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Carter, who served under President Barack Obama, tried to push the Defense Department into the technological future.
By Lee Ferran and Valerie Insinna
From Syria to a new strategic balance, Israeli experts describe concerns over Tehran’s new value to Moscow.
By Arie EgoziNew Army mounted system won’t play favorites when it comes to C5ISR, EW and A-PNT
The CMOSS Mounted Form Factor will facilitate tech insertion for new capabilities while co-existing with the Mounted Family of Computer Systems.
“We may say that we don’t want to, and we stand behind not doing, kinetic debris creating testing, but that does not mean that we should not have that capability,” said Mitchell Institute Senior Fellow for Spacepower Studies Tim Ryan.
By Theresa Hitchens
Future inevitability of quantum computers is a security problem today
‘Store Now, Decrypt Later’ attacks must be thwarted now with Zero Trust cybersecurity.
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TITAN is a thing of great strength, intellect, and importance: For the Army, it’s all that for JADC2
A tactical ground station that finds and tracks threats to support long-range precision targeting, TITAN promises to bring together data from ground, air, and space sensors.
By Breaking Defense
“We’re talking about a shipping container that includes everything: the power supply, the generator, the batteries, all of the computers, all of the antennas that will fit inside,” CEO James Palmer said. “You can put it into an area where you wish to get some coverage, deploy the aperture out, and within half-a-day you’re up and running and observing stuff in Low Earth Orbit completely covertly.”
By Colin Clark
GA-ASI’s MQ-9B: The right UAV for persistence, power, and performance
When assessing the state of the art of unmanned aerial systems, it’s critical to be very clear about what various aircraft can and can’t do – and could never do.
“If we’re gonna protect and defend the architecture, it can’t be just something that we do against just the space threat. It’s got to be against the holistic threat of both space and cyber,” said SSC’s Brig. Gen. Tim Sejba.
By Theresa Hitchens
An explosion at the underwater Nord Stream pipeline has geopolitical consequences, and highlights the value and vulnerability of the bottom of the ocean.
By Christina Mackenzie
The Army’s Project Origin robots have already changed the battlefield in exercises, but the office running the program says they’re just getting started.
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ECA Group and iXblue have become Exail, a merger that aims to net more international customers.
By Christina Mackenzie
The CSC will replace Canada’s Iroquois-class destroyers and the Halifax-class frigates.
By Justin Katz
Approximately 30 JADC2-related initiatives combined to request between $2.2 billion and $2.6 billion in the Pentagon’s FY23 budget, according to Travis Sharp of CSBA.
By Travis Sharp
“We don’t want your traditional industry brief. We want capabilities that we can get after the threat quickly,” explained Col. Joseph Roth, director of SSC’s Front Door industry engagement initiative.
By Theresa Hitchens
Although artist renderings of the B-21 have been published by the Air Force and Northrop Grumman, the actual B-21 aircraft has never been publicly revealed.
By Valerie Insinna
ROC-X – The solution to organic precision strike capabilities
At AUSA Global Force 2024, IAI will present integrated, AI-driven combat systems – both manned and unmanned – that are opening new opportunities on the battlefield.
Ukraine’s success against Russia in the skies shows how tactics have changed, in ways Taipei could replicate, write analysts Kelly Grieco and Julia Siegel.
By Kelly Grieco and Julia Siegel