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RAF Typhoons Intercept Russian Aircraft Over the Baltics

On Tuesday 14 May Typhoon jets launched a Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) scramble out of Ämari Air Base in response …

Training Artificial Intelligence to Win a Dogfight

Artificial intelligence has defeated chess grandmasters, Go champions, professional poker players, and, now, world-class human experts in the online strategy …

BrightCloud has been repackaged into a rectangular-section body to fit the U.S.-standard AN/ALE-47 dispenser. Leonardo image

U.S. Air National Guard to Trial Leonardo’s BriteCloud Expendable Active Decoy

By Industry News Release

Leonardo has announced at the Electronic Warfare Europe conference (Stockholm, 13-15 May) that the United States Department of Defense has …

This illustration depicts how important precision landing is to a successful lunar mission. The identification of level ground near scientifically important and hazardous sites is essential for the success of long-term missions.

NASA Awards $106 Million to US Small Businesses for Technology Development

By NASA

Managing pilotless aircraft and solar panels that could help humans live on the Moon and Mars are among the technologies …

The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) transits the Pacific Ocean. Theodore Roosevelt is conducting routine operations in the eastern Pacific.

Exercise Northern Edge 2019 Kicks Off In Alaska

By U.S. Navy News Release

Approximately 10,000 U.S. military personnel are participating in exercise Northern Edge 2019 (NE19), a joint training exercise hosted by U.S. …

Marine Corps Establishes Cyber Auxiliary

By U.S. Marine Corps News Release

The Commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. Robert Neller, announced last month the establishment of the Marine Corps Cyber Auxiliary …

U.S. Air Force Special Tactics Airmen with the 24th Special Operations Wing perform avalanche training at Moran, Wyoming, Dec. 13, 2016. Special Operations Weather Team Airmen have been an integral piece of Special Tactics with unique training to conduct multi-domain reconnaissance and surveillance across the spectrum of conflict and crisis.

Air Force Transitions Enlisted Specialty, Grows Special Tactics Capabilities

By U.S. Air Force Press Release

Enlisted Airmen have been analyzing weather since the very beginning of American military flight in 1917. Decades of hard-earned experience …

Sgt. Weston Patton, a cannon crewmember and chief assigned with Battery A, 4th Battalion, 27th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, scans the horizon to keep sight of potential obstacles, such as wildlife and obtrusive terrain features while participating in Table XVIII gunnery qualification at Dona Ana Range Complex, New Mexico, May 7. Leaders such as Sgt. Patton use their wealth of experience to teach field artillery and warrior skills to their junior Soldiers to ensure combat readiness and deployability of the 4-27 FA.

Agile and Lethal: Teamwork Is Key for Artillery Soldiers

By U.S. Army Press Release

By Spc. Matthew Marcellus

As waves of heat, sand and a blistering wind scorched the vast Chihuahuan desert at the …

Artificial Intelligence to Accelerate Science

By Paul Cohen

The technology of science is as old as science itself. Astrolabes and microscopes, image-displaying tachistoscopes and gene sequencers, mass spectrometers …