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Air Force Accelerates Battle Staff Decisions Sevenfold With Inaugural DASH AI Experiment

In its first DASH experimentation, the US Air Force and Shadow Operations Center – Nellis coders spent two weeks developing ‘agentic AI’ decision-support tools, which staff officers then evaluated in simulated high-intensity conflict scenarios. The AI Transformational Model accelerated staff decision cycles by a factor of seven.

2025-06-20T05:35:20.300486-07:00

Space.com

NASA, DoD Rehearse Artemis 2 Abort Recovery Procedures

2025-06-19T09:03:01.317578-07:00

Politico

US Bolsters Airpower with Tankers to Europe, Nimitz Carrier Redeploys to Middle East

2025-06-16T10:30:02.064471-07:00

FlightGlobal

Near Earth Autonomy and Honeywell Complete First Autonomous Leonardo AW139 Flight for USMC Aerial Logistics Connector Program

2025-06-17T03:12:17.466287-07:00

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Breaking Defense

Air Force Accelerates Battle Staff Decisions Sevenfold With Inaugural DASH AI Experiment In its first DASH experimentation, the US Air Force and Shadow Operations Center – Nellis coders spent two weeks developing ‘agentic AI’ decision-support tools, which staff officers then evaluated in simulated high-intensity conflict scenarios. The AI Transformational Model accelerated staff decision cycles by a factor of seven.

2025-06-20T05:35:20.300486-07:00

Air Force Accelerates Battle Staff Decisions Sevenfold With Inaugural DASH AI Experiment

Stars and Stripes

U.S. Army to close Fort Eustis Transportation Museum and merge exhibits into new Fort Lee Logistics Museum The U.S. Army will shutter its Transportation Museum at Fort Eustis, Va., within three years, merging more than 7,000 artifacts and 135 military vehicles with exhibits from its Quartermaster and Ordnance museums at Fort Lee into a single Logistics Museum. The consolidation, part of an Army transformation initiative, will continue through FY2029.

2025-06-19T14:55:21.221937-07:00

U.S. Army to close Fort Eustis Transportation Museum and merge exhibits into new Fort Lee Logistics Museum

Space.com

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NASA, DoD Rehearse Artemis 2 Abort Recovery Procedures NASA and the Department of Defense conducted a full-scale dress rehearsal for abort recovery operations in preparation for Artemis 2, the agency’s first crewed lunar flyby in over five decades. The exercise validated procedures for Orion capsule and crew retrieval in the event of an in-flight abort.

2025-06-19T09:03:01.317578-07:00

NASA, DoD Rehearse Artemis 2 Abort Recovery Procedures

Reuters

USAF’s B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber, Bunker-Busters and Strategic Strike Alternatives The U.S. Air Force’s B-2 Spirit stealth bomber remains its premier platform for penetrating advanced air defenses to deliver precision bunker-buster strikes against deeply buried targets such as Iran’s nuclear research facilities. This factbox outlines the B-2’s current munition options—including new bunker-busters—and other strategic strike alternatives under consideration.

2025-06-18T13:35:46.019779-07:00

USAF’s B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber, Bunker-Busters and Strategic Strike Alternatives

Via Satellite

DoD CIO Official: Satcom Needs its ‘3GPP Moment’

2025-06-18T13:29:40.240619-07:00

DoD CIO Official: Satcom Needs

AINonline

U.S. Forms Unmanned Aerial Systems Special Operations Unit The U.S. has established its first dedicated Special Operations unit focused on unmanned aerial systems, integrating advanced UAS platforms to bolster SOCOM missions. The new unit will centralize command of reconnaissance and strike-capable drones, enhancing rapid-response support and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance for special operations forces.

2025-06-17T17:28:43.785159-07:00

U.S. Forms Unmanned Aerial Systems Special Operations Unit

Air & Space Forces Mag

B-52 Re-engining Program Delayed by Inlet Redesign The US Air Force’s effort to re-engine its B-52 Stratofortress fleet has hit a setback after inlet design issues forced the critical design review to slip into next year. The delay threatens planned swaps of aging TF33 engines for modern turbofans and may drive up costs.

2025-06-17T17:04:47.876599-07:00

B-52 Re-engining Program Delayed by Inlet Redesign

Breaking Defense

Commercial ISR Operators Urge Restoration of NRO Funding to Safeguard 'Golden Dome' Shield On June 16, leading commercial ISR satellite firms petitioned congressional appropriators to reverse proposed National Reconnaissance Office budget cuts, warning the reductions would undercut the Pentagon’s Golden Dome air and missile defense shield over the US homeland.

2025-06-17T14:32:10.691404-07:00

Commercial ISR Operators Urge Restoration of NRO Funding to Safeguard 'Golden Dome' Shield

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