The new office wants to speed up the development of new ideas, increases the competition for businesses, and keeps soldiers involved throughout.

Weapons that survived multiple wars did so through continuous upgrades and proven battlefield reliability rather than replacement with newer systems. Many enduring platforms like the B-52 and M2 ...

Military history is riddled with weapons systems failing to live up to the reality of the situation on the battlefield. This can be brought about by sudden, rapid advances in contemporary technologies ...

Many military weapons failed not due to poor design but because they required ideal conditions war rarely provides. Systems dependent on clear weather, secure logistics, uncontested access and ...

The Army announced plans Monday to spend $750 million per year on a new initiative to bring Silicon Valley-style entrepreneurial speed to weapons development, particularly drone and anti-drone ...

WASHINGTON — Army Secretary Dan Driscoll said Monday he would not tolerate sending soldiers into a modern conflict with decades-old weapons, using an expletive in a public speech to highlight his ...

The U.S. continues to lag behind its adversaries in the hypersonic arms race. Both China and Russia likely have multiple operational hypersonic weapons, according to a recent congressional report, and ...

The U.S. Army demonstrated a drone kill in 2025 using a laser weapon integrated into a Stryker vehicle at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Credit: Jim Kendall/ U.S. Army The time has come for high-energy lasers.

Summary and Key Points - The cancellation of the M10 Booker in mid-2025 has ignited a rapid shift in the U.S. Army land warfare strategy. It follows a pattern of the Army cancelling many different ...

Castelion announced Oct. 24 that it has received multiple contracts to integrate its Blackbeard hypersonic weapon system onto existing U.S. Army and Navy platforms. The startup, in an announcement, ...

While the federal sequester threatens to starve American science of billions of dollars, here’s a reminder of the achievements of taxpayer-funded innovation. For the first time this year, the U.S.