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Army shifting S-MET work over to new acquisition shop – Breaking Defense

AUSA 2024 — As one US Army Program Executive Office prepares to pare down the number of commercial vendors vying for a ground autonomy contract, …

Foreign policy: Where do Harris and Trump stand? – North Dakota Monitor

President Joe Biden immediately surged weapons and security aid to the key U.S. defense partner, and in April Congress approved his request for $8.7 …

US defense chief urges Israel to ensure safety of UN peacekeepers in Lebanon

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Friday he spoke with his Israeli counterpart Yoav Gallant on Thursday to discuss Israel’s operations in …

A16Z’s Boyle on Defense Tech, American Dynamism – Bloomberg.com

A16z General Partner Katherine Boyle joins Ed Ludlow to discuss Southern California’s space and defense tech ecosystem, SpaceX’s contribution to …

Video Friday: Reachy 2 – IEEE Spectrum

Pollen Robotics Reachy 2 and robotics in the DARPA Triage Challenge are featured in this edition of Video Friday, a collection of robotics videos …

Darpa Thinks Walls of Oysters Could Protect Shores Against Hurricanes | WIRED

The US defense research agency is funding three universities to engineer reef structures that will be colonized by corals and bivalves and absorb …

36th IROS to bring together top innovators, thought leaders in Abu Dhabi – Kazinform

… (DARPA) challenges, and translation of technologies from lab to market. IROS 2024 has gathered several thousand researchers, academics, leading …

Fan-in-wing powered X-plane set to change US military air combat capability – MSN

DARPA’s SPRINT program is aimed at designing, building, and flying an X-plane to demonstrate the key technologies and integrated concepts that enable …

DUJUD Selected by DARPA to Participate in BRIDGES Program – Le Lézard

… (DARPA) for the Bringing Classified Innovation to Defense and … (DARPA) for the Bringing Classified Innovation to Defense and Government …

Italy’s Avio expands to fill US Army solid rocket motor orders – Defense News

In July, Avio signed with Raytheon to develop “critical solid rocket motors for defense applications,” as well as partnering with the U.S. Army “for …