Patrick Tucker

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Senior Technology Editor at Defense One

Sci-Tech editor for @DefenseOne. Spies, AIs and the future(s). signal https://t.co/e6TjpPddhb

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Hegseth halves staff of Pentagon’s testing-oversight office

1 week ago | defenseone.com | Patrick Tucker

Insights & Reports The Pentagon office that oversees weapons testing will shrink by nearly half, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered on Wednesday, which will leave individual service branches to conduct testing with a smaller Defense Department watchdog. The Office of the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation, or DOT&E, will cut its workforce from 94 employees to 30 civilians and 15 service members.
For DOD, the future of large language models is smaller

1 week ago | nextgov.com | Patrick Tucker

The U.S. military is working on ways to get the power of cloud-based, big-data AI in tools that can run on local computers, draw upon more focused data sets, and remain safe from spying eyes, officials from OpenAI, Scale AI, and U.S. European Command told Defense One, part of a special broadcast airing Thursday.
Bill aims to lock in DIU’s dual-use reservist corps

2 weeks ago | defenseone.com | Patrick Tucker

Skip to Content Sponsor Message Sponsor Message Insights & Reports Two veterans now serving in Congress took a step Friday to institutionalize one of the Defense Department’s most effective—but lesser-known—bridges between Silicon Valley and the Pentagon: the Joint Reserve Detachment of the Defense Innovation Unit.
For DOD, the future of large language models is smaller

2 weeks ago | defenseone.com | Patrick Tucker

Insights & Reports The U.S. military is working on ways to get the power of cloud-based, big-data AI in tools that can run on local computers, draw upon more focused data sets, and remain safe from spying eyes, officials from OpenAI, Scale AI, and U.S. European Command told Defense One, part of a special broadcast airing Thursday.
Trump: Golden Dome to cost $175B, be ready in three years

2 weeks ago | spaceproject.govexec.com | Patrick Tucker

An architecture, a price tag, and a development leader have been set for the ambitious Golden Dome anti-missile defense system, President Trump said Tuesday. “We have officially selected an architecture for this state-of-the-art system that will deploy next-generation technologies across the land, sea, and space, including space-based sensors and interceptors,” Trump said from the White House.
Trump: Golden Dome to cost $175B, be ready in three years

2 weeks ago | defenseone.com | Patrick Tucker

Skip to Content Sponsor Message Sponsor Message Sponsor Message Sponsor Message Sponsor Message Sponsor Message Insights & Reports May 20, 2025 07:15 PM ET Missiles Homeland White House An architecture, a price tag, and a development leader have been set for the ambitious Golden Dome anti-missile defense system, President Trump said Tuesday.
The D Brief: US strikes in Somalia; UAE seeks DOGE’d DOD workers; Trump-Putin talks fall flat; Genius Machines on Thursday; And a bit more.

2 weeks ago | defenseone.com | Ben Watson |Patrick Tucker

Skip to Content Sponsor Message Sponsor Message Insights & Reports The Navy’s top officer said U.S. forces carried out “the largest air strike in the history of the world” during recent operations near Somalia. Acting Chief of Naval Operations Adm. James Kilby shared the extraordinary remarks Monday evening at the Council on Foreign Relations’ Robert B.
Special operations are becoming the Pentagon’s future ‘normal’

2 weeks ago | defenseone.com | Patrick Tucker

A second former defense official who has years of experience working with U.S. and allied special operators said, “The U.S. is catching up with the nature of the threats that we face right now. Like a brigade combat team is not going to really help you solve them…We're not really fighting any conventional wars. And our adversaries don't necessarily want to escalate to that point.” Indeed, adversaries are turning to hybrid warfare tactics, highly empowered non-state actors, and proxy forces.
JSOC commander likely to be SOCOM pick, sources say

3 weeks ago | defenseone.com | Patrick Tucker

The Trump administration is expected to nominate Vice Adm. Frank “Mitch” Bradley to lead U.S. Special Operations Command, according to sources familiar with the matter. Two former senior defense officials, a former senior military official from the special operations community, and a current senior military official said that Bradley, a Navy SEAL who now leads Joint Special Operations Command, is the frontrunner to replace Army Gen. Bryan Fenton, who took command of SOCOM in August 2022.
AI is helping the Pentagon go from finding targets to predicting threats

3 weeks ago | defenseone.com | Patrick Tucker

TAMPA, Florida–Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth has satellite imagery for virtually every corner of the globe. But what keeps him awake at night are not the threats he knows about. It’s the ones he or the intelligence analysts under him might miss. “Warning is the big behemoth for us,” the head of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency told Defense One on the sidelines of the Global SOF event here, “When you're talking, ‘Are we keeping an eye on all these complexities in the world?

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