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Sailors of the Keyport Dive Locker prepare two divers for a training session in the bay outside the locker at Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Keyport, Wash., Sept.9, 2024. Photo by Air Force Staff Sgt. Eugene Oliver
Pentagon, (January 17, 2025): On a blustery, cool autumn day, two divers at Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Keyport, Washington, donned wetsuits, helmets and a tangle of hoses to hop into Liberty Bay for routine training. Four fellow divers from the Keyport Dive Locker circled them to make sure all the various pieces of equipment were hooked up and working correctly.
It wasn't a necessary training, but one that couldn't hurt considering the missions the sailors of the Dive Locker are called to perform.
Read more: TORPEDO TESTS, SALVAGE & MORE: SPEND A DAY AT NUWC DIVISION KEYPORT'S DIVE LOCKER
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An illustration shows an M1 Abrams tank firing its weapon. Graphic illustration by Regina Ali, DOD
Pentagon, (Dec. 12, 2024): The electromagnetic spectrum is required for nearly every aspect of space-based communications, from satellite-to-satellite to satellites-to-soldiers on the ground. Ensuring the spectrum needed for that communication is protected for use by the U.S. and its allies, increasingly means adopting technology developed in the commercial sector.
Over the past few decades, the commercial sector has spent four times as much on research and development than the federal government, including in areas like spectrum management, said Air Force Maj. Gen. Steven J. Butow, the military deputy director of the Defense Innovation Unit, while speaking Wednesday at the Association of Old Crows International Symposium and Convention, just outside Washington.
Read more: COMMERCIAL TECH AT HEART OF FUTURE DEFENSE SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT
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Pentagon, (Oct. 29, 2024): Microchips enable virtually every military system, from ships, planes, tanks, long-range munitions, radar and communication gear to night vision, satellites, sensors — making them vital to the Defense Department.
Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks spoke today to industrial, government and academic leaders at the 2024 Microelectronics Commons Annual Meeting in Washington.
"Every day, from the Indo-Pacific to the North Atlantic to the Middle East and beyond — from the ocean floor to outer space to cyberspace — as American warfighters stand the watch, they depend on chips to help them defend our country, our allies and partners, and our interests," Hicks said.
Read more: WITH INDUSTRY HELP, DOD STRIVES TO BE LEADER IN MICROCHIP RESEARCH, PRODUCTION
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A rocket carrying a National Reconnaissance Office payload launches from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va., March 21, 2024. Photo by Brady Kenniston/Rocket Lab, Courtesy Photo
Pentagon, (Oct. 17, 2024): The National Reconnaissance Office remains focused on maintaining the United States' intelligence advantage amid rapid technological advancements and evolving threats, a senior leader from the agency said today.
Troy Meink, NRO's principal deputy director, said these forces, combined with growing stakeholder demands for real-time data, have created a generational change in how the agency innovates and deploys new technology to serve the warfighter and intelligence community partners.
Read more: NRO OFFICIAL DISCUSSES AGENCY'S FOCUS ON MAINTAINING U.S. INTELLIGENCE EDGE
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Ellen Lord, the former undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, and Heidi Shyu, right, the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, speak during a discussion at the National Defense Industrial Association's Emerging Technologies for Defense Conference and Exhibition in Washington, D.C., Aug. 9, 2024. Photo by C. Todd Lopez, DOD
Pentagon, Aug. 9, 2024. For several decades now, autonomous systems including aircraft, ground vehicles and waterborne craft have proliferated. While there hasn't been a direct assault on a U.S. military base yet, autonomous systems remain a threat and something the Defense Department is seeking solutions for.
"If you look at the situation now, which is something easily predictable back in, I will say, two decades ago ... you're already seeing the increase in number of ... unmanned systems," said Heidi Shyu, the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering. "With that increasingly growing, exponentially worldwide, the obvious thing we have to think about is how are we going to counter that. Because we already have unmanned systems that are intruding into our installations."
Read more: DOD NEEDS SOLUTIONS FOR THE PROLIFERATION OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES, DEFENSE OFFICIAL SAYS