Saab Successfully Flies In-House AI Agents on Gripen E Fighter Aircraft

Saab is revealing its own in-house, flight-proven Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents and has flown them on the Gripen E. By doing so, Saab has demonstrated its ability to develop, train, and fly its own AI for air combat, taking it all the way from concept to an operational fighter aircraft. AI is...

Shield AI Partners with RBAT to Advance Maritime Autonomous Defence Capabilities in Qatar

Shield AI, a leader in AI-powered mission autonomy, and Barzan Holdings Joint Venture RBAT signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at Milipol Qatar 2026 to explore the integration of Shield AI’s Hivemind autonomy software into Qatari-designed maritime autonomous defense and security solutio...

Thales Secures $53.9Mn US Navy Contract for AI-Powered Mine-Hunting Technology

Thales’ subsidiary Advanced Acoustic Concepts (AAC), a U.S.-based provider of undersea warfare solutions, was awarded a $53.9 million U.S. Navy contract to produce and deliver two integrated Remote Mine Hunting (RMH) modules and accompanying engineering support. The award includes options for ...

US War Department Expands Generative AI Access to 1.7Mn Users

The US War Department is expanding access to generative artificial intelligence across the department, with around 1.7 million users currently using AI tools, officials said during GenAI.mil Excite Day at the Pentagon. Deya Banisakher, acting director for Frontier AI at the Chief Digital and Artifi...

Dassault Aviation Flight-Tests Sovereign AI Algorithms on Rafale Fighter Jet

Dassault Aviation has flight-tested two new sovereign AI algorithms on the Rafale fighter jet. The first was developed by the company’s engineers, while the second was developed in collaboration with Thales/cortAIx. The development of these new functions is part of a broader initiative to int...

Thales Launches AI-Enhanced HexaForce for Multi-Domain Military Command

Thales has launched HexaForce, an AI-enhanced multi-domain command and control (C2) system designed to help armed forces process large volumes of operational data and accelerate decision-making across land, air, sea, cyber, space, electromagnetic spectrum and information operations. The system inte...

Building Smarter Defence Systems through AI and Multi-Sensor Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is increasingly moving beyond software and digital applications to become an intelligence layer for the physical world, transforming how organisations monitor assets, anticipate risks and make real-time decisions. The convergence of AI, Digital Twins, simulation, sensor fusio...

Palladyne AI, NORDA Dynamics Integrate AI-Powered Swarm Autonomy for Unmanned Systems

Palladyne AI, a U.S.-based defense and industrial technology company delivering embodied AI-powered collaborative autonomy solutions, and NORDA Dynamics (NORDA), a Ukrainian-Estonian developer of a drone autonomy ecosystem proven in active combat, today announced a collaboration to integrate Pallady...

EdgeRunner AI and U.S. Army AI2C Develop Open-Weight LLM for Military Use

EdgeRunner AI, the leader in military-specific, on-device artificial intelligence, and AI2C, the U.S. Army’s Artificial Intelligence Integration Center, today announced EdgeRunner-Camo, a new open-weight Large Language Model (LLM) from EdgeRunner AI developed with AI2C specifically for the U.S...

India’s Su-30 Fleet Enters the Age of Predictive AI

The Indian Air Force (IAF) is turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to make one of its most important fighter fleets smarter, more reliable and easier to maintain. A new collaboration between the IAF and IIT Bombay aims to develop an indigenous predictive-maintenance system for the Su-30 MKI.&nbsp...

Skunk Works Advances Sensor-Powered AI Fighter Intercept

In a landmark step toward the future of airborne autonomy, Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School (TPS) and industry partners demonstrated sensor-driven autonomy on a fighter aircraft. An artificial intelligence (AI) agent used targeting information from an ...

India’s Defence Industry Urged to Use AI and Digital Technologies for Predictive Safety

Defence Production Secretary Sanjiv Kumar has called upon India’s defence and explosives industries to adopt advanced digital technologies that can continuously monitor manufacturing processes, analyse operational data and anticipate potential safety risks. He was speaking at the national sem...

Shield AI, Thunder Tiger Validate AI-Powered Autonomous Teaming at Sea

Shield AI and Thunder Tiger Corp. announced the successful completion of Hivemind’s first multi-asset autonomous teaming demonstration on water, validating Shield AI’s Hivemind AI pilot aboard Thunder Tiger SeaShark unmanned surface vessels (USVs) in a coordinated mission. During the de...

Honeywell Aerospace, Shield AI Join Forces on Trusted AI-Piloted Autonomy

Honeywell Aerospace and Shield AI, a leader in AI-powered mission autonomy, announced a Memorandum of Understanding under which Honeywell Aerospace will develop a trusted autonomy software stack on Shield AI’s Hivemind Software Development Kit, integrating Honeywell Aerospace’s Anthem av...

Agile Defense Secures $100 Million Deal to Bring AI Training and Engineering to the Battlefield

Agile Defense announced that it has been awarded a $100 million Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreement through the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace (TSM) to deliver its Workforce AI tool in support of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and U...

Circus Deploys AI-Powered Robotic Meal Supply System with Ukrainian Military

Circus SE announces the commencement of live operations of its robotic-based troop supply technology with the 3rd Army Corps of the Ukrainian Ground Forces in the Kyiv area – marking the first ever use of autonomous meal supply systems within an active conflict environment. Ahead of deploymen...

Infobip Research Reveals Businesses Scaling AI-Powered Defences to Counter Surge in Automated Fraud

New research from global AI-first cloud communications platform Infobip reveals a growing surge in AI-powered fraud and enterprise defences. Analysing billions of interactions globally, Infobip’s 2026 Fraud & Security Report highlights a year of dramatic contrasts. There have bee...

Palladyne AI Launches HANGTIME Project to Connect Autonomous Defence Systems

Palladyne AI Corp. (Palladyne AI), a developer of artificial intelligence software for robotic platforms in the defence and commercial sectors, announced that it has executed the previously announced contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to solve one of the most persistent cha...

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