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The testing took place under “realistic battlefield conditions” and five UH-60V’s completed a total of 200 flight hours, the Army says.
By Andrew Eversden
“Since this is done in a virtualized environment that is hosted up in the cloud through DoD, it is very, very, very secure… We’re pretty excited about this and it’s taken us a while to get to this point, both from a policy perspective and from a building out of the environment [perspective], but we are right on the cusp of implementation,” Lt. Gen. John Morrison said.
By Jaspreet GillA major overhaul is coming in software for missile warning
Space Systems Command’s FORGE program is the first, major missile-warning software modernization effort in 20 years.
“We think that China has a formidable aerospace capability, and they have concentrated that aerospace capability in the South China Sea region to deter others from going into that airspace,” the head of the Royal Australian Air Force said. “It doesn’t make it impenetrable, and it doesn’t mean you can’t deliver military effects to achieve your interests when you are operating against China.”
By Colin Clark
Enterprise-wide training: the Army’s $3.5B program for multi-service combat readiness
The competition for Warfighter Training and Readiness Solutions will bring together training networks, combat training centers and live ranges across the DoD enterprise.
Multi-Domain Operations: Global C2 and Joint Operations
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 Hitchens
Moscow 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 Katz
B-21, hypersonics and more: How digital development is driving industry innovation
Technological advancements are key to keeping pace with customer demands and evolving threat landscapes.
The 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 Eversden
Currently, 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 Insinna
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.
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“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 Gill
The 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 Hitchens
The 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 Hitchens
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
Why cloud modernization is critical to multi-domain operations
JADC2 is a forcing function, driving digital transformation of network infrastructure.
“The threat before the nation requires timely action, and the current trajectory simply doesn’t match reality,” writes Brent Sadler of the Heritage Foundation.
By Brent Sadler