Lockheed Martin unveiled the Next Generation Glide Body on June 24, a wedge-shaped hypersonic weapon designed for lower cost and high-volume production across air, land, and sea launch platforms.

NXGB cleared its preliminary design review and offers a greater range and velocity than the conical Common Hypersonic Glide Body, with a flight demonstration targeted for 2027.

The reveal follows the Army's April pivot away from the costly Long Range Hypersonic Weapon, signaling a Pentagon push for affordable, mass-produced long-range strike capabilities.

Spectra Defense Technologies launched XSR Spire on June 24, a sealed, fanless mission computer that brings Intel Xeon-W processing to drones, ground vehicles, and other size-constrained platforms.

The IP67-rated unit runs AI inference at the edge with up to 96GB memory and 16TB storage, drawing 35 to 70 watts across temperatures from minus 40 to 160 degrees Fahrenheit.

Its open, modular design lets integrators add capabilities without redesigning platforms, reflecting a wider shift toward processing mission data onboard rather than on remote servers.

A 101st Airborne brigade cleared a fortified breach at Fort Polk using 35 one-way attack drones and two C4-laden unmanned ground vehicles, leaving it uncontested for riflemen.

More than half of the brigade's 228 attack drones were 3D-printed in-house for as little as $750 each, but the division cannot scale production without industry's support.

Commanders used AI in planning while keeping it out of commanders’ intent and course-of-action work, a model the Army is testing as it fields mass robotics.

A LeoLabs report found that China abandoned 51 spent rocket bodies at altitudes above 650 kilometers from 2021 to 2025, accounting for 86 percent of the world's discarded boosters.

The abandoned mass from China more than tripled to 305,000 kilograms, roughly 40 times the rest of the world combined, and three Chinese boosters have already exploded.

The debris threatens crowded orbits, including the planned 1,000-kilometer altitude of the Pentagon's Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, posing decades-long collision risk to military satellites.

A Defense Department report released Wednesday found that the military's research, development, test, and evaluation infrastructure is deteriorating, weakening America's ability to maintain a technical edge.

Modernization projects keep slipping as services redirect scarce construction funds, while backlogged security clearances, aging labs, and slow hiring deter younger talent.

The report stops short of recommending closures, instead urging reforms to funding and governance, and cites China's civil-military fusion as the pacing challenge.

The Pentagon's new Post-Quantum Cryptography Strategy frames quantum computers as an existential threat and mandates that defense networks adopt quantum-resistant algorithms.

All systems must support post-quantum cryptography or be retired by December 31, 2030, with full implementation required across the department a year later.

The strategy follows two White House executive orders and warns adversaries could one day decrypt classified data or seize control of weapons systems.

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