Defense Tech

Agentic AI and the Pentagon’s Integration Challenge– warontherocks.com

pgnewser February 25, 2026 0

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Agentic AI is quickly moving from demo to deployment inside the Department of Defense. But what does it actually mean to give AI “agency” — and what does it take to make those systems work on real military networks?

In this episode, Ryan sits down with Ben Van Roo, co-founder and CEO of Legion Intelligence, Jags Kandasamy, co-founder and CEO of Latent AI, and Aaron Brown, co-founder and CEO of Lumbra AI, to discuss why the real challenge is not just building smart models but getting AI agents to run on military networks and inside operational workflows. They cover deploying agents in denied environments, compressing models for the edge, orchestrating them across stovepiped systems, and the Pentagon’s struggle to scale and buy these tools fast enough to matter.

 

‘Biggest dilemma’ in homeland counter drone strategy is ‘how broad the threat exists’– www.washingtonexaminer.com

pgnewser February 23, 2026 0

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The federal government, in conjunction with state and local governments, is desperately trying to catch up to the threat posed by drones, but needs to close the gap for U.S. defenses before it’s too late.

The sheer scope and scale of what’s needed is hard to quantify. Any public event, airport, airplane, military installation, or critical infrastructure could be targeted by a drone or drone swarms, and the U.S. needs to be prepared to not only stop the perceived threat, but do so in a way that avoids collateral damage.

“The biggest dilemma is just how broad the threat exists. And then how do you layer in solutions that can take into account how much just territory is required to be defended,” Army Secretary Dan Driscoll told the Washington Examiner. “What keeps me up at night is just the sheer magnitude of the problem that is required.”

Cartel and Chinese Drones Demand Immediate FAA Action– thefederalist.com

pgnewser February 23, 2026 0

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Drones are increasingly violating American airspace. We know that tens of thousands of drone sightings on our southern border are connected with the Mexican drug and human trafficking cartels. But dozens of other drone sightings at sensitive military installations suggest hostile nation-state actors, most likely China.

As drone operations in Russia’s war on Ukraine show, the threat is no longer hypothetical — it is active and escalating. Unfortunately, a dangerous combination of bureaucratic inertia and misplaced priorities has left our borders and military installations vulnerable.

Pentagon official laments some AI companies' reluctance to fully commit to military's operations– www.washingtontimes.com

pgnewser February 18, 2026 0

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It is “disheartening” that some cutting-edge tech companies seem reluctant to fully do business with the military and support all of its operations, a key Defense Department official said Tuesday amid an escalating feud between the Pentagon and Silicon Valley firm Anthropic over the reported use of the company’s AI tool in recent U.S. Special Forces missions in Venezuela.
from www.washingtontimes.com

Ukraine’s Drone-Killer, An-28 Aerial Gunship– sofrep.com

pgnewser February 10, 2026 0

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“Ukraine is using at least one adapted Antonov An-28 Cash twin-turboprop utility aircraft as part of its anti-drone inventory. While images of the aircraft, replete with multiple drone-kill marks, had previously been published, we now get to see the aircraft’s armament, a six-barrel, Gatling-type, M134 Minigun, in action, too.” — Thomas Newdick, for The War Zone, February 5, 2026.

“It’s two in the morning. There are targets in the air in the southeast. As pilots, we try to counter these drones using our aircraft, shooting them down with a machine gun.” — Ukrainian An-28TD aircrew member, February 2026.

‘Not Allowed To Talk About It’: Trump Says US Deployed ‘Discombobulator’ Weapon During Maduro Raid– dailycaller.com

pgnewser January 27, 2026 0

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President Donald Trump revealed the U.S. military used a secret weapon he calls “The Discombobulator” during the January raid that captured Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro.

Trump made the disclosure in an interview with the New York Post from the Oval Office. He said the weapon disabled enemy equipment during the Jan. 3 operation in Caracas.

“The Discombobulator. I’m not allowed to talk about it,” Trump told the outlet. The president said Venezuelan forces armed with Russian and Chinese rockets failed to mount any defense.

USS Zumwalt Returns to Sea After Hypersonic Makeover– sofrep.com

pgnewser January 22, 2026 0

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The USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) is back on the water and one step closer to redefining its role in the US Navy. After completing builder’s sea trials at HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding, the stealth destroyer has cleared a major milestone following a modernization that turns it into the Navy’s first surface combatant built to field Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS ) hypersonic weapons.

The trials mark the culmination of months of work at Ingalls’ Pascagoula, Mississippi, shipyard, where the lead ship of the Zumwalt class underwent one of the most significant midlife transformations ever attempted on a US destroyer.

For the Navy, the moment signals that a ship once criticized for unrealized potential is moving into a mission set built around speed, reach, and strategic deterrence.

Iron Beam Fully Deployed: Israel’s Enemies Will Be Horrified– gellerreport.com

pgnewser January 15, 2026 0

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The Israelis are constantly working to improve their weaponry, both as to performance and as to cost. The Iron Dome anti-missile system, first introduced in 2006, has been impressive enough, capable of intercepting more than 90% of the missiles launched toward Israel. However, it is expensive: each interception requires the firing of two Tamir missiles. Each Tamir missile costs $40,000, meaning that each interception costs $80,000. But now the Israeli scientists at Rafael and Elbit have developed a high-energy laser system that will reduce the cost of such interceptions to the scarcely believe price of two dollars.

China’s Military Advancing Amid Churn– warontherocks.com

pgnewser January 11, 2026 0

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Simultaneous disruption and progress, with a relentless Taiwan-focused capability development deadline.

That’s the overriding theme of the 25th edition of the Department of Defense’s China Military Power Report, released on Dec. 23, 2025. Despite extensive leadership purges and ongoing disciplinary investigations across China’s military and defense industry, the 2025 report concludes that China continues to make progress toward General Secretary Xi Jinping’s 2027 “Centennial Military Building Goal” and associated warfighting capabilities against Taiwan.

The report shows China’s military undergoing simultaneous disruption and advancement, with leadership purges and procurement-related investigations generating short-term turbulence even as Xi’s armed forces surge forward.

The Case for Treating Drones as Ammunition– warontherocks.com

pgnewser November 21, 2025 0

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Ukraine burns through small drones like belts of ammunition — fed, fired, and reloaded. Piloted from behind the front lines, drones hunt on the battlefield. This summer, Ukraine’s drone production increased 900 percent to 200,000 per month from 20,000 the previous year. Costs, too, are ammunition-like: reconnaissance and first-person view drones cost in the low thousands, akin to 120mm mortar rounds and far cheaper than a $200,000 Javelin anti-tank missile. Despite limits to drone performance, the United States will certainly need more drones than it has now. Acquiring, maintaining, accounting for, and delivering drones exceeds what the U.S. Army’s supply system can do.

NATO Nations to Field Anti-Drone Shotguns  – tactical-life.com– tactical-life.com

pgnewser November 7, 2025 0

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Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS or drones) represent the future of warfare. They are already the Ukraine War’s preeminent weapon system, striking targets near the fighting front or Ukrainian and Russian cities far behind the lines. Counter-drone systems are evolving in response, but defending against drones’ multiple forms, capabilities, and missions requires a layered approach as flexible as the drones themselves.

The last defensive layer is the individual soldier faced with defending his and his comrades’ lives. Infantrymen cannot affect larger, long-range drones. But smaller, short-range First Person View (FPV) drones confront soldiers every day with deadly results. Estimates credit drones with inflicting up to 80 percent of all combat casualties in Ukraine.

China’s largest all-electric bulk carrier launched in central China – Big News Network.com

pgnewser October 23, 2025 0

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China’s biggest all-electric bulk carrier, named Gezhouba, was launched on Thursday in Yichang, central China’s Hubei Province, marking a key milestone in the country’s green and intelligent shipping sector.

The vessel, with a length of nearly 130 meters and a maximum load capacity of over 13,000 tonnes, is equipped with 12 lithium battery power units providing total energy capacity of 24,000 kWh.

Its developer said this vessel allows for rapid battery swapping and boasts a range of 500 kilometers.

Ukraine’s superweapon missile even more powerful than a Tomahawk | World | News– www.express.co.uk

pgnewser October 23, 2025 0

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Russia has been subjected to a blistering assault from a new type of Ukrainian missile, affectionately named the Flamingo.

This formidable cruise missile can carry a payload of 1,150kg, making it one of the largest missiles of its kind globally, and boasts a range of 3,000km, nearly double that of the fearsome Tomahawk missiles. This development comes as Trump seems hesitant to supply any US missiles.

Ukrainian weapons manufacturer Fire Point, the brains behind this creation, claim it can land within a mere 14 metres of its intended target.

Nuclear stocks surge after Army launches program to deploy small reactors– www.cnbc.com

pgnewser October 15, 2025 0

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Nuclear stocks rallied Wednesday after the U.S. Army launched a program to deploy small reactors.

Shares of NuScale, a small reactor developer, soared 17%. Oklo and Nano Nuclear were up nearly 7% and 4%, resepectively. The uranium company Centrus was up 13%.

The U.S. Army on Tuesday launched a program to build micro nuclear reactors in partnership with the Defense Innovation Unit. The microreactors will be commercially owned and operated with the goal of helping developers scale up their businesses, according to the Army.