The Future of Defense Tech; Rune Technologies & Military Logistics

INNOVATION

How Rune Technologies wants to revolutionize military logistics

Today, much of military logistics in the field is still manual. Inventory is tracked on paper or spreadsheets. In active combat zones, basic questions like what supplies exist, where they are, and who can move them are hard to answer quickly. Compared to other areas of the military, logistics technology has lagged behind.

Air Force Basic Training to Add Mock Airfields with F-16, C-130s

Second Air Force officials plan to inject more realism in Basic Military Training this year by building two mock airfields where Airmen will get hands-on training with real combat aircraft.

The Primes Aren’t the Real Bottleneck in U.S. Weapons Production

In 2021, a single explosion in Minden, Louisiana, sent shockwaves across the U.S. defense industrial base. For nearly two years, the nation’s only domestic producer of black powder stopped operating. Ammunition manufacturers were forced to draw down stockpiles and delay deliveries because there was nowhere to get the main ingredient for their product.

That episode captures a reality often missed in debates about defense production. No amount of pressure from the Department of Defense, whether applied directly or via primes like Raytheon or Northrop Grumman, can make production go any faster if the critical base components don’t exist.

How Defense Tech Enabled Operation Absolute Resolve

The U.S. military’s overnight operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro offered a rare, real-world look at how advanced defense technologies are shaping modern military operations.

INVESTMENT

Nvidia Bets On CoreWeave While Defense Tech Takes A Hit

Wall Street got a split-screen tech day: Nvidia poured $2 billion into AI cloud firm CoreWeave, while contractor Booz Allen sank after losing US Treasury work.

Defense tech startups had their best funding year ever in 2025

Defense-technology startups had their best funding year ever in 2025, with investors keen to finance autonomous systems and artificial intelligence for the battlefield, according to data from business-intelligence providers that track venture capital funding.

The value of venture capital deals in defense technology jumped to a record $49.1 billion last year from $27.2 billion a year earlier, according to data compiled by PitchBook and shared with Defense News. The PitchBook data includes startups that provide dual-use technology, including companies whose primary markets are civilian but also have defense applications.

TECHNOLOGY

Reveal Technology Launches Defense Tech Testing Series "BattleLab" on VET Tv

The first-of-its-kind training environment puts cutting-edge defense systems through their paces in combat scenarios that mirror actual battlefield conditions. The series is hosted by Garrett Smith, CEO of Reveal Technology and Marine combat veteran, alongside co-hosts Phil Divinski and Jerad Watlington, both Army Special Operations veterans with more than 20 years of service and founders of Jeddoc.

"In the battles of tomorrow, the team that adapts first wins," said Garrett Smith, CEO of veteran-founded defense company Reveal Technology. "The pace of technological change on the battlefield has never been faster, but the procurement process and the way units experiment with new tactics can't keep up. If we're not testing and adapting in training, we'll pay for it later."

The future of defense tech with Booz Allen exec Steve Escaravage

Steve Escaravage, president of the Defense Technology Group at Booz Allen, shares how the company builds defense technology, creating advantage for our warfighters.

A mathematician and computer scientist by training, Escaravage leads the business unit focused on delivering products and solutions to the Department of War.

From hardware to intelligence: the operating system powering next-generation robotics

After selling their previous company to Intel, founders Aviv and Matteo Shapira joined forces with Rubi Liani, and Adir Tubi, to build XTEND around a simple idea: software, not hardware, defines modern robotic operations; with a human in the loop approach and a collaboration with Lockheed Martin, XTEND is emerging as a core enabler of complex missions within the US defense ecosystem

POLICY

The evolution of state sovereignty and national security in the digital age

Over the last two decades, the nature of sovereignty and warfare has been fundamentally transformed by digital technologies and the growing influence of private tech corporations. The state’s historic monopoly on national security and defence as a defining feature of modern nationhood faces unprecedented challenges as military capabilities become entwined with commercially owned digital infrastructures and capabilities.

Air Force revives a deployment concept used for the GWOT—with a few twists

Air Expeditionary Wing 2.0 is the latest move away from Biden-era attempts to orient the force toward China.

January 26th 2026