<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title><![CDATA[Defense - Newslocker]]></title><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/</link><atom:link rel="self" href="https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/rss/" /><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><description><![CDATA[Find your latest Defense news with just one click. Don't miss out on anything happening in your profession!]]></description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright (C) 2026 newslocker.com</copyright><lastBuildDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:13:00 +0200</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Trump strips civil-service protections from thousands of feds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some 8,000 career federal workers will be&nbsp;stripped of civil-service protections&nbsp;under a Wednesday executive order&nbsp;to convert their jobs into at-will employment.President Trump's edict marks the culmination of a years-long push to make it easier to fire federal employees in &ldquo;policy-related&rdquo; jobs by removing them from the federal government&rsquo;s competitive service and placing them in a new job category, initially called Schedule F and now referred to as Schedule Poli]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/trump-strips-civil-service-protections-from-thousands-of-feds/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/trump-strips-civil-service-protections-from-thousands-of-feds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump's choice of acting intel chief threatens fragile surveillance-powers deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump&rsquo;s decision to name William Pulte as acting director of national intelligence is threatening a fragile Senate deal to extend a contentious surveillance authority.On Tuesday, Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., asked Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D.,&nbsp;to press the White House to reverse the appointment of Pulte, who has no&nbsp;national-security background but does have a record of&nbsp;targeting&nbsp;Trump&rsquo;s political adv]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/trumps-choice-of-acting-intel-chief-threatens-fragile-surveillance-powers-deal/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/trumps-choice-of-acting-intel-chief-threatens-fragile-surveillance-powers-deal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New bill aims to regulate military uses of AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new bill would restrict the Pentagon&rsquo;s use of AI in operations and heavily regulate its use on fully-autonomous weapons, for domestic surveillance, and with nuclear weapons.&nbsp;Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., announced &ldquo;The Secure and Accountable Military AI Act&rdquo; on Tuesday. Other lawmakers have not joined the legislation, and her office confirmed she plans to offer elements of the bill as amendments to the Senate&rsquo;s version of the National Defense Authorization Act.&]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/new-bill-aims-to-regulate-military-uses-of-ai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/new-bill-aims-to-regulate-military-uses-of-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump signs business-friendlier version of AI executive order]]></title><description><![CDATA[Federal&nbsp;agencies must expand oversight of advanced AI systems under a cybersecurity-focused artificial intelligence executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Tuesday,&nbsp;the administration&rsquo;s latest attempt to foster innovation while addressing fears of&nbsp;AI-enabled cyber attacks.The directive&nbsp;orders less federal oversight of AI models than an proposed version&nbsp;that was&nbsp;scuttled&nbsp;two weeks ago after industry complaints of overregulation.The order encour]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/trump-signs-business-friendlier-version-of-ai-executive-order/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/trump-signs-business-friendlier-version-of-ai-executive-order/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump appoints housing official to be acting director of national intelligence]]></title><description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he is appointing Federal Housing Finance Agency director William Pulte to serve as acting director of national intelligence, replacing outgoing director Tulsi Gabbard.The choice is unusual for the nation&rsquo;s top spy official, who would oversee the CIA, NSA, and 16 more&nbsp;intelligence agencies. Also unusual: Pulte will keep his job at&nbsp;FHFA and&nbsp;his chairmanship of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Trump said in a Truth Social post.&nbsp;Pulte, wh]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/trump-appoints-housing-official-to-be-acting-director-of-national-intelligence/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/trump-appoints-housing-official-to-be-acting-director-of-national-intelligence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desert e-bike race ‘the perfect’ place to test military-vehicle AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pilot Racing, a&nbsp;team in the upcoming Baja 1000 dirt-bike race will bring a special advantage: AI that prescribes when a rider should pit, long before the need becomes obvious.The thousand-mile trek through California and Mexico is &ldquo;the perfect&rdquo; environment to test GDIT&rsquo;s logistics-and-maintenance AI before it heads off to rough and disconnected battlefields, a company representative said.&nbsp;GDIT is teaming with AWS on Project Celerity, an AI-enabled platform for managin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/desert-e-bike-race-the-perfect-place-to-test-military-vehicle-ai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/desert-e-bike-race-the-perfect-place-to-test-military-vehicle-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanks largely to robots, Ukraine is now talking about winning, not just surviving]]></title><description><![CDATA[PRAGUE, Czech Republic&ndash;A small but growing number of European officials and analysts are saying what four years ago was unthinkable: Ukraine isn&rsquo;t just surviving its grueling war with Russia, it is in some ways thriving and may even be on a path to victory.This isn&rsquo;t yet captured in headlines&mdash;for example, about last weekend&rsquo;s barrage of Russian drones and missiles around Ukraine&mdash;but in the details, like how some 90 percent were intercepted.Several long-term tr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/thanks-largely-to-robots-ukraine-is-now-talking-about-winning-not-just-surviving/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/thanks-largely-to-robots-ukraine-is-now-talking-about-winning-not-just-surviving/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ready, fire, aim: Pentagon cut workforce with little analysis before or since]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pentagon leaders cut their department&rsquo;s workforce by more than 10 percent with little regard for the effects&mdash;and still has no plans to assess them, according to a congressional watchdog report released on Friday.&nbsp;The department shed 78,000 civilian employees in 2025 through a mix of voluntary resignations, involuntary layoffs, and a hiring freeze that resulted in nearly 60,000 fewer new hires than in recent years.&ldquo;But we found that DOD didn&rsquo;t consistently analyze the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/ready-fire-aim-pentagon-cut-workforce-with-little-analysis-before-or-since/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/ready-fire-aim-pentagon-cut-workforce-with-little-analysis-before-or-since/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Navy wants next-generation munitions, so it’s spending millions on innovation hubs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Updated: June 2.Replenishing munitions stockpiles doesn&rsquo;t end with simply producing more of them. There are persistent challenges with mixing, manufacturing, integrating and discovering new energetic materials&mdash;the chemical compounds that make up explosives, propellants, and munitions. On Thursday, the Navy broke ground on a new facility to help.&nbsp;The Maryland Energetics Innovation Hub is meant to furnish lab space where companies can test new tech, such as high-performance comput]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/the-navy-wants-next-generation-munitions-so-its-spending-millions-on-innovation-hubs/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/the-navy-wants-next-generation-munitions-so-its-spending-millions-on-innovation-hubs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Q&amp;A with SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Frank Donovan]]></title><description><![CDATA[Until recently, Gen. Frank Donovan ran the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group, the white-hot center of the Pentagon&rsquo;s drive for affordable mass and battlefield robots. Now he&rsquo;s in charge of U.S. Southern Command, which is working hard to put the DAWG&rsquo;s products to use. Defense One sat down with Donovan during SOF Week in Tampa. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.Q: You&rsquo;re an expert in autonomous warfare, as a former leader of the DAWG&mdash;for which a ne]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/qampa-with-southcom-commander-gen-frank-donovan/</link><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 03:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/qampa-with-southcom-commander-gen-frank-donovan/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cyber Force? Senator pushes to create service branch under the Army]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new cyber-focused military service branch would sit under the Army if one senator&rsquo;s proposal comes to fruition.&nbsp;Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., is spearheading a markup amendment to the Senate&rsquo;s 2027 National Defense Authorization Act that would create a &ldquo;Cyber Force&rdquo; as the next armed service branch. The senator&rsquo;s office confirmed that the amendment proposes to establish the branch under the Army, just as the Space Force and Marine Corps sit under the Air F]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/cyber-force-senator-pushes-to-create-service-branch-under-the-army/</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 22:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/cyber-force-senator-pushes-to-create-service-branch-under-the-army/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Software patches from Army hackathon going straight to troops in CENTCOM]]></title><description><![CDATA[Engineers from top defense contractors have spent days behind their laptops at Fort Carson, Colo., coding up ways to enable weapons, sensors, and command-and-control systems developed independently to share information.Dubbed Project Jailbreak, the effort is part of the Army&rsquo;s first hackathon to integrate its many proprietary software programs. Some of the fixes have already been pushed to deployed troops, according to the Army&rsquo;s chief technology officer.&ldquo;A couple of the softwa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/software-patches-from-army-hackathon-going-straight-to-troops-in-centcom/</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 20:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/software-patches-from-army-hackathon-going-straight-to-troops-in-centcom/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Data brokers are helping enemies target US troops. The Pentagon must step up, lawmakers say]]></title><description><![CDATA[Adversaries have used commercially available location data to target U.S. servicemembers&nbsp;in war zones, a bipartisan group of lawmakers revealed Thursday.&nbsp;In a letter to Pentagon CIO Kirsten Davies, 14 members of Congress &mdash; led by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Rep. Pat Harrigan, R-N.C. &mdash; warned that the department &ldquo;has not taken basic steps to protect U.S. military personnel from the serious counterintelligence and force protection threat posed by the collection and sale]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/data-brokers-are-helping-enemies-target-us-troops-the-pentagon-must-step-up-lawmakers-say/</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 19:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/data-brokers-are-helping-enemies-target-us-troops-the-pentagon-must-step-up-lawmakers-say/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Army’s data-merging cell needs a few years to untangle the mess]]></title><description><![CDATA[ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Maryland&mdash;Much has been made of the new systems the Army is bringing online as part of its Continuous Transformation efforts, but getting old systems into shape is also part of the effort. In a small office space at Combat Capabilities Development Command, a group of 25 soldiers and civilian engineers, on loan from local units, is fielding requests from across the service to make its many data systems talk to each other.The pilot Army Data Operations Center, launche]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/armys-data-merging-cell-needs-a-few-years-to-untangle-the-mess/</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 21:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/armys-data-merging-cell-needs-a-few-years-to-untangle-the-mess/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iran war needs an inspector general, senator notes]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Democratic senator on Thursday requested that an inspector general oversight body designate one of the agency watchdogs to spearhead reviews of the ongoing war in Iran, citing a requirement in federal statute.&nbsp;In her letter, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., pointed to a provision in the U.S. Code mandating that the chair of the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency tap an IG to head oversight of a military &ldquo;overseas contingency operation that exceeds 60 days.&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/iran-war-needs-an-inspector-general-senator-notes/</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 21:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/iran-war-needs-an-inspector-general-senator-notes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Navy used drones to sink a retired warship]]></title><description><![CDATA[A U.S. warship used aerial and maritime drones to help sink a decommissioned frigate last fall, Fourth Fleet officials have confirmed, adding that the experience is now shaping how the Navy will go into future battles.On or about Sept. 28, somewhere in the Fourth Fleet&rsquo;s slice of the Atlantic Ocean, the littoral combat ship Cooperstown launched four unmanned aerial vehicles and one unmanned surface vessel against the former USS Simpson, a Perry-class guided missile frigate that was until r]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/the-navy-used-drones-to-sink-a-retired-warship/</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 19:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/the-navy-used-drones-to-sink-a-retired-warship/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How the Pentagon plans to spend $50 billion on drone warfare]]></title><description><![CDATA[CAMP ATTERBURY, Indiana&mdash;A countdown began as a gaggle of defense officials, soldiers, drone makers, and reporters watched screens in a windowless operations center. Suddenly, a LUCAS drone appeared, moving at rocket speed and showing off a new low-level capability before it crashed through a cement structure on the test range. It was a vivid demonstration of just how quickly the FLM-136 drone is evolving&mdash;and of how swiftly Pentagon leaders want to spend the $50 billion they have requ]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/how-the-pentagon-plans-to-spend-50-billion-on-drone-warfare/</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 10:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/how-the-pentagon-plans-to-spend-50-billion-on-drone-warfare/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defense Business Brief: Defense cyber champs?; HASC mark; Navy IW]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cyber threats are an increasingly persistent national security concern supercharged by AI&mdash;and so is the industry built to help hospitals, financial institutions, and the Pentagon secure their networks. But unlike the defense industrial base overall, there&rsquo;s no clear prime. Could that change with venture capital?Joe Lin, co-founder and CEO of the VC-backed cyber firm Twenty, said private capital isn&rsquo;t pouring into cybersecurity at the same rate as other defense tech areas in par]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/defense-business-brief-defense-cyber-champs-hasc-mark-navy-iw/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 23:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/defense-business-brief-defense-cyber-champs-hasc-mark-navy-iw/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defense Business Brief: Cyber force, outlined; Shipbuilding game; USMC’s JLTV plea]]></title><description><![CDATA[The military could stand up a separate service branch to handle cyber operations by 2028&mdash; should Congress or the White House decide to do so this year, according to a new Center for Strategic and International Studies report released Wednesday.&nbsp;&ldquo;Regardless of institutional alignment, reaching initial operating capacity (IOC) would take between 12 and 18 months and proceed through several sequential phases: setting conditions; fielding the IOC; iterative growth over several years]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/defense-business-brief-cyber-force-outlined-shipbuilding-game-usmcs-jltv-plea/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 23:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/defense-business-brief-cyber-force-outlined-shipbuilding-game-usmcs-jltv-plea/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[House draft of defense policy bill leaves some of Trump admin’s top priorities unfunded]]></title><description><![CDATA[An initial draft of the annual defense policy bill shows the House is still banking on billions of yet-to-be-approved funds for the Trump administration&rsquo;s top military priorities.The HASC chairman&rsquo;s mark of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act released on Tuesday detailed $1.15 trillion in baseline defense spending. But the Pentagon has asked for $1.5 trillion. To fully fund administration efforts like Golden Dome, shipbuilding, and a crucial munitions build-up, Congress would]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/house-draft-of-defense-policy-bill-leaves-some-of-trump-admins-top-priorities-unfunded/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 22:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/profession/defense/house-draft-of-defense-policy-bill-leaves-some-of-trump-admins-top-priorities-unfunded/</guid></item></channel></rss>