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Betting on Autonomous Aircraft

This exclusive Cogs of War interview is with Brandon Tseng, the co-founder and president of Shield AI and a former Navy SEAL, whose company builds the Hivemind autonomy software, the V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon synthetic reality and simulation technologies. We asked Brandon about the bet at the center of his company — that the AI pilot matters more than the airframe — and about what a decade building autonomy for the Pentagon has taught him. Sign Up for Our Newsletter You founded Shield AI in 2015, before defense tech was fashionable, and when few in Washington believed a startup could

War on the RocksWar on the Rocks•Brandon Tseng24 Aug

Trump’s WLFI Faces Scrutiny Over Pentagon-Flagged AI Ties

World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the crypto venture backed by President Donald Trump’s family, is facing fresh scrutiny after nearly half the artificial intelligence (AI) models on its partner platform, Worldclaw, were found to come from Chinese companies the U.S. Department of Defense flagged as military-aligned. What Worldclaw Offers Worldclaw is a Hong Kong-based AI marketplace […]

Bitcoin.com NewsBitcoin.com News•Shiraz Jagati18 Aug

AI and the Risks of Tearing Down an Old System

Operation Epic Fury made clear that AI is now at the heart of American warfighting. Central Command used Claude through Palantir’s Maven Smart System platform to generate and prioritize roughly 1,000 targets in the first 24 hours of the campaign, at an operational tempo that more than doubled the opening phase of the 2003 Iraq invasion. Over 38 days, the campaign reached 13,000 total strikes, according to Pentagon data. Project Maven says that the program has accelerated targeting even further to 5,000 in a single day. The question is whether the department can evaluate what it deploys before it deploys

War on the RocksWar on the Rocks•Hamza Chaudhry18 Aug

Boeing to increase Standard Missile-3 hardware production under new Pentagon framework agreements

Boeing to increase Standard Missile-3 hardware production under new Pentagon framework agreements – New framework supports production of critical Standard Missile-3 parts to help intercept threats outside Earth’s atmosphere HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Aug. 14, 2026 — Boeing [NYSE: BA] has signed new seven-year framework agreements with the U.S. Department of War (DoW) and Raytheon, an RTX […] The post Boeing to increase Standard Missile-3 hardware production under new Pentagon framework agreements first appeared on PLANEtalking .

PLANEtalkingPLANEtalking•Flight Crew14 Aug

The True Cost of Cheap Chips

Given the relentless demand for computing power, electronic components are in scarce supply. Prices for certain memory chips, known as DRAM, have surged by more than 50 percent in a single quarter this year, and have roughly quadrupled since last fall. Because DRAM supply is tight, Apple, Dell, and HP are currently evaluating memory from ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), a company the Pentagon has designated as a Chinese military company. Apple, in particular, has sought assurances from the U.S. government that CXMT will not face future sanctions that would cut off its supply. Apple justifies its request by pledging to

War on the RocksWar on the Rocks•Faisal Akhter13 Aug