Saturday, October 17, 2026

Firestorm Labs builds drones aboard USS Essex without shore resupply

A defense technology company produced 3D-printed drones aboard a Navy ship at sea using a containerized microfactory, aiding the Navy in its pursuit of easily built autonomous technology that can quickly boost a warship’s weapons capacity.Firestorm Labs manufactured more than 1,000 parts and 12 of its proprietary 3D-printable first-person view Squall drones aboard the Wasp-class…

Trump-class battleship program will cost $275 billion, CBO report says

The potential cost of the Navy’s new nuclear-powered battleship procurement program is estimated to be an eyewatering $275 billion, with the first Trump-class battleship (BBG(X)) costing $23.4 billion, according to a Congressional Budget Office report published Wednesday.The Trump administration in December announced its intention to build a new class of large surface combatants, designated as…

Chinese telecoms kept footholds in US despite crackdowns, probe finds

Years after federal regulators invoked national security to push three Chinese state-owned telecommunications providers out of the American market, the companies never fully left, a new House probe has found. China Telecom, China Mobile, and China Unicom retained equipment, data-center space and connections to other networks in the United States after the Federal Communications Commission…

Pentagon counterdrone task force has a new AI-powered marketplace

The Pentagon’s counterdrone task force awarded Kaizen Laboratories $15 million to build a “two-way” marketplace designed, in part, to make selling tech to foreign militaries easier.  The site was built from a “blank slate” and developed to facilitate the Pentagon’s Foreign Military Sale Fast Lane Initiative, Nikhil Reddy, Kaizen’s co-founder and CEO, told reporters ahead…

OPM breach victims could get identity protection for life

Federal employees and contractors whose sensitive personal data was stolen in the massive Office of Personnel Management breaches disclosed a decade ago would receive identity protection for the rest of their lives under new bicameral legislation. Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chair Mark Warner, D-Va., and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., plan to introduce the RECOVER…

The confidence deficit in space
Defense

The confidence deficit in space

Satellite operators make decisions based on the quality and confidence of orbital data they receive. But new research indicates that such data must be improved in order for space safety and security to be effective, argues Dan Oltrogge.