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In a Fox News interview over the phone on Sunday, Trump was asked why the Department of Defense has set up a UFO task force. His answer was perplexing.
Military

By Victor Tangermann

The US Army is developing augmented reality goggles for dogs to help protect their human guardians by allowing them to command the dog from a distance.
Military

By Victor Tangermann

Russia says it successfully tested its Zircon, a hypersonic nuclear missile that can travel nine times the speed of sound, on Tuesday.
Military

By Dan Robitzski

The UK military has created a drone that's equipped with two shotgun barrels and a "machine vision" system to identify targets indoors.
Military

By Victor Tangermann

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency just handed out a $14 million dollar contract to develop a nuclear thermal propulsion system in space.
DARPA

By Victor Tangermann

Army officials want to upgrade SpaceX's Starlink satellites to serve as a navigational network more precise and secure than GPS.
Military

By Dan Robitzski

The Air Force just awarded a contract to develop lasers that can detonate landmines and other hazards from a safe distance.
Military

By Dan Robitzski

When Congress allocated $1 billion to the Pentagon to shore up medical supplies, it instead funneled the money to military contractors.
Military

By Dan Robitzski

Anduril, a defense-tech startup founded by Oculus Rift creator Palmer Luckey, has unveiled a new drone called the Ghost 4.
Military

By Victor Tangermann

The Air Force deployed four-legged "robot dogs" to defend its perimeters during a recent field test, as The Drive reports.
Military

By Victor Tangermann

DARPA is training artificial intelligence algorithms to fly fighter planes then pitting them against each other in virutal combat.
DARPA

By Dan Robitzski

The Marine Corps just issued a memo banning all servicemembers from mining cryptocurrency like Bitcoin on government-issued devices.
Military

By Dan Robitzski

DARPA recently deployed a tiny camera satellite that the agency hopes can take sharp images of exoplanets that are usually washed out of pictures.
DARPA

By Dan Robitzski

Russia recently tested a weapon capable of shooting down satellites in orbit, which has the Pentagon concerned about off-world escalation.
Military

By Dan Robitzski

National security contractor Sierra Nevada Corporation has won a Pentagon contract to turn its Shooting Star cargo spacecraft into a space outpost.
Military

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese officials may start administering an early candidate for a COVID-19 vaccine to China's military. Early trials showed it had limited efficacy.
Military

By Victor Tangermann

Peter Williams, formerly a physicist at a nuclear weapons research facility, claims that his superiors tinkered with important models then covered it up.
Military

By Dan Robitzski

US armed forces killed the suspected head of a Qaeda affiliate in Syria this month using an inert Hellfire missile warhead with six blades.
Military

By Victor Tangermann

The US Senate Intelligence Committee wants US intelligence agencies and the Pentagon to release all data relating to "unidentified aerial phenomenon."
Military

By Victor Tangermann

A new Defense Department report identifies Russia and China's nuclear capabilities as an immediate threat to U.S. satellites.
Military

By Dan Robitzski

Netflix was way ahead in registering a trademark for "Space Force" than the military, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Military

By Victor Tangermann

The National Guard and law enforcement flew surveillance planes above the heads of thousands of protesters marching in solidarity of George Floyd.
Military

By Victor Tangermann

A 23-year-old federal program lets the Pentagon sell cops military gear and weaponry for the cost of shipping, all without providing training or guidelines.
Military

By Dan Robitzski

During a test, a powerful laser weapon system on board the amphibious US Navy ship USS Portland "successfully disabled an unmanned aerial vehicle."
Military

By Victor Tangermann

The Pentagon has released"hazard reports" that give us more details about a series of encounters between US Navy pilots and "unidentified aerial phenomena."
Military

By Victor Tangermann

DARPA is preparing to launch the first experimental satellite of its Blackjack network, which would function like a military version of SpaceX's Starlink.
DARPA

By Dan Robitzski

DARPA developed a new test for COVID-19 that can spot an infection within 24 hours, even earlier than people start spreading the coronavirus to others.
Military

By Dan Robitzski

The U.S. Space Force recently acquired its first offensive weapon: a satellite jammer that can block communications from the ground.
Military

By Dan Robitzski

A top Pentagon general said during a Tuesday briefing that the "weight of evidence" points towards the coronavirus having "natural" origins.
Military

By Victor Tangermann

A team of security researchers bought a German armed forces laptop for only 90 euros ($99) on eBay that contained classified military information.
Military

By Victor Tangermann

Photos emerged this week, on social media, of dolphins loaded into a military transport jet — chilling, like blocks of tofu, in shallow tubs of water.
Military

By Jon Christian

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is developing a nuclear-powered rocket to move cargo around Earth's orbit.
DARPA

By Jon Christian

An executive order mobilized the entire U.S. military to prepare for a potential COVID-19 pandemic, should the outbreak ever progress to that point.
Military

By Dan Robitzski

Soon after the launch of Pokémon Go, players reportedly began wandering onto Canadian military property in pursuit of the game's virtual creatures.
Military

By Kristin Houser

Artificial intelligence researchers are studying the brain waves and eye movements of gamers to train an AI that can control fleets of military robots.
DARPA

By Kristin Houser

The U.S. Army is working with chemists to develop fabrics that can absorb and neutralize nerve agents for use in future military uniforms. 
Military

By Kristin Houser

Boeing has quit DARPA's Experimental Spaceplane (XSP) project, prompting the military agency to announce it was killing the project altogether.
DARPA

By Kristin Houser

A new report suggests that the U.S. military might be holding on to more footage of a mysterious 2004 "unidentified aerial phenomenon" UFO encounter.
Military

By Victor Tangermann

Pentagon officials signed a memo earlier this week urging members of the military to stop using consumer DNA tests, calling them a security threat.
Military

By Dan Robitzski

The radioactivity from a nuclear blast in space could disable crucial satellites, so the military is trying to find a way to scrub them clean.
Military

By Dan Robitzski

In a year filled with technological breakthroughs of all stripes, military technology really pushed the limits of what we thought was possible this year.
Military

By Kristin Houser

The U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) is reportedly testing bullets that can be shot underwater.
Military

By Victor Tangermann

DARPA-funded scientist Christoffer Heckman argues that some sort of new guidelines are needed to keep engineers from building autonomous weapons.
DARPA

By Dan Robitzski

The Defense Department released a new report detailing its goals and plans for creating cyborg soldiers by the year 2050.
Military

By Dan Robitzski

NATO has added space as its fifth operational military domain, meaning the organization will now protect member nations' off-world interests.
Military

By Kristin Houser

DARPA is funding research into bacteria for bomb detection that could sense explosives below the ground and then glow on its surface.
DARPA

By Kristin Houser

Several witnesses to the U.S. Navy's 2004 UFO encounter have detailed the immediate aftermath of the event, and that the video was seized by the military.
Military

By Kristin Houser

Hyperstealth Biotechnology has filed a patent on a new invisibility cloak material that bends light to make objects disappear.
Military

By Kristin Houser

A Pentagon report predicts that American infrastructure and the U.S. military could collapse within 20 years due to the ravages of climate change.
Military

By Dan Robitzski

China is building a flying saucer-like experimental attack helicopter, and according to state media, it could fly as soon as 2020.
Military

By Jon Christian

France is assembling a "red team" of sci-fi writers to help it predict what sorts of technologies it might face on the battlefield of the future.
Military

By Kristin Houser

The US military PR unit took to Twitter to "joke" that it would attack anyone who tried to storm Area 51 with a stealth bomber.
Military

By Kristin Houser

Pengyi Li from China attempted to smuggle sensitive spacecraft and military missile components out of the U.S. according to documents obtained by Quartz.
Military

By Victor Tangermann

After hackers revealed flaws in the F-15's cybersecurity, the Air Force plans to invite white hat hackers to probe an active satellite for vulnerabilities.
Military

By Dan Robitzski

A new delivery drone called the Silent Arrow GD-2000 could replace military airdrops, delivering supplies by drones to battlefields at half the cost.
Military

By Dan Robitzski

Companies like Postmates that have launched fleets of delivery robots still depend on human operators to occasionally grab the wheel.
Military

By Dan Robitzski

In an inexplicable tweet, DARPA called all city dwellers to please find them "commercially managed underground urban tunnels and facilities."
DARPA

By Victor Tangermann

The Pentagon is considering launching a network of satellites that would be able to identify and track any acts of aggression in outer space.
Military

By Dan Robitzski

The U.S. Space Command, the military's 11th united combatant command, will launch next week, according to Mike Pence's announcement.
Military

By Dan Robitzski

U.S. Army General Paul Funk found that the Army is woefully unprepared for informational warfare in the future, and that logistical systems are outdated.
Military

By Dan Robitzski

The CDC has ordered a military germ lab to "cease and desist" all research involving high-level disease-causing materials after a failed safetly inspection.
Military

By Kristin Houser

For the last nine years, the U.S. government has been working on a top-secret military artificial intelligence "brain" platform called "Sentient."
Military

By Dan Robitzski

DARPA assembled a team called Squad X that uses robots to scout out a battlefield before human soldiers engage in combat.
DARPA

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon and Microsoft are bidding for a $10 billion Pentagon contract for a wartime cloud computing system, but lawsuits over favoritism slowed the process.
Military

By Dan Robitzski