Mikayla Easley

Mikayla Easley reports on the Pentagon’s acquisition and use of emerging technologies. Prior to joining DefenseScoop, she covered national security and the defense industry for National Defense Magazine. She received a BA in Russian language and literature from the University of Michigan and a MA in journalism from the University of Missouri. You can follow her on Twitter @MikaylaEasley

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An Area-I Air-Launched, Tube-Integrated, Unmanned System, or ALTIUS, is launched from a UH-60 Black Hawk at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz., March 4 where the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation & Missile Center led a demonstration that highlighted the forward air launch of the ALTIUS. (Courtesy photo provided by Yuma Proving Ground)

Army aviation community plotting paths to integrating autonomy into future fleet

AI

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Navy testing cloud capabilities on ships for improved, flexible access at sea

IT

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Upcoming Air Force demos aim to connect commercial satcom with military platforms

Space

The RAPCON-X concept (Sierra Nevada Corp. image)

Sierra Nevada lands contract for second variant of Athena spy plane

Emerging Tech

U.S. Army Soldiers experiment with new Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing/Space equipment during the Army’s 2021 Positioning, Navigation and Timing Assessment Exercise at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. (U.S. Army photo by Austin Thomas, Army Futures Command)

Army Futures Command considering ‘repurposed’ CFT for space-based, deep sensing

Emerging Tech

Members from the 114th Electromagnetic Warfare Squadron, 71st, 73rd, and 75th Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Squadrons, 392d Combat Training Squadron, and 379th Space Range Squadron, pose for a group photo during BLACK SKIES 23-3 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Sept. 21, 2023. (Space Force photo)

Space Force’s latest ‘Black Skies’ training event focused on drone threats, joint operations

Space

Space Development Agency Director Derek Tournear is interviewed by DefenseScoop Managing Editor Jon Harper at DefenseTalks, Sept. 15, 2022.

SDA director blasts critics inside DOD bureaucracy who don’t like his ‘bad cop’ attitude

Space

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Space Force awards contract to protect space systems, data with zero-trust approach

Space

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Eucom, Indopacom getting ‘Battle Labs’ to develop AI, data analytics capabilities

AI