🖥️ Sandia supercomputer to run ‘hundreds of millions’ of nuclear simulations for modernization effort

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🖥️ Sandia supercomputer to run ‘hundreds of millions’ of nuclear simulations for modernization effort — Read More

🐕 Ghost Robotics highlights new robot-dog capabilities in ISR, perimeter security, and contested-environment support — Read More

🛰️ AMTI ASAP: Space Force readying multi-source acquisition for satellites to track aircraft — Read More

📡 MatrixSpace introduces high-precision counter-UAS radar for continuous 3D sensing — Read More

⚖️ To field weapons quicker, Pentagon should improve testing and evaluation process: GAO — Read More

🎱 Plus 17 other news stories you may like

📰 Full Breakdown

🖥️ Sandia supercomputer to run ‘hundreds of millions’ of nuclear simulations for modernization effort — Read More

• Sandia National Laboratories is preparing a new supercomputer capability to run hundreds of millions of nuclear-weapon simulations, enabling unprecedented modeling of component behavior, safety factors, and long-term reliability without explosive testing.

• The initiative is part of the U.S. nuclear modernization push, leveraging AI-accelerated computation and high-resolution physics models to shorten analysis cycles and improve predictive accuracy drastically.

• Officials say this compute surge allows iterative testing at a scale never previously possible, reducing uncertainty and accelerating modernization timelines across multiple warhead programs.

🐕 Ghost Robotics highlights new robot-dog capabilities in ISR, perimeter security, and contested-environment support — Read More

• Ghost Robotics has demonstrated advanced ISR and perimeter-security features on its quadrupedal unmanned ground vehicles, focusing on autonomy, ruggedization, and payload flexibility.

• Recent upgrades include improved low-light sensing, enhanced autonomy stacks, and the ability to integrate modular communications, EW packages, or small counter-drone sensors for base-defense roles.

• The company is pitching the systems as attritable, persistent patrollers capable of operating in GPS-denied and harsh terrain, offering an alternative to manpower-intensive patrol duties.

🛰️ AMTI ASAP: Space Force readying multi-source acquisition for satellites to track aircraft — Read More

• Space Systems Command is preparing a multi-vendor acquisition strategy for the new AMTI ASAP program, aimed at deploying satellites capable of tracking aircraft from orbit — a dramatic expansion of space-based moving-target surveillance.

• Officials want resilient architectures built from heterogeneous constellations to avoid single-point failures while leveraging commercial space capabilities.

• A solicitation is expected in early 2026, with the aim of integrating space-based AMTI into joint air C2 networks to provide global tracking even in denied airspace.

📡 MatrixSpace introduces high-precision counter-UAS radar for continuous 3D sensing — Read More

• MatrixSpace unveiled a compact 3D radar system explicitly designed to track small drones in cluttered, low-altitude environments, with continuous sensing and low-SWaP performance for expeditionary forces.

• The radar offers real-time tracking of UAS movement, improved clutter rejection, and seamless integration with kinetic and non-kinetic counter-drone effectors.

• Its modular design and low power draw enable mounting on vehicles, towers, and mobile outposts — supporting layered C-UAS architectures for both military and critical-infrastructure defense.

⚖️ To field weapons quicker, Pentagon should improve testing and evaluation process: GAO — Read More

• A new GAO assessment warns that slow, fragmented test-and-evaluation pipelines are delaying deployment of critical new weapons, including sensors, missile defenses, and electronic-warfare systems.

• The report argues the Pentagon needs earlier test planning, more realistic threat environments, and integrated digital engineering workflows to shorten validation cycles.

• GAO also noted that many programs fail to incorporate operator feedback early enough, resulting in redesigns and patchwork fixes late in development — further slowing fielding.

🌏 Other Important News

✈️ Air

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• Northrop Grumman to provide USAF with SIAW aircraft integration — Read More

• NHI delivering upgraded NH90 helicopters to the Netherlands — Read More

🛡️ Land

• Turning R&D into reality to meet the challenges of the modern battlefield — Read More

• More cuts loom as Army streamlines ground-vehicle autonomy efforts, official says — Read More

• Philippine Army deploys Cobra Safeguard system — Read More

• Israel tests heavy-lift drone for logistics and contested resupply — Read More

• Saab advances autonomous aircraft fuselage development — Read More

• China debuts pocket-sized quantum radio — Read More

• Turkey unveils new mine-clearing system — Read More

• Turkey demonstrates UGV-launched missile strike — Read More

🛰️ Space

• “There’s a divide within Space Force,” Congress forcing service to address cultural split — Read More

• China, Russia experiment with stealthy satellites, Space Force official says — Read More

• L3Harris delivers first Meadowlands production unit to USSF — Read More

♟️ Strategy

• “Enemy within”? NORTHCOM commander says he hasn’t seen it — Read More

• How a mid-tier vendor landed the Air Force’s Doomsday plane — Read More

• Rep. Adam Smith urges Pentagon to accelerate NDDA acquisition reforms, including Golden Dome oversight — Read More

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