Starlink in Ukraine
Ukrainian officials say SpaceX slowed Starlink service used by military drones, with the order reported to come from the White House, and Ukrainian forces temporarily lost some access to Starshield,…
Threads tagged defense
DoD nuclear demos: Army leases, Aberdeen IMSR, Antares space reactor
The US military is advancing several nuclear demos: the Army conditionally awarded long-term installation-power leases to three companies, with Ameresco and Terrestrial Energy to deliver an IMSR at…
Gecko Robotics' $300M Navy contract and the 'core military capability' claim
Gecko Robotics has won a $300 million contract with the U.S. Navy, its first navy-scale award for defense-inspection robots. The company says the deal signals the Pentagon treats it as a core…
SoftBank eyes an $18B security-firm takeover
SoftBank is reported to be eyeing an $18 billion takeover of the largest private security-guard firm in the US, with plans to swap human guards for robots. The target is unnamed, and no terms beyond…
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Team Atlanta: DARPA AIxCC's AI bug-hunting continues past the competition
Closed 2026-10-27: the thread's items carried no hard news — a profile piece without a development to track; reopens if AIxCC's teams produce news.