LAKE TRAVIS, Texas (Oct. 24, 2023) A prototype unmanned surface vehicle (USV) made by Saronic Technologies transits Lake Travis, Texas, during testing of an autonomous over-the-horizon solution conceived by student researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS). (U.S. Navy photo) | DefenseScoop
U.S. Marine Corps Capt. David Whalen, assigned to the Marine Innovation Unit (MIU), Marine Forces Reserve, works on developing a “Flight Mode” software feature at the Marine Corps Software Factory (MCSWF) in Austin, Texas, 17 – 29 March, 2025. (U.S.Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Orion Stpierre) | DefenseScoop
Aerial view of the Department of Defense. (Getty Images) | DefenseScoop
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Airman 1st Class Gerald Mack, cyber operator with 175th Cyber Operations, Maryland Air National Guard, monitors cyber attacks during Exercise Southern Strike at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, April 21, 2023. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Renee Seruntine) | DefenseScoop
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The U.S. Capitol Building is seen at dusk after the National Weather Service issued an Extreme Heat Warning for the region on June 23, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Carter/Getty Images) | DefenseScoop
Launched effects are expected to bring a critical capability to the Army with advanced teaming between crewed and uncrewed systems to detect, identify, locate, and report pacing threats in contested environments. (Photo by Shawn Nesaw) | DefenseScoop
Launched effects are expected to bring a critical capability to the Army with advanced teaming between crewed and uncrewed systems to detect, identify, locate, and report pacing threats in contested environments. (Photo by Shawn Nesaw) | DefenseScoop
Colonel Isagani Criste, commander of the Philippine army’s First Scout Ranger Regiment, presents a gift to Vice Adm. Frank Bradley, Joint Special Operations Command commanding officer, during a key leader engagement in the Philippines, July 9, 2023. (Courtesy photo from DVIDS) | DefenseScoop
(U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Barry Loo) | DefenseScoop
The U.S. Space Force’s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Mission Seven successfully landed at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, March 7, 2025. The X-37B landed at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, to exercise the service’s ability to recover the spaceplane across multiple sites. (U.S. Space Force courtesy photo) | DefenseScoop
The national flags of the United States of America and the United Kingdom. (Source: Getty Images) | DefenseScoop
The “Juniper” series of events are designed to test collective U.S.-Israeli readiness and improve the interoperability of defense systems. (Photo source: IDF Spokesperson’s Office and DVIDS) | DefenseScoop
A U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit takes off to support Operation MIDNIGHT HAMMER at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, June 2025. (Courtesy photo) | DefenseScoop
A common hypersonic glide body (C-HGB) launches from Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii, March 19, 2020, during a Department of Defense flight experiment. (U.S. Navy photo/Released) | DefenseScoop
Powered by 27 Merlin engines, generating more than five million pounds of combined thrust, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from Launch Complex (LC)-39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Dec. 28, 2023 at 8:07 p.m. EST, carrying the U.S. Space Force (USSF)-52 mission into Earth orbit. (SpaceX photo) | DefenseScoop
Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks speaks at the DMI kickoff on Jan 31. (Photo by Brandi Vincent) | DefenseScoop
A person holds a telephone displaying the logo of Elon Musk s artificial intelligence grok in front of a background lit by a blue light in Kerlouan in Brittany in France on February 18 2025. (Photo by Vincent Feuray / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP) | DefenseScoop
Adm. Daryl Caudle, commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command (USFFC), utilizes the 1MC announcement system from the bridge of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Mason (DDG 87) to address the crew during a ship visit, Aug. 13, 2024. (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Nathan T. Beard) | DefenseScoop
President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, appear during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on February 26, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) | DefenseScoop
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York Spacecraft undergoing vibration environmental testing at York Facility. (Photo credit: York Space Systems) | DefenseScoop
Rendering of the Resilient Missile Warning Tracking (MWT) architecture in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO). (Illustration courtesy of BAE Systems) | DefenseScoop
A medium range ballistic missile target is launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii, as part of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s Flight Test Aegis Weapon System 31 Event 1a (FTM-31 E1a), held on March 30, 2023 in cooperation with the U.S. Navy. (MDA photo) | DefenseScoop
Overhead view of NGA Campus East (NGA photo) | DefenseScoop
U.S. Central Command’s (USCENTCOM) incoming commander, U.S. Navy Adm. Brad Cooper, left, and outgoing USCENTCOM outgoing commander, U.S. Army Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla, right, seated during a change of command ceremony, 8 August 2025. Multiple Department of Defense officials attended the event as well as distinguished defense leaders from partner nations around the world. (U.S. Central Command Public Affairs photo by Tom Gagnier) | DefenseScoop
U.S. Central Command’s (USCENTCOM) incoming commander, U.S. Navy Adm. Brad Cooper, left, and outgoing USCENTCOM outgoing commander, U.S. Army Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla, right, seated during a change of command ceremony, 8 August 2025. Multiple Department of Defense officials attended the event as well as distinguished defense leaders from partner nations around the world. (U.S. Central Command Public Affairs photo by Tom Gagnier) | DefenseScoop
U.S. Central Command’s (USCENTCOM) incoming commander, U.S. Navy Adm. Brad Cooper, left, and outgoing USCENTCOM outgoing commander, U.S. Army Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla, right, seated during a change of command ceremony, 8 August 2025. Multiple Department of Defense officials attended the event as well as distinguished defense leaders from partner nations around the world. (U.S. Central Command Public Affairs photo by Tom Gagnier) | DefenseScoop
U.S. Air Force air battle managers participate in the Department of the Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System Cross-Functional Team first Decision Advantage Sprint for Human-Machine Teaming, or DASH, experiment, recently held at the Howard Hughes Operations, or H2O, Center in Las Vegas, Nev., April 8, 2025. This two-week event brought together operational warfighters and industry and Shadow Operations Center-Nellis software developers to prototype microservices aimed at accelerating...| DefenseScoop
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Space Force’s GPS III SV-08 mission payload before liftoff, May 30, 2025. (Screenshot from SpaceX livestream) | DefenseScoop
(U.S. Air Force photo illustration by Airman 1st Class Kevin Sommer Giron) | DefenseScoop
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth hosts a drone demonstration at the Pentagon, July 10, 2025. (U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Lance Cpl. Isaac Llanez Delgado) | DefenseScoop
U.S. Soldiers assigned to 3rd Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment guide a Stryker into concealment during Project Flytrap at Joint Multinational Readiness Center, Hohenfels Training Area, Hohenfels, Germany, June 20, 2025. The Soldiers mounted an EchoShield cognitive radar above the Stryker, which detected frequencies of nearby drones and provided ground-force Soldiers with real-time location data on their end-user devices. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Elijah Magaña) | DefenseScoop
Participants in the Army’s Cyber Flag exercise in Suffolk, Virginia, in June 2019. (U.S. Cyber Command photo) | DefenseScoop
Participants in the Army’s Cyber Flag exercise in Suffolk, Virginia, in June 2019. (U.S. Cyber Command photo) | DefenseScoop
U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to the Multi-Domain Effects Battalion, 2nd Multi-Domain Task Force, retrieve an Unmanned Surface Vessel (USVs) from the water during Arcane Thunder 25, 16 May, 2025. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Jennifer Posy) | DefenseScoop
Wallops Island, Virginia, Oct. 21, 2021. U.S. Navy Strategic Systems Programs and the Army Hypersonic Program Office successfully conducted a High Operational Tempo for Hypersonics flight campaign. This test informed the development of the Navy’s Conventional Prompt Strike and the Army’s Long Range Hypersonic Weapon offensive hypersonic strike capability. (U.S. Navy Photo/Released) | DefenseScoop
Screenshot of video of UAP AARO is currently investigating. (DVIDS) | DefenseScoop
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Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaks at the AI+Expo in Washington, DC, June 4, 2025. (Photo by Jon Harper) | DefenseScoop
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A Sea Cadet from Advanced Training Command New England applies a tourniquet to a mannequin as part of Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) Course June 30, 2025. TCCC is developed by the U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Health Agency (DHA) Joint Trauma System (JTS) to teach evidence-based, life-saving techniques and strategies for providing the best trauma care on the battlefield. (U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Sydney Wall) | DefenseScoop
A report from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is seen as US President Donald Trump holds a meeting with his Cabinet, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC, of April 30, 2025. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP via Getty Images) | DefenseScoop
A Sea Cadet from Advanced Training Command New England applies a tourniquet to a mannequin as part of Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) Course June 30, 2025. TCCC is developed by the U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Health Agency (DHA) Joint Trauma System (JTS) to teach evidence-based, life-saving techniques and strategies for providing the best trauma care on the battlefield. (U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Sydney Wall) | DefenseScoop
A Sea Cadet from Advanced Training Command New England applies a tourniquet to a mannequin as part of Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) Course June 30, 2025. TCCC is developed by the U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Health Agency (DHA) Joint Trauma System (JTS) to teach evidence-based, life-saving techniques and strategies for providing the best trauma care on the battlefield. (U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Sydney Wall) | DefenseScoop
(Graphics by Art Armendariz. Source: DVIDS) | DefenseScoop
U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to the Multi-Domain Effects Battalion, 2nd Multi-Domain Task Force, retrieve an Unmanned Surface Vessel (USVs) from the water during Arcane Thunder 25, 16 May, 2025. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Jennifer Posy) | DefenseScoop
Screenshot from video of the “Puerto Rico Object” shown during a Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities hearing, Nov. 19, 2024. | DefenseScoop
Screenshot from video of the “Puerto Rico Object” shown during a Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities hearing, Nov. 19, 2024. | DefenseScoop