Laboratory technicians work on samples to be tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus at a testing facility in Wuhan, China on August 4, 2021. (Getty Images)
A production line of the Glide, a high-altitude glider that delivers munitions across thousands of miles, is seen at the defense tech startup Mach Industries in Huntington Beach, California, on September 11, 2025. (Getty Images)
Mintasca's robots dance during the 2023 World Artificial intelligence conference in Shanghai, China, on July 6, 2023 (Ying Tang/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
A display shows the image processing of a Quantum AI security camera at the SK Telecom pavilion during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on April 2, 2024. (Photo by Joan Cros/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Ukrainian servicemen fire a French-made CAESAR self-propelled howitzer toward Russian positions in eastern Ukraine on December 28, 2022. (Photo by Sameer al-Doumy/AFP via Getty Images)
The first of two Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptors is launched during a successful intercept test on September 10, 2013. (Missile Defense Agency photo)