The latest test inserted AI into the so-called kill chain, tested base security features and deployed new tactical-edge cloud systems to power the Internet of Military Things.

DARPA coded a program that can write its own software to build networks on the fly. But the program is at risk of falling through the cracks of the sustainment process.

NORAD is advancing the JADC2 concept of linking sensors and big data to secure the U.S. airspace.

The Air Force is using ABMS to help build digital twins, a move that pairs two top emerging technology priorities.

"The role of the service acquisition executive is now different," says the departing assistant Air Force secretary of acquisition, technology and logistics.

The algorithm was in charge of manipulating the sensor to locate enemy launchers.