Global Defense Digest (GDD) https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Hugging Face CEO Warns U.S. AI Fragmentation Is Ceding Ground to China’s Open-Model Push All Articles Expanded North Korean Missile Transfers to Russia Could Tip the Balance Against Kyiv Home SOUTHCOM Stands Up Western Hemisphere Task Force to Counter Transnational Criminal Organizations US Air Force Clears Long-Range JDAM for Full-Rate Production After Extended Development U.S. Marines Deploy Switchblade Loitering Munitions During Korean Peninsula Training Exercise Ron Lauder Pulls Back From Politics After Pouring More Than $70 Million Into Elections and Influence Zenity Closes $125 Million Round to Harden Enterprise AI Agents Against Emerging Cyber Threats Repeated Deployment Extensions Push USS Abraham Lincoln Crew to a Breaking Point Theodore Roosevelt Becomes First Carrier Certified to Operate the MQ-25 Stingray From a Dedicated Control Center Taiwan Deploys M1A2T Abrams Tanks to Defend Taoyuan Airport in Annual Han Kuang Exercise Kratos Begins Production of XQ-58 Valkyrie Variant Equipped With Conventional Landing Gear Visa Pays $2.4 Billion for BioCatch, Betting Behavioral Biometrics Can Reshape Payment Security Canberra Secures Rights to AIM-260, Making Australia the Missile’s First Export Customer Meta AI Model Breached Its Own Sandbox in Security Test Linked to Israeli Firm Irregular Israel’s Arrow Program Readies Landmark Interceptor Test to Sustain Ballistic Missile Defense Lead SOUTHCOM’s New Standing Cartel Task Force Pulls Air Force Into a Broader Counter-Narcotics Mission Autonomous X-62 VISTA Defeats Crewed Fighter Jets in Live Intercept Trials, Air Force Confirms Green Bay Offense Finds Rhythm While Secondary Struggles at Day Six of Camp Heritage Foundation Warns US Interceptor Stockpiles Fall Short of What a Pacific War Would Demand Pentagon Drone-Defense Unit Launches AI Matchmaking Tool to Accelerate Vendor-to-Buyer Connections Arrow System Moves Toward Next-Generation Interceptors as Missile Threat Calculus Shifts Trump Reshapes the Oval Office With Gold Accents, New Artwork, and a Few Personal Touches Air Force Airman Earns Flawless Score at Service’s Premier Intelligence Training Course Arrow, David’s Sling, and Iron Dome Train Together in Unprecedented Layered Intercept Drill Israeli Startup Secures $60 Million to Harden Open-Source Software Against Runtime Attacks Iran Conflict Reshapes the Global Arms Market as Farnborough Closes Its Doors Army Eliminates Anonymous Option for Soldiers Filing Harassment and Discrimination Complaints Felicis Ventures Bets on Hard Tech With New Partner Hire Targeting Robotics and Defense Startups MailPoet Page MailPoet Page Singapore Puts French-Made Mine-Hunting AUVs Into Operational Service With Its Navy Repeated Iran Mobilizations Are Quietly Eroding Israel’s Defense Budget Marines Get Anti-Drone Ammunition From a Startup You Have Never Heard Of USS Theodore Roosevelt Wraps Indo-Pacific Deployment, Heads Home to San Diego Inside Fire Point: The Ukrainian Startup Building Missiles and Drones to Outlast a Grinding War Israel’s Defense Spending Fight: Who Controls a $133 Billion Wartime Budget U.S. Carrier Fleet Split Across Three Theaters as Abraham Lincoln Extends Record Deployment Elbit Campus Expansion Froze Yokneam’s Hotel Ambitions — But an Nvidia Deal Could Rewrite the Equation Department of Veterans Affairs to Launch Clinical Trial Using GLP-1 Drugs as a Treatment for Alcohol Dependency WWE SummerSlam 2026 Card Breakdown: What Is at Stake and Who Has the Edge Israeli Tech Sector Pulls In $1.4 Billion During July Despite Ongoing Wartime Pressures IBM and Israel’s Qedma Quantum Computing Partnership Targets Error Mitigation at Scale Shield AI and Thunder Tiger Validate Autonomous Maritime Teaming Concept Off Taiwan’s Coast Russia Launches Eighth Yasen-M Attack Submarine as Nuclear Undersea Fleet Grows Pentagon’s Revised Critical Minerals Rules Close the Waiver Loopholes That Let China Stay in the Supply Chain GAO Flags Cost Overruns and Schedule Slippage Across B-52 Upgrade Programs Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Weighs Public Listing as Wartime Costs Strain Israel’s Defense Budget U.S. Merchant Mariners Face Growing Threat as Adversaries Turn Commercial Shipping Into a Target