Gen. Jeffrey Harrigian, head of Air Forces Europe, said allies must be included in JADC2 development: “You can’t just bring them in in execution and go: ‘Hey we built the plan, so, sorry, just do what we told you.”
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“This is a just a DoD product. The 2011 National Security Space Strategy was very much a DoD-IC product,” one baffled national space security insider said.
By Theresa Hitchens
“I have great hopes that this administration, with its bold unilateral actions on so many fronts, would take unilateral action with this regime on UAVs,” says Keith Webster, former DoD head of defense cooperation.
By Theresa Hitchens
“This really was one of the higher priorities the [Indian] navy had, to get these aircraft delivered,” Tom Kane, director of Sikorsky’s Naval Helicopter Programs, says. “I requested that the aircraft be made available on an accelerated basis.”
By Paul McLeary
Lt. Gen. David Thompson, vice commander of the Space Force, said “someday” the Space Force mission will “extend to the Moon, to Mars, and beyond” — likely “within the 30-year plan.”
By Theresa Hitchens
The QZSS Hosted Payloads are seen as a pathfinder to improving US and allied cooperation in tracking adversary satellites and dangerous space junk.
By Theresa Hitchens
Former intelligence officials told us they were worried about London’s decision to allow the Chinese giant’s technology on parts of its new 5G network. A vulnerability anywhere in the system, they argue, threatens security everywhere.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
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.
The Northrop Grumman radio will provide one-stop access to four types of radio communications widely used by all services for air-to-air and air-to-ground communications.
By Theresa Hitchens
Alliances, including forward-stationing of US forces abroad, make the United States safer, its allies more secure, and all more prosperous.
By John Schaus
A larger NATO embroils the United States in obscure regional disputes, commits it to defend exposed countries, and unnecessarily antagonizes the Russians.
By Mark Cancian
Adm. Davidson pushed back against reports that the US might pull a brigade out of South Korea amid stalemated burden-sharing talks.
By Paul McLeary
The US Army is field-testing a robot brain so versatile it can drive both tanks and trucks — even British Army lorries with the steering wheel on the wrong side.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The average person in the world doesn’t understand how their way of life is linked to space,” says Gen. Jay Raymond, head of SPACECOM. “I don’t think the average person understands the threat that exists today.”
By Theresa Hitchens
A more ambitious effort for the NTIB would be to facilitate technology and data transfer for trusted partners.
By Brendan Thomas-Noone