Lee Ferran is the Managing Editor of Breaking Defense, responsible for editing coverage, organizing, scheduling and optimizing editorial operations, and developing our content platforms. Lee brings significant journalistic experience to the role, working at ABC News for over nine years as a national security reporter, investigative reporter and editor of their enterprise investigations unit. Over his career Lee has covered US military budgets and spending, cybersecurity vulnerabilities and controversial counter-terrorism programs. He's the recipient of two News Emmy Awards. Lee's an avid traveler, movie addict and amateur coder, with particular interest in media technology. A native of Georgia, Lee is a graduate of Wake Forest University.
“We’ve been doing export for 15, 20 years, but it’s just been in recent years that we’ve really been reaching out to create global defense industrial base, creating global partnerships, partnerships in local countries,” Hanwha Global Defense President & CEO Michael Coulter told Breaking Defense.
Calidus occupies a large event space in an outdoor pavilion, where it’s showing off several armored vehicles, one of which featured an “ALHEDA” mounted missile pod.
The MDA described the event as a “pivotal step” towards a larger, more holistic Guam Defense System designed to take on multiple threats at once — a “persistent layered integrated air and missile defense capability.”
Rep. Jim Himes said the 2027 warnings are the “kind of thing that hawks in the House say and I’m supposed to be really scared by that, rather than by saying, ‘Okay, well how do we take the steps to make that eventuality less likely?'”
Amphib readiness has been a topic of much discussion, as service leaders, lawmakers and the executive branch have scuffled over just how many of the ships the Marine Corps really needs, and how relevant they are to modern combat operations.
Chief of Defence of the Netherlands Gen. Onno Eichelsheim told Breaking Defense that F-16s are already in play and that Ukraine doesn’t have the pilots to man new, complex systems.
The US has seen “very high interest” in American defense articles and services as Russia’s influence wanes, a State Department official told Breaking Defense, though limited budgets mean foreign military sales will likely focus on “niche” needs of Central Asian nations.
Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse also said that North Korean troops in Russia may be among the best Pyongyang has to offer but probably aren’t suited for the job they could be called to do.
Hegseth, currently a co-host of Fox News’s “Fox & Friends Weekend”, was an infantry captain in the Army National Guard and served in Afghanistan, Iraq and at the US outpost in Guantanamo Bay.
By fact checking the AI through a new verification process for Large Language Models, it’s possible to reduce hallucinations from 5-10 percent to as low as 0.1 percent.
By fact checking the AI through a new verification process for Large Language Models, it’s possible to reduce hallucinations from 5-10 percent to as low as 0.1 percent.
