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.

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 U.S. Air Force’s Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) laboratory, the Shadow Operations Center-Nellis (ShOC-N), conducted a key event in December to consider new command and control (C2) ...

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 ...

MIT Lincoln Laboratory and the Space Cyber-Resiliency group at Air Force Research Laboratory-Space Vehicles Directorate have prototyped a practical, operationally capable and secure-by-design ...

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 ...

An Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) program aimed at protecting artificial intelligence (AI) systems from Trojan attacks is affecting related science before the program is even ...

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 ...

The rise of the drug cartel movement since the 1970s has ignited fear among many. From complex and undetected tunnel systems to leveraging ubiquitous technical surveillance (UTS), many of the recently ...