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SpaceLink intends to put four data relay satellites in Medium Earth Orbit, to complement and backup the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer.
By Theresa HitchensMoscow may need to build a new shipyard to meet its aspirations, including Russia’s own “Pacific pivot,” and sanctions are only making things more difficult, analysts told Breaking Defense.
By Justin KatzThe Army will ship AeroVironment’s JUMP 20 to a brigade to meet an immediate operational need to replace RQ-7 Shadow. The service is holding a separate competitive rapid prototyping effort for increment two.
By Andrew EversdenCurrently, the Air Force envisions its next-generation KC-Z tanker as a family of systems, which could include a tanker aircraft as well as “other technologies, whether it’s survivability, or connectivity, or maybe efficiencies that we want to pull into that,” said program officer Paul Waugh.
By Valerie InsinnaAll Domain: Connecting the Joint Force
CEO and chairman David Goodrich told Breaking Defense the $100 million USD effort to build three prototype Extra Large Autonomous Undersea Vehicles (XL-AUVs) in three years is just the beginning of ambitious plans for the company.
By Colin Clark“So JADC2 is large and we hear people wanting to understand what’s in JADC2, what’s not JADC2,” Rear Adm. Susan BryerJoyner said. “If you accept my premise, my hypothesis, that it’s about a different way to compete and fight, almost everything is JADC2.”
By Jaspreet GillThe National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine is planning to release on Sept. 9 its review of the impacts on DoD use of GPS – just a few weeks before Ligado plans to go live.
By Theresa HitchensThe TLS-EAB program will have five phases and total about $163 million.
By Andrew Eversden“This agreement is a significant step in responding to the Government of Ukraine’s urgent request for critical earth observation data and it will greatly benefit our Armed Forces,” said Serhiy Prytula, whose eponymous foundation crowdsources kit for the Ukrainian military.
By Theresa HitchensForward Observer: Technologies for 21st Century Security
The service has known about the clutch failure phenomenon since 2010 and feels “that we have the appropriate procedures in place to handle this emergency procedure in the event that it occurs again,” a Marine Corps official said.
By Justin KatzThe laser is scheduled for at-sea tests on the destroyer Preble in fiscal 2023.
By Justin KatzThe G-6 is working closely with Raj Iyer, the Army’s chief information officer, on “characterizing” some of the legacy data centers the service wants to eventually shut down that are no longer needed.
By Jaspreet Gill
Usually a tool to inform policy, the US government used intelligence itself for strategic effects – which could have implications for the future of conflict and diplomacy, writes Joshua Huminski.
By Joshua Huminski