A Brave1 cluster developer fielded a technology that automates 95% of the Shahed interception cycle, from drone launch to target destruction, following combat testing in the Kharkiv region.

The operator selects a target and commands engagement; the system then autonomously guides the interceptor, identifies the Shahed, and locks on, retaining a human-cancel option.

Interceptor drones have downed roughly 1,500 Russian drones at a fraction of missile cost, and their share of kills has doubled in four months.

Two US Army soldiers were rescued within two hours after their AH-64 Apache went down near Oman's coast Monday, US Central Command said, both in stable condition.

The helicopter was patrolling regional waters when it went down, with Navy Task Force 59, the 82nd Airborne Division, and Air Force assets leading the recovery.

ABC News reported an unmanned surface vessel pulled the crew out, a detail Central Command has not confirmed, as the cause stays under investigation.

The Army standardized its Mortars App across all units in March, putting fire control for calculating and launching rounds onto an Android phone or tablet.

Built at Picatinny Arsenal's armaments center, the modular app replaces the 2003 Mortar Fire Control Software and the 2004 handheld ballistic computer with a single device-agnostic system.

The 82nd Airborne Division adopted the app with minimal training, signaling a shift toward commercial hardware for frontline fire control.

Trump signed a national security memorandum directing the FBI, intelligence, and cyber agencies to build proactive partnerships with AI firms and field frontier models faster.

The directive orders agencies to protect frontier models and their data centers from foreign adversaries, citing concerns about alleged industrial-scale model-distillation attacks originating in China.

It gives agencies 120 days to revamp procurement for multiple vendors and bars vendors from disabling systems warfighters depend on without prior approval.

The Defense Information Systems Agency will begin migrating combatant commands to a single secure network, CommandNet, in fiscal 2028, replacing today's siloed architectures.

Built under the Mission Network-as-a-Service program, CommandNet consolidates the 11 commands' separate networks into a single enterprise system using zero-trust Thunderdome and federated identity management.

Consolidation would let DISA run commodity information technology for all commands, freeing them to focus on warfighting rather than managing networks.

The Pentagon added Alibaba, Baidu, BYD, and dozens of other firms to its updated Section 1260H list of companies it considers tied to China's military.

The designations carry no sanctions but bar the Defense Department from contracting directly with listed firms this month and through third parties from June 2027.

The move lands weeks after a Trump-Xi summit eased tensions, with Alibaba and Baidu rejecting the listing and vowing legal challenges.

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