On December 18, President Donald Trump signed into law the fiscal year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (FY26 NDAA), supporting $900.6 billion in funding. While outlining key focus areas such ...

See which topics SIGNAL readers were most interested in this past year, from generative AI to cyber defense.

The U.S. Air Force’s 67th Cyberspace Wing has been busy. The wing operationally acts as the execution arm of Air Forces Cyber, performing comprehensive cyber operations on a service and nation level.

The Department of the Air Force (DAF) is on the hook for meeting the challenge of air- and space-related joint all-domain command and control. Having spent the last couple of years validating the ...

Soldiers may soon be wearing equipment that physically strengthens and protects them, as well as potentially improves their cognitive abilities on the battlefield. Artillery soldiers carry heavy ...

U.S. Army leaders are forging ahead with the next steps regarding the new Army Enterprise Large Language Model (LLM) Workspace. This month, officials will strive to solidify the base of the platform ...

Drug traffickers expand the use of submersible vessels to transport illicit substances as states struggle to detect them. This whack-a-mole game sees cartels improve the seaworthiness and technologies ...

What began as a “wacky” idea soon became an opportunity unlike any other for businesses and academia alike for education, progression and collaboration. Increasing in volume since its inception, U.S.

Sandia National Laboratories, the multidisciplinary national security engineering labs in New Mexico, is relying on artificial intelligence (AI) more and more, reports Laura McGill, the new director ...

The explosion of publicly available and commercially available information that is geotagged, time-boxed and capable of being rapidly aggregated has brought attributes to open-source intelligence ...

As artificial intelligence (AI)-based systems become more prevalent and sophisticated than ever before, defense officials are exploring new ways to ensure that these models are protected against ...

Communications using a light beam isn’t a new idea, even outside of “Star Trek,” “Star Wars” and other similar tales of fantasy. Scientist and science fiction writer Arthur Clarke forecasted ...