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The United States is accelerating an effort to revolutionize modern warfare by fielding swarms of self-operating drones and weapons systems. The push will shape the next generation of war and, military leaders hope, give America a leg up on China in the new global arms race. With the Pentagon’s new Replicator initiative, the U.S. is…

Sue Halpern on Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks’s Replicator initiative—an effort to add cheap, artificially intelligent weapons to the U.S. arsenal.

A public disclosure website for the Pentagon's UFO investigations will go live Thursday after long delays and criticism from Congress.

DoD has announced its intent to field thousands of drones in a program called “Replicator”. The CEO of Teal Drones says the plan may break some things but fix others.

As China ramps up its armed forces and combat arsenal, the U.S. will look to “outmatch” it with more mass.

The program will seek to scale unmanned, attritable systems to offset China's bulk capacity, Hicks said.

The Department of Defense charged West Point cadets with determining how successful initiatives to make the academy reliant on renewable energy will be.

It's back to the 80s (without the 8-tracks or big hair). A stalled bubble of high pressure keeps us sunny much of this week with a few lonely, late-day T-showers Tuesday into Friday. No statewide soakings, just an early taste of July. It's hard getting the weather perfect. This is it. Check the blog for more details. -Todd Nelson

The Turkish government Tuesday reaffirmed its intention to complete the controversial purchase of a Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile defense system, a move appropriately drawing the ire of both parties in Washington. Both Congress and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have warned of punitive action should Turkey follow through on the purchase, which Turkey says could be completed as soon as next month.

Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks visited Alaska this week to see how climate change is undermining infrastructure at Arctic military bases