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This summer at RIMPAC 26, Lockheed Martin collaborated with the U.S. Navy to successfully demonstrate a rapidly retrainable AI/ML sonar expert for antisubmarine warfare (ASW). The system, known as SensorMAX™, monitors spectral energy including subsurface acoustic data to assist the crew with rapid threat detection. Augmented by over-the-air (OTA) model update capability, SensorMAX aims to dramatically improve the U.S. Navy’s subsurface detection capabilities. Lockheed Martin press release SensorMAX uses AI/ML technology to understand ocean sounds. Taking in subsurface acoustic data from a network of sensors, SensorMAX provides a continuous data stream to the aircrew and sends information to the ground station.…

A machine gun can look deceptively simple: a barrel, an ammunition belt, a receiver, and a mechanism that keeps cycling. But once you start comparing the most powerful machine guns ever fielded, the numbers get serious.Some fire bullets large enough to threaten lightly armored vehicles, while others combine long-range reach with sustained automatic fire that can dominate a wide area.And here’s the interesting part: “most powerful” doesn’t simply mean “largest caliber.”A 14.5mm machine gun has an obvious advantage in projectile size over a 12.7mm weapon, but raw caliber is only one piece of the puzzle. Effective range, ammunition performance, rate…

What BJJ Really Is Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) is commonly described as a martial art defined by leverage, technique, and positional control. While these descriptions accurately capture its mechanics, they remain incomplete. They explain how BJJ operates, but not what it fundamentally represents. At a deeper level, BJJ can be understood as a system of creative problem-solving in motion, where two practitioners continuously generate, interpret, and resolve constraints in real time. Each movement presents a question, and each reaction attempts to answer it. Within this dynamic exchange, success depends not on physical dominance alone, but on the ability to navigate an…

“The Middle East has oil, China has rare-earth elements,” Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping declared in the early 1990s. This quote has been repeated a lot lately as Beijing has used its near monopoly on the rare-earth industry to effectively push back against U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest trade war. It is often cited as evidence that implicit in Deng’s statement was a coercive threat: just as Arab oil states weaponized their petroleum exports in 1973—cutting off the West to punish it for backing Israel in the Yom Kippur War—China would one day do the same with rare earths.The events of…

At Contender Series last night, Dana White dropped this little nugget:”This thing started July 17, 2017. From that date to today, the fighters who have made it into the UFC from Contender Series have made a $225.3 million. Talk about an opportunity.”Yes, let’s talk about that opportunity. First off, that’s 9 years. So, doing some quick math and rounding, that $25 million per year. Now, the show has officially awarded 333 contracts, though White later noted that 420 fighters have competed in the UFC from Contender series. So, take that $225M and split it up by 420, and we’re talking…

If you are looking for one exact arm measurement that matches your height, science does not provide one. There is no validated formula saying that a person of a particular height should have a specific flexed arm circumference. A tape measurement can be useful for tracking your own training progress, but it cannot tell you whether your arms are objectively the correct size for your frame. That answer may sound less satisfying than a target number in inches, but it is more useful. Arm size is shaped by muscle mass, body fat, bone structure, arm length, sex, age, genetics, training…

While there are differing opinions about how the Pentagon could improve the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program, most organizations agree the Defense Department’s inconsistent and unclear process for marking controlled unclassified information continues to be a critical problem driving CMMC costs and confusion. In comments filed to the CMMC Reform Task Force, multiple industry groups highlighted CUI identification and marking as one of the main cost drivers of the cyber evaluation program. The Pentagon has paused CMMC third-party assessment requirements to address cost and compliance concerns, especially for small businesses. CUI is sensitive government data that doesn’t meet strict criteria…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea launched about 10 short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea on Thursday, South Korea’s military said, a day after North Korea shrugged off a U.S. decision to scale back military drills with South Korea in an apparent bid to resume diplomacy. The Joint Chiefs of Staff said the launches happened from North Korea’s capital region around 5 p.m. (0800 GMT) on Thursday. The military said the missiles were launched toward North Korea’s eastern waters. The military said South Korea has bolstered its surveillance posture and was closely coordinating information on the launches with the…

Abstract Drawing on the author’s observations as an instructor at the Sergeants Major Academy, this article examines how generative artificial intelligence (AI) appears to be creating an academic divide between students who effectively leverage AI tools and those who do not. It highlights the resulting challenges to fairness, critical thinking, and assessment integrity and explores how faculty are adapting to these changes. The article argues for a deliberate, long-term strategy to integrate AI ethically and effectively into professional military education. Artificial Intelligence (AI) first emerged as a theoretical concept in the 1950s and has since evolved from a niche academic…

There is growing scientific and policy attention being paid to the risks of mirror life, but recognition of the problem has so far outpaced the development of concrete oversight. This paper sets out the authors’ view on how the governance of mirror biology research might begin to be operationalized. The authors’ organizing claim is that the most pressing deficit in the landscape is the gap between the widening recognition of mirror biology as a governance challenge and the absence of any concerted effort to apply operational mechanisms to it. They build from that gap to develop a preliminary framework that…