Lt. Gen. Eric E. Austin, the commanding general of Marine Corps Combat Development Command and deputy commandant for Combat Development and Integration, Portfolio Acquisition Executive, Marine Corps, ...

In 2024, Maven Robotics was brand new, and they had nothing — “a cartoon of a robot and a team of people,” CEO and co-founder Hamza Derbas told TechCrunch. Still, they heard a large consumer goods ...

Palantir created Maven in response to a Pentagon plan to identify and label hostile drones. Today, Maven uses AI to identify and target drones, aircraft, and other potential threats. The system is now ...

Project Valhalla is now targeting JDK 28 for its first mainline preview after missing the JDK 27 feature freeze. JSR 403 formally establishes the Java SE 28 expert group, with representatives from ...

With 32 nations in its alliance, NATO is challenged with tremendous amounts of data across various domains. Having acquired Palantir’s Maven Smart System NATO (MSS NATO) in 2025, NATO’s Task Force ...

Artificial intelligence is one of the defining technologies in modern history and is shaping the future of national security. But long before today’s debates over generative AI, autonomous systems, ...

On June 3, NASA officially said goodbye to its Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN, orbiter. The spacecraft spent more than a decade circling the Red Planet, gathering data on its ...

During the first 24 hours of the war in Iran, the United States used Maven Smart System (MSS) to help strike more than 1,000 targets, a tenfold increase over what was possible in the pre-MSS era.

As the Pentagon expands Project Maven in military planning and targeting, the danger is not faster war, but a system where human judgment appears present while accountability becomes harder to trace.

In “Project Maven,” Katrina Manson shows us how close we are to artificial intelligence picking targets and dropping bombs without human input. By Fred Kaplan Fred Kaplan, Slate’s War Stories ...

A U.S. Army officer looks at the interface of the Maven Smart System during a training session. Maven was designed to process vast amounts of data from weather to troop locations. Credit: U.S. Army ...

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