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Defending the Edge: Proven Air Defense for the Modern Fight
From Ukraine to Iran, recent conflicts have underscored how profoundly low-cost, proliferated and adaptable aerial threats are reshaping the modern battlefield. Small drones and one-way attack systems are compressing decision timelines, stressing traditional defenses and exposing the limitations of point solutions. Protecting against them requires layered defense, earlier detection, faster decisions, resilient integration and the…
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Land, sea and air, the triple cover with which EM&E Group wants to shield the eastern flank
Security in Eastern Europe is no longer measured only in kilometres of land border. Landlocked countries on the eastern flank face a broader challenge: to simultaneously monitor their land borders, waters and airspace in the face of the growing threat of unmanned systems. This combined need explains the growing interest of these countries in integrating…
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Why “set it and forget it” does not work for Life Insurance
USAA Life Insurance Company and USAA Life Insurance Company of New York Many service members are automatically enrolled in Servicemembers’ Group Life Insurance (SGLI) and then rarely think about it again. Early in a career, that may be understandable. A young single service member with no dependents, no mortgage, and limited financial obligations may be…
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As Costs Rise, End-of-Life Planning is Mission-Critical for Military Families
For service members, veterans, and their families, financial readiness has always been part of the mission. But as costs rise across housing, healthcare, and everyday essentials, another critical area is gaining urgency: planning for end-of-life expenses. Unlike deployments or Permanent Change of Station (PCS) moves, end-of-life costs are often unplanned—and unavoidable. Funeral services, final medical…
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A Coast Guardsman’s Fight to Hold His Son Again
As a machinery technician in the Coast Guard, William Hamilton III spent nine years making sure the boat got to those who needed saving. But when it came time for his own emergency, he had a hard time believing it. “I knew what was up,” he says, “but I was being hardheaded.” He’d spent the…
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Bringing physical AI to the battlefield: Q&A with Dr. Philip Perconti, Leonardo DRS CTO
At the U.S. Army, where he retired as the service’s chief scientist and the head of research and technology, Dr. Philip Perconti helped leaders get focused on the most critical and emerging development priorities, including using artificial intelligence for mobility and maneuver and advanced sensing capabilities. Now in his fifth year as senior vice president…
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Executing the National Defense Strategy: How the Army, Team Lynx and XM30 Get It Right
Team Lynx’s XM30 delivers what the National Defense Strategy demands: non-traditional innovation, proven industrial capability and domestic production at scale. The National Defense Strategy (NDS) calls for America to “Supercharge the U.S. Defense Industrial Base” by reinvesting in production capacity, empowering innovators, adopting technologies like artificial intelligence and removing obstacles to deliver capabilities at the…
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Modernizing Military Facilities—At Scale
Since 2023, more than 430 requests to repair, replace, or upgrade systems have been submitted by over 50 installations through IGSAs with Sourcewell, a local unit of government in the state of Minnesota. These requests cover a range of facility needs, but most often focus on core systems that support daily living conditions and extend…
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Three Changes That Would Unleash Digital Engineering Across Defense Acquisition
The shift from platform acquisition to mission-thread thinking is where digital engineering unlocks exponential value as a strategic enabler. When modeling a mission thread from sensor to shooter, data flows through multiple systems across multiple services in a manner that exposes potential blind spots and interface gaps at critical handoff points. A legacy platform acquisition…
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Detect, track, identify, defeat: Leonardo’s integrated counter-drone ecosystem
The battlefield is being reshaped by the rapid proliferation of Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS). Today, a low-cost drone can threaten—or even destroy—military assets worth millions, fundamentally changing the economics of modern warfare. Yet the challenge extends far beyond the drone itself, as every new countermeasure is quickly met with a counter-countermeasure, creating an unrelenting cycle…
