Breaking Defense reports, “The Army is planning a massive overhaul on how it acquires unmanned aerial systems, setting the ambitious goal of buying one million drones over the next two to three years, an Army spokesperson confirmed to Breaking Defense. Reuters first reported on the drone buy, which could lead to the Army buying half a million to millions of drones annually after the initial acquisition. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll told the outlet in an interview: “It is a big lift. But it is a lift we’re very capable of doing.”
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Starlink Passes One Million Active Subscribers Globally
The Daily Mail (UK) reports that SpaceX announced “that its Starlink satellite internet service provider has over a million active subscribers. ‘Starlink now has more than 1,000,000 active subscribers – thank you to all customers and members of the Starlink team who contributed to this milestone,’ the official SpaceX Twitter account wrote on Monday.” The news comes “at the end of a year in which the service, which provides low-latency, high-speed internet at an affordable cost – often to remote areas without existing WiFi – has expanded to yachts, cruise ships and RVs.”
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