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Ukraine’s drones still lose Starshield above 161 km/h, Zelenskyy says

“We lose Starlink and lose the interceptor,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told reporters on 17 October, Bloomberg reported. Zelenskyy said speed limits on Starshield, SpaceX’s military satellite network, remained in place across Ukraine. Ukraine’s interceptor drones lose the link above 161 km/h (100 mph), he said in audio messages on WhatsApp. The Russian jet-powered drones […]

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UK defence firms plan to invest £19.75bn over the next year

UK defence companies plan to invest a combined £19.75bn over the next 12 months, according to new research from law firm White & Case. Research company Censuswide surveyed 250 senior decision-makers at UK defence companies and defence technology start-ups for the study between 17 and 24 September. The £19.75bn is the total for those 250 firms, which plan to […]

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Anduril to build $3.7bn Baltimore shipyard for US Navy submarine parts

Anduril will invest $3.7bn in a new shipyard near Baltimore to build parts for the US Navy’s Virginia-class submarines, the defence company said on Tuesday. The Navy has also awarded Anduril a contract worth up to $2.9bn, with payments tied to demonstrated production outcomes. Together, that is $6.6bn for the submarine industrial base. President Donald […]

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Pentagon creates Autonomous Warfare Command to scale drones and AI

The US military is establishing a new command to develop and field drones, robots, and other autonomous systems across all its branches. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Autonomous Warfare Command, or AutoWarCom, on Wednesday. Hegseth made the announcement in his annual State of the Force speech to junior officers and enlisted personnel at Marine […]

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Musk, Luckey and Gingrich get 120 days to map America’s future wars

Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich will co-direct Project Meridian. The Pentagon study will identify the technology the US military needs to fight future wars. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth commissioned it on Wednesday, the Department of War said. The findings are due by 28 January 2027, 120 days after the announcement, according to […]

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Boeing beats Northrop to build the US Navy’s $20bn F/A-XX fighter

Boeing will build the US Navy’s next carrier-based fighter, the F/A-XX, after beating Northrop Grumman for the contract. The Pentagon announced the award on Tuesday. The development contract is worth 0bn to produce test aircraft, Reuters reported. CNBC and Axios put it at more than 0bn. The programme could grow to hundreds of billions of […]

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The RAF launches a new space squadron to defend UK satellites

The Royal Air Force has set up a new space squadron, the Ministry of Defence said on 23 September. No. III Space Effects Squadron is the first UK unit dedicated to disrupting, degrading and denying threats to British satellites. Air Chief Marshal Sir Harv Smyth, the Chief of the Air Staff, announced it at the […]

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US appeals court upholds Pentagon’s supply chain risk label on Anthropic

A US appeals court has upheld the Pentagon’s decision to label Anthropic a supply chain risk. The label bars the military and its contractors from using Anthropic’s Claude models. In a 2-1 ruling on Friday, the DC Circuit court of appeals denied Anthropic’s petitions to overturn the designation. Circuit Judge Gregory Katsas wrote the opinion, […]

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Airbus wins 25-year contract to build cyber gateways for France’s armed forces

France’s military runs networks at different classification levels, and data still has to move between them, and Airbus will build the checkpoints. The French defense procurement agency (DGA) has awarded the company the 25-year PARACOM contract to supply cybersecurity gateways for the networks of the Ministry of the Armed Forces and Veterans’ Affairs, Airbus said […]

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We’ve spent billions defending software. It’s time to protect execution

Cybersecurity has a fundamental blind spot. We spend enormous sums protecting software while the processor underneath it blindly executes whatever instructions it receives. That has to change. For the billions of embedded systems running cars, medical devices, industrial controllers, network equipment, and critical infrastructure, security needs an independent layer that can watch processors execute instructions. The […]

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