Battlefield communications in any setting can be tricky, but conducting operations in and around mountains, jungles, and the Pacific Ocean creates even more challenges to connecting commanders with their troops.

Human-machine teaming is changing how military forces take on challenges around the globe. For the world’s free and independent nations, small, survivable military drones, if used well, can create human-machine teams that help operators observe, learn, decide, and adapt better than their adversaries.

Marines and Sailors with Combat Logistics Battalion 6, Combat Logistics Regiment 2, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, utilized the Star Shield communication system during Exercise Freezing Winds 2025 in Finland, Oct. – Dec., 2025.

. — A space-focused program spreading hundreds of small satellites in low orbit aims to bring clearer communications and faster data transfer in the field to military units, a key to Marine Corps war-fighting needs.

MyDefence, a company committed to staying at the forefront of next-generation drone detection and jamming solutions, has announced the Wideband Antenna, an innovation designed to expose the unseen threats shaping modern warfare. With this announcement, the company behind Wingman, one of the market's smallest wearable drone detectors, has launched a new technology designed to expose

. — During the Army’s recent technical exchange meeting with industry, Army leaders updated industry partners on Next Generation Command and Control, or NGC2, priorities, opportunities and the way acquisition transformation is enabling the rapid delivery of these emerging commercial capabilities.

The Army’s modernized, integrated network is gaining traction, literally. Following the successful fielding of the Integrated Tactical Network’s (ITN) Capability Set 21 (CS21) kit of equipment to four Infantry Brigade Combat Teams, Capability Set 23 (CS23) is inching closer to bringing the same modernized network capabilities to Stryker formations.

The HuRT-C’s purpose is to develop manned-unmanned teams (MUMT) capable of conducting reconnaissance and providing direct fire support to improve the combat effectiveness of a squad-sized element.

Red Cat Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: RCAT) has introduced their new family of unmanned Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) and precision lethal strike systems.

California firefighters from some of the areas hardest hit by wildland fires are training on a new tool for their response efforts—a mobile application to harness wildfire situational awareness data.