Global Defense Digest (GDD) https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html U.S. Air Force Moves to Reclaim Responsibility for Protecting Its Bases From Air and Missile Threats All Articles Home Quantum Systems Moves Into Maritime With Two New Uncrewed Platforms Built for Undersea and Surface Operations U.S. Air Force Lays Groundwork for NATO Allies to Operate Autonomous Wingmen Alongside American Fighters FTS Rolls Out Airborne Light Combat Vehicle Designed to Meet German Special Forces Requirements Loora Secures $22 Million to Scale Its AI-Powered English Coaching Platform Top Air Force General Warns Adversaries Will Track U.S. Troops in Real Time on Future Battlefields Rafael Advances SPICE 1000 Integration Onto the F-35 Stealth Fighter Pentagon’s Munitions Reserves Fall Short for a Prolonged Conflict With China, New Assessment Finds A Fighter in Uniform and on the Senate Floor: How Lindsey Graham Defined a Career in Service Pentagon Races to Field Long-Range Strike and Penetrating Weapons Before the Next Major Conflict Quantum X Labs Recruits Former Mossad Director to Lead Strategic Push Into Dual-Use Technology Beijing Launches Massive Underwater Drone Carrier as Indo-Pacific Tensions Mount SkyStriker Clears German Evaluation as Elbit Pursues European Manufacturing Foothold Senate to Consider Cao Nomination as White House Moves to Fill Navy Secretary Post Green Bay’s Statistical Misfortune Signals a Deeper Structural Problem for the Franchise U.S. Air Force Eyes Fleet of Hundreds of Autonomous Drones Across Fighter and Surveillance Roles Within the Decade How Airmen Survived Iran’s Ballistic and Drone Strikes on U.S. Forward Bases Israeli Elite-Unit Veterans Secure $22 Million to Build an AI English Tutor for Global Learners An Elite Fund Manager Is Stacking Industrial Stocks He Believes Will Ride the AI Infrastructure Wave Cornered by U.S. Military Action, Iran Bets on BRICS to Break Its Diplomatic Siege Cybersecurity Stocks Jump as AI Chiefs Sound the Alarm on Escalating Digital Threats Israel’s Job Market Sits Near Historic Lows on Unemployment, Yet University Graduates Are Struggling to Find Work Radiation, Heat, and Latency: The Engineering Barriers Threatening AI’s Future in Orbit F-22 Pilot Honored with Air Force’s Highest Safety Honor After Preventing Catastrophic Raptor Loss Conflict, Oil Revenue, and Localization Ambitions Reshape Armored Vehicle Demand Across the Middle East Red Sea Oil Flows Face Mounting Disruption as Houthi Threat Reshapes Tanker Routes A Classroom, a Whisper, and a Nation Changed: How September 11 Unfolded for President Bush American AI Models Are Powering Russian Drone Targeting, Influence Campaigns, and Cyberattack Tools, Researchers Warn Los Angeles Rams Face Steepening Odds After Season-Opening Rout Exposes Structural Vulnerabilities Anthropic Identifies Russian and Chinese Operators Using Claude to Engineer Drone Swarms and Weapons Systems China’s Robotics Push Moves From Speed Records to Industrial Durability, With One Engineer Leading the Way The Air Force’s Sole Mosquito-Control Squadron Is Stretched Thin, Flying Outdated Aircraft With No Clear Replacement Air and Space Force Chiefs Convene as Iran Conflict Drags On and Budget Path Remains Unclear U.S. Air Force Moves Toward Portable Command Stations for Autonomous Wingman Aircraft, Contract Award Expected Mid-2026 Anthropic Says Chinese AI Firms Quietly Extracted Its Claude Model at Industrial Scale This Summer French Naval Architecture Firm MAURIC Wins Contract to Develop Patrol Vessels for Bangladesh’s Riverine Coast Guard Fleet Ultra Maritime Fields a Full U.S.-Specification Sonobuoy Portfolio, Positioning Itself as a Second Source for the Navy Ukraine’s Long Neptune Cruise Missile Reaches Novorossiysk, Striking Russian Black Sea Fleet Vessels European Defense Industry Body Warns Members to Strengthen Security After String of Suspicious Incidents Army Hands Out $196 Million in First Production Contracts Under Its Electronic Warfare Sensor Initiative With FCAS on Life Support, France Bets on a Heavily Upgraded Rafale to Carry Its Air Power Into the 2040s Pentagon’s Commercial Tech Office Pilots a Contract Structure Designed to Eliminate Clearance Delays for Nontraditional Vendors Trump Rejects the Concept of Deterrence, Calling It a Word That Has Never Worked A Veteran-Made Documentary Takes Stock of What Band of Brothers Meant — and Still Means — to the Military Israel Stands Up Dedicated Military Branch for AI, Autonomous Systems, and Battlefield Robotics Lockheed and Boeing-Anduril Advance in Army’s Intensifying Battle for Indirect Fire Protection Ukraine’s Shershen System Mixes Repurposed Air-to-Air Missiles Into a Ground-Based Air Defense Role Arctic Security Gaps Expose NATO’s Northern Flank to Accelerating Russian and Chinese Pressure