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U.S. House GOP rolls out aid for Ukraine, Israel; votes planned on TikTok, border security

The Ukraine bill would appropriate nearly $48 billion to the U.S. Defense Department to provide Ukraine with training and equipment, to replenish U.S. …

F-35 program could reshuffle long-term upgrade plan, deliver TR-3 jets early without full capability

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China Criticizes U.S. P-8A Surveillance Flight Through Taiwan Strait – USNI News

The P-8A Poseidon aircraft flew from the north to the south of the strait, according to Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense. U.S. 7th Fleet …

Pentagon takes AI dogfighting to next level in real-world flight tests against human F-16 pilot

DARPA’s Air Combat Evolution program has been using a modified F-16 known as the X-62A VISTA (Variable In-flight Simulator Test Aircraft) to put …

DARPA ACE & USAF X-62A Achieve World First for AI in Aerospace – YouTube

DARPA’s Air Combat Evolution (ACE) program has achieved the first-ever in-air tests of AI algorithms autonomously flying a fighter jet against a …

DARPA Achieves Major Breakthrough with AI-Controlled Aircraft – FLYING Magazine

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, is a branch of the U.S. Department of Defense developing ambitious, outlandish aircraft …

USAF Test Pilot School and DARPA announce breakthrough in aerospace machine learning – DVIDS

The teams worked together to test breakthrough executions in artificial intelligence algorithms using the X-62A VISTA aircraft as part of DARPA’s Air …

DARPA’s Groundbreaking “ACE” Program and X-62A Becomes First AI-Controlled … – The Debrief

DARPA’s ACE program achieves a milestone with the first AI jet to successfully engage in a real-world dogfight against a manned F-16.

Rethinking the Role and Influence of U.S. Defense and Foreign Policy Think Tanks

Think tanks have no shortage of ideas, but for their ideas to take hold, policymakers and other leaders must have the capacity to listen.

What a TikTok Ban Would Mean for the U.S. Defense of an Open Internet

Global digital rights advocates are watching to see if Congress acts, worried that other countries could follow suit with app bans of their own.