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Defense Business Brief: Space Command to stay in Colorado; House and Senate pass NDAA; Some personal news; and more.
[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 ... -
On Day 1 of ownership, L3Harris pledges to invest in Aerojet Rocketdyne
[ad_1] On its first day as owner of Aerojet Rocketdyne, L3Harris Technologies pledged to make investments in what is now the company’s fourth business segment and to keep selling rocket motors to other firms. “We’ll continue to invest internally over the next few years, as some of the key businesses and programs ramp up,” Ross ... -
How the US is using open-source intel to track Russia’s war in Ukraine
[ad_1] The Pentagon’s lead military intelligence agency has been relying on public and commercially available information to keep tabs on Russia’s movements in Ukraine. The Defense Intelligence Agency recently invited a small cadre of reporters to view recovered remnants of unmanned aerial vehicles made in Iran and used by Russia in its war on Ukraine, ... -
Tanker program adds 9 ships to fuel US military in a crisis
[ad_1] Nine ships have joined a Defense Department program that puts them on call to haul fuel in a crisis, giving the Pentagon options beyond the handful of commercial tanker ships available now. The Tanker Security Program was created by the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, and enables the Department of Transportation to set up ... -
Dealing with defense travel is a one-way ticket to frustration for lawmakers
[ad_1] The Pentagon’s handling of the failed transition to a new defense travel system has resulted in “bipartisan frustration,” lawmakers said Wednesday during a House oversight and accountability hearing. “Many of us are frustrated by the lack of accountability, the lack of transparency concerning what happened here. It’s a bipartisan frustration. And, in fact, I ... -
‘More capable than anything we have’: lawmakers, witnesses, express alarm on UFO phenomenon
[ad_1] Three witnesses to unidentified aerial phenomena told Congress on Wednesday about objects performing maneuvers beyond what any known aircraft could achieve—aerial events that pose a rising threat to civilian aircraft, they said. But the unusually wide-ranging testimony also gave stage to uncorroborated accusations of a massive government cover up, expositions on the existence of ... -
AI is supposed to become smarter over time. ChatGPT can become dumber.
[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 ... -
Army’s new training simulator on track for delivery in 2024
[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. ...











