Artificial intelligence has evolved from a staple of science fiction to a real world, strategic priority of the United States. Increases in computing power and the emergence of large data sets to train ever more powerful machine learning algorithms have created real world applications and success stories. During this year-long series, Defense One and Nextgov will explore all aspects of artificial intelligence and its applications in government.

This year’s edition of Defense One's annual summit will feature a series of virtual 1-on-1 interviews, once again gathering defense and global security leaders with national security journalists. In each session, leaders will discuss news of the day and the year ahead, including what to expect in global security issues and the future of defense acquisitions and technology. These interviews will explore the current unknowns and questions...

This year’s edition of Defense One's annual summit will feature a series of virtual 1-on-1 interviews, once again gathering defense and global security leaders with national security journalists. In each session, leaders will discuss news of the day and the year ahead, including what to expect in global security issues and the future of defense acquisitions and technology. These interviews will explore the current unknowns and questions...

This year’s edition of Defense One's annual summit will feature a series of virtual 1-on-1 interviews, once again gathering defense and global security leaders with national security journalists. In each session, leaders will discuss news of the day and the year ahead, including what to expect in global security issues and the future of defense acquisitions and technology. These interviews will explore the current unknowns and questions...

This year’s edition of Defense One's annual summit will feature a series of virtual 1-on-1 interviews, once again gathering defense and global security leaders with national security journalists. In each session, leaders will discuss news of the day and the year ahead, including what to expect in global security issues and the future of defense acquisitions and technology. These interviews will explore the current unknowns and questions...

This year’s edition of Defense One's annual summit will feature a series of virtual 1-on-1 interviews, once again gathering defense and global security leaders with national security journalists. In each session, leaders will discuss news of the day and the year ahead, including what to expect in global security issues and the future of defense acquisitions and technology. These interviews will explore the current unknowns and questions...

The U.S. Navy finds itself under unexpected new leadership for the second year in a row after losing an acting secretary and an aircraft carrier commander to the coronavirus outbreak aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt this summer. The new hands must chart a course toward the president's mission of more ships, secure technologies, and shows of force.

The newly-established Space Force is pulling in space-based components from across the Army, Navy, and Air Force and integrating capabilities from those services. To military leaders, that means space is now considered to be a war-fighting domain, as China and Russia move swiftly to contest the U.S. presence above. Learn how Space Force is moving ahead with those plans, and new initiatives in Low Earth Orbit sensing, jamming, and next-generati...

Hypersonics are the new dimension of space flight, but research has yet to go deep on the effects of hypersonics on human passengers. Moreover, the United States Department of Defense is just one entity of many developing, testing, and deploying hypersonic weapons. This episode in Defense One’s “Tech Talks” series will explore the future of manned hypersonics as they provide a route to space exploration. We’ll discuss h...

Commandant Gen. David Berger has emerged as a forward-leaning leader who is remaking the Corps for modern missions and for modern society. His effort to scrap outdated weapons and formations is already an example to other service branches. His ban of the Confederate flag, months ahead of the summer's protests, is echoing across the Pentagon.