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• The first drone warship just joined the Navy and now nearly every element of it is classified

  The first warship to traverse open waters without a single crew member recently joined the U.S. Navy's fleet after eight years of development and testing. And now nearly every...

• Why are Militants Using Drones? UAV Weapons have Spread Far Beyond Nation States

  The first airstrike ever launched from an unmanned drone was a failure. On October 7, 2001—the first night of the war in Afghanistan—a CIA Predator drone buzzed above a compou...

• Will our next war be fought among the stars?

  Sitting at the controls of a Boeing space-flight simulator, “docking” the company’s planned “Starliner” craft with an imaginary space station, you begin to understand why the ...

• A new U.S. policy makes it (somewhat) easier to export drones

  The Trump administration just announced a new drone export policy designed to make it easier for U.S. companies to export drones, including armed drones. Given concerns about ...

• A Global Arms Race for Killer Robots Is Transforming the Battlefield

  Over the weekend, experts on military artificial intelligence from more than 80 world governments converged on the U.N. offices in Geneva for the start of a week’s talks on au...

• Game of Drones: China Ramps up Development to Challenge U.S. Dominance

  One of China’s top drone engineers says the country’s military drone program has entered a new phase of development as China attempts to close the gap in America’s dominance o...

• Google Workers Urge C.E.O. to Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. Project

  WASHINGTON — Thousands of Google employees, including dozens of senior engineers, have signed a letter protesting the company’s involvement in a Pentagon program that uses art...

• Daniel Rosenthal

  Daniel (DJ) Rosenthal formerly served as Director for Counterterrorism at the National Security Council. He currently serves as a Senior Fellow with the Center for Cyber and H...

• Is Boeing working on a second MQ-25 drone prototype?

  ST. LOUIS — Boeing is confident it can win the Navy’s MQ-25 carrier-based tanker drone competition. In fact, it’s so bullish that it may already be on a path to building a sec...

• Google is quietly providing AI technology for drone strike targeting project

  GOOGLE HAS QUIETLY secured a contract to work on the Defense Department’s new algorithmic warfare initiative, providing assistance with a project to apply its artificial intel...

• Air Force Retiring Predator, the Drone That Changed the World

  The Predator, the unmanned aerial vehicle that redefined the U.S. military’s combat tactics while executing thousands of missions in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other war zones ove...

• Google Is Helping the Pentagon Build AI for Drones

  Google has partnered with the United States Department of Defense to help the agency develop artificial intelligence for analyzing drone footage, a move that set off a firesto...

• Good News: A.I. Is Getting Cheaper. That’s Also Bad News.

  SAN FRANCISCO — A Silicon Valley start-up recently unveiled a drone that can set a course entirely on its own. A handy smartphone app allows the user to tell the airborne dron...

• Why Drones Are Still the Future of War

  In a recent Foreign Affairs article, Jacquelyn Schneider and Julia Macdonald argue, based on their research interviewing U.S. ground troops, that troops prefer close air suppo...

• Congress Must Protect Tech From DoD Bureaucracy, And Itself: Experts

  UPDATED w/ Mahnken interview CAPITOL HILL: The US military is not ready for war against Russia or China, leading experts told the House Armed Services Committeethis morning. H...

• Shawn Brimley, military strategist who led a Pentagon modernization push, dies at 40

  Shawn Brimley, a senior Pentagon and White House official who pressed the U.S. military to embrace a future of increasingly rapid technological change, died Jan. 9 at a hospit...

• Russia says it killed rebels behind swarm drone attack in Syria, but experts see more such strikes ahead

  Russia's defense ministry said Friday it tracked down and killed the group of militants responsible for a recent coordinated drone attack against one of its bases in Syria. Ex...

• The Pentagon will arm drones in Niger, boosting the number of U.S. troops there

  The Pentagon gained approval from the Nigerien government to fly armed drones out of Niamey, Niger’s capital, a State Department official said Friday, an effort that will put ...

• How the Pentagon is preparing for the coming drone wars

  More than a decade after the improvised explosive device became the scourge of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon is battling another relatively rudimentary device...

• Chinese drones may soon swarm the market — and that could be very bad for the US

  China showed off some of its latest drone models and projects at this year's Dubai Airshow and it looks like many spectators were interested. China has seen a dramatic increas...