NASHVILLE—Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine said Thursday that autonomous weapons are going to be a “key and essential part of everything we do” when asked about how such tools would fit into the future of warfare.Speaking during a fireside chat at Vanderbilt University’s Asness Summit on Modern Conflict and…

The Defense Department has completed its $1 billion investment in L3Harris Technologies’ missile-making unit, ahead of a planned initial public offering later this year.DOD’s capital infusion is a convertible preferred security that will convert into common equity if, as planned, the IPO turns the company’s Missile Solutions business into an independent, publicly-traded company.…

NASHVILLE—The Army thinks its Apache helicopters, developed a half-century ago to kill Soviet tanks, might offer a solution to enemy drones two or three orders of magnitude smaller.As the service races to mold a counter-drone strategy based on lessons from Ukraine and now Iran, it is testing AH-64s armed with…

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