Some final sights of the Farnborough Airshow
As Breaking Defense wraps up our time in Farnborough, here are some of our favorite photos.
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Lockheed Martin Ventures to invest $100M in European defense firms
The fund is interested in emerging technologies, the general manager of Lockheed Martin’s venture arm told Breaking Defense, including quantum computing and sensing, autonomy, and advanced manufacturing technologies.
The Computer That Helped Win World War II
One summer day in 1941, a British radio operator was monitoring German military frequencies and heard something unexpected in her headphones. A later report called it “strange new music.” Sounding unlike the familiar Morse dit-dit-dah of enciphered messages sent over the German Enigma network, the “new music” was a rhythmic warble of binary teletype code…
The sights of the Farnborough Airshow Day 3
Aerial demonstrations captivated attendees during day 3 of the Farnborough International Airshow.
A new, British CCA enters the fray at the Farnborough airshow
Breaking Defense brings you the latest from Day 3 at Farnborough.
House passes 2027 NDAA while measure remains stalled in the Senate
“[There are] provisions in this bill that some folks disagree with, but understand that this is just a single step in a long process,” House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Ala., said on the chamber floor today.
Army partners with industry to alleviate Abrams engine supply chain woes
The Army organized what it called a “hackathon” to find new vendors that could help with the supply of 166 critical components causing readiness issues for the tank’s engine.
Boeing mulls building ‘many’ Ghost Bat production hubs overseas
The US airframer also announced that Hensoldt has been added to its German MQ-28 supplier base, in support of a bid to land Berlin’s CCA requirement.
Why AI Needs a “Genie Coefficient”
Major benchmarks measure what AI can do. None measure whether it does what you mean: the distance between what you ask an AI to do and the unspoken assumptions about how you want the AI to do it. We propose a new metric: the Genie coefficient.There’s often a gap between one person’s request and another’s…
Hegseth offers $37.5B price tag for ‘certain aspects’ of Iran war
In an at times contentious hearing, the defense secretary said the administration urgently needed nearly $90 billion in supplemental funding in part to cover Iran conflict-related costs.