WASHINGTON — A new requirement for handheld counter-drone capabilities aimed at taking down small unmanned aerial systems is coming soon, a Marine official told Breaking Defense today. Such counter-unmanned aerial systems are lightweight tools that can be attached to a Marine’s person, Lt. Col R.M. Barclay, Marine Air Command and Control System branch head, said…
Risk in cognitive operations is not additive. It is multiplicative. A missile strike has a defined blast radius, effects are immediate, observable, and bounded. Cognitive operations have none of these characteristics. Messages spread through networks in ways no one fully controls. Attribution may be ambiguous or deliberately obscured. Cognitive effects may unfold over weeks, months,…
WASHINGTON — Military personnel and Defense Department civilians have used a version of Google Gemini’s Agent Designer to create over 100,000 semi-autonomous AI agents in less than five weeks since the tool became available, a Pentagon official told Breaking Defense. “We’ve seen remarkable adoption since its launch, with over 103,000 agents built and a total…
Violence, drugs and controlThe gang is known for using violence to dominate territory and protect its criminal activity. Investigators believe it maintained control over parts of the United Kingdom through intimidation, retaliation and organised violence tied to drug trafficking.While violence played out on the ground, senior figures operated from Spain and the United Arab Emirates,…
Shorouk Express BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 21. The United States imposed a new round of sanctions targeting shipping networks and an airline it says are helping fund Iran’s “malign activities” through illicit oil sales and support for Iran-backed militant groups, the State Department said, Trend reports. The Departments of State and Treasury announced coordinated designations aimed…
Shorouk Express The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US The U.S. Secret Service says it has dismantled a stockpile of devices in the New York area…
Shorouk Express On the afternoon of Monday 30 June 2025, a Boeing 737-446 of the Greek airline Air Mediterranean registered as SX-MAT landed at Damascus International Airport. It was the first passenger flight from Athens to the Syrian capital since the fall of Bashar al-Assad. The flight of this relatively unknown airline and its enthusiastic…
According to recent data from the International Energy Agency, industrial sectors, such as chemical manufacturing and mining, currently contribute 25% of all global CO2 emissions and 37% of all global energy consumption. Industries face increasing pressure to develop net-zero roadmaps. As sustainability rises on the corporate agenda, digitalization contributes to a clear, strategic path to…
AI is driving a large enhance in information middle workloads, with IDC predicting that information era will develop at a compound annual development price (CAGR) of 40.5% by way of 2027. Gartner expects that using generative AI fashions will affect over 90% of organizations to pursue hybrid cloud environments by way of 2027. This may…
