secretary for acquisition said Monday. The push is meant to help Ukraine keep up the pace of its counteroffensive and to replenish depleted U.S. stockpiles and even help other ...

[ad_1] Following a stream of Russian drone attacks that plunged Kyiv into darkness last year, the Defense Department unveiled a plan in early April: send anti-drone gun and missile trucks to Ukraine.  The 19 unidentified trucks were “important capabilities,” a senior U.S. defense official said at the time, listing them alongside more well-known systems like ...

[ad_1] JUST IN: The Biden administration will keep U.S. Space Command in Colorado, the Pentagon announced just a little bit ago, reversing a Trump administration decision to move it to Huntsville, Alabama. You can read our breaking news coverage here. Despite what anyone tells you, all basing decisions, small and large, are political. They are ...

[ad_1] AI models don’t always improve in accuracy over time, a recent Stanford study shows—a big potential turnoff for the Pentagon as it experiments with large language models like ChatGPT and tries to predict how adversaries might use such tools.  The study, which came out last week, looked at how two different versions of Open ...

[ad_1] The Army’s new tools for coordinating helicopters, tanks and infantry are on track to be delivered to some units in 2024, but are already teaching some soldiers a lesson about modern warfare. In a recent test exercise with the equipment, the Army used drones to coordinate artillery fire against attacking Denovian soldiers, said Maj. ...

[ad_1] President Joe Biden has named Deputy Chief of Naval Operations Lisa Franchetti as the next Chief of Naval Operations, according to U.S. officials, who is poised to break two glass ceilings. If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Franchetti would be the first female CNO and the first woman to serve on the Joint Chiefs ...

[ad_1] Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pretty rude reaction News that his country would not receive a firm timetable for NATO membership made headlines at the alliance summit in Vilnius last week. Of lesser attention, but perhaps of more immediate importance, is the mismatch between allied forces in Eastern Europe and their strategies for countering the ...

[ad_1] “Andrew” grew up in poverty and neither of his parents went to college. “Carl” grew up in a wealthy, well-educated family, with a father who rose through the ranks to become a colonel in the US Army. These two students are black. And their divergent stories reveal the socioeconomic diversity of black students studying ...