The U.S. military will never again rely on just one vendor of AI tools as it did with Anthropic, the defense undersecretary for research and engineering said Thursday.“We were single-threaded on one vendor, one AI vendor at the Department of War, and to integrate into classified systems is not just putting your software…
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, more commonly known as PETA, is calling on the Pentagon and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to stop spending millions of U.S. taxpayers dollars on animal experiments in foreign countries. PETA, in a letter sent to Hegseth on May 6, says that “gruesome and…
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Ukrainian companies are attracting American private investment and Pentagon interest with award-winning drones, but U.S. export laws threaten to squelch efforts to develop technology, company execs said Friday.U.S. investors are pouring money into Ukrainian defense startups. For example, Swarmer, which makes AI software to control multiple drones simultaneously, saw its…
More than two dozen lawmakers are calling on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to expedite its review of mental health therapies like psychedelics as part of multiple pieces of legislation already drafted. Military.com has reported on different legislative efforts in the House and Senate that largely center on…
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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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Earlier this week, Denver Water announced that it will soon drain water from one of Colorado’s most popular recreational fisheries: Antero Reservoir. The decision will shutter recreational opportunities at the premier trophy trout fishery, likely impacting it for years to come.Denver Water, a public utility that serves 1.5 million people…
00:00:01 Speaker 1: Hit It Phil Boom. This week on the news show, we’re talking about Senate Republicans giving a big old thumbs up to a toxic copper sulfide mine just outside of the Boundary Waters Wilderness on the Superior National Forest. Oklahoma starts letting deer breeders cut their pet…
00:00:01 Speaker 1: At two o’clock on a clear November afternoon, a single rifle shot cracked through the Big Woods of northern Maine. Shirley Smith thought her husband had just tagged a deer, but Bob Smith was gone. There was no storm, no cliff, no rushing river, just thick timber,…
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00:00:00 Speaker 1: We talked to a lot of people across country and we get asked a lot like was it like hunting there or you know, people will take that, They’ll take videos that have historically been on like Outdoor Channel or whatever where dudes are rattling in the…
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