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• Six military freezers went bad in August. Was it a cyber attack?

  29-10-2026 22:00 via Defense One - All Content
  
  The Pentagon is investigating a suspected cyberattack behind freezer malfunctions that spoiled food at military bases across the United States in August, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter.The outages affected some six commissaries — the on-base grocery stores serving military personnel — per the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the situation. At Fort Huachuca in Arizona, officials reported that a freezer had entered defrost mode and heated its
  
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• Army pilots are trying virtual reality to stay more alert in flight

  29-10-2026 19:23 via Defense One - All Content
  
  The 101st Combat Aviation Brigade is testing a virtual-reality headset to see if it can make helicopter pilots more alert.For the next eight months, the unit will incorporate the Oculus-based NeuroTrainer into their flight-training regimen, to measure whether pilots’ reaction times improve.“In the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, our pilots operate in unpredictable environments where split-second decisions dictate mission success,” Col. Anthony Marston, the unit’s commander, told Defense O
  
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• Can inertial navigation make ground-robot swarms real?

  29-10-2026 18:30 via Defense One - All Content
  
  Two startups, working together for just under a week, may have found a way around the biggest obstacle to deploying swarms of ground robots: the need for GPS-free navigation in a small package. Swarmbotics AI, which makes 100-pound autonomous robots, is teaming up with TERN, whose navigation software doesn’t need GPS, the companies announced Wednesday.The Army has been seeking alternatives to the spoofable, jammable satellite-based system for years.“The current environment has taught us tha
  
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• Defense Business Brief: Tech at the edge; PACFLEET talks cyber; and more

  29-10-2026 11:53 via Defense One - All Content
  
  HONOLULU—Soldiers in the Pacific need technology that works when networks are attacked and connectivity isn’t guaranteed, said Gen. Xavier Brunson, the commander of U.S. Forces Korea. “If the service tells you who they are and what they're going to do, and you choose not to try to meet the requirements of how they're going to fight—that's going to be a problem. Because in the future, our networks will be fully under attack. I think in the future we'll have to operate disaggregated and d
  
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