Air Warfare
The award is worth up to $1.3 billion, but a follow-on production contract could put the program in the range of $70 billion over its lifetime.
By Ashley Roque
Rob Wittman, who is currently the top Republican on the HASC’s seapower and projection forces subcommittee, is seeking the chair of HASC’s tactical air and land forces subcommittee next year.
By Valerie Insinna and Aaron MehtaModernizing military simulation with open systems architecture
Best-of-breed common models and architecture enable virtual training and testing with the same data in a cyber-resilient posture.
The work will expand on Israel’s experimental Iron Beam system, but aims to boost power, sources told Breaking Defense.
By Arie Egozi
“While the Plan continues to serve a useful purpose in reporting to Parliament on planned expenditure, the volatile external environment means this year’s Plan is already out of date,” said the NAO.
By Tim Martin
AI can make logistics data as valuable as intelligence or operational data for mission success
Valuable intelligence insights can be gleaned from logistics or flight-test data when artificial intelligence or machine learning is applied.
What Beijing may actually learn, Frank Kendall feared, was that “if we’re going to go and do an act of aggression, we have to do it in a way which [is] much more decisive.”
By Lee Ferran
The B-21, the first new bomber for the Air Force in over 30 years, “looks imposing, but what’s under the frame and the space-age coatings is even more impressive,” Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said.
By Valerie Insinna
Modernizing our supply chain is a national security imperative
Closing supply chain gaps in innovating technology will reposition the industrial base to be a strategic source of value.
Finland plans on increasing its Stinger stockpile in order to “bolster” land and air defense capabilities along Europe’s northern flank, supporting the US European Command’s “top priorities” in the process, according to the State Department.
By Tim Martin
A tranche of F-35s will be delayed, as will the E-7 Wedgetail, while the Atlas transport has overcome a “regrettable collection of discoveries.”
By Tim Martin
“When people see the exterior of the B-21, it will be very similar to the B-2,” Kathy Warden said in an interview with Breaking Defense. “The real differences are inside of the platform.”
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UAVs capable of operating independently from human control will still, however, require the ability to talk to each other within a swarm while being jammed.
By Barry Rosenberg
“I’ll say the day we can really say we have JADC2 is the day we’re working out of Ender’s Game,” said Air Force CIO Lauren Knausenberger.
By Theresa Hitchens
“In July 2022 Navy Command withdrew its plans for Type 32 frigates and MRSS because of concerns about unaffordability,” said the UK’s National Audit Office. “The revised
costing profile is likely to be significantly higher.”
The Liberty Lifter program aims to change how the Pentagon tackles air and sealift through a well-known, but difficult-to-use physics trick.
By Justin Katz
“The right-wing government in Poland and its leading party PiS (Law and Justice) has been for years very critical of Germany’s policies in many respects — including in defense,” said Marek Świerczyński, a defense analyst at Polityka Insight.
By Bartosz Głowacki
Military innovation and savings: Go commercial
DoD uses FAR Part 12 acquisitions to save hundreds of millions of dollars in “of a type” systems like civil landing systems with applicability to military aircraft.
