A top official from state-owned Barzan Holdings told Breaking Defense the firm has invested with US-based SpinLaunch to fling satellites into orbit without the use of rockets.
By Agnes HelouROC-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.
It’s tempting to use AI to micromanage military operations from an all-seeing HQ. But experts warn the chaos of war means AI is best used to empower decentralized initiative — an area where the democratic West just might have the edge.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Winning future wars will not be about maintaining information advantage but rather prevailing when neither side has the advantage. And that is not a war that can be won by new technologies alone, writes CNAS’s Andrew Metrick.
By Andrew Metrick
The Air Force also needs to define which initial capabilities it plans to deliver under another ABMS effort this year, the Government Accountability Office says in a new report.
By Jaspreet Gill
Speaking with Breaking Defense and Defense One on Tuesday, SPACECOM head Gen. Jim Dickinson noted the importance of space “governance,” including “norms of responsible behavior,” and the “need to better preserve” the space environment.
By Theresa Hitchens
“We have to demonstrate a resolve as a country and as an alliance that prevents the worst-case scenario from happening or nobody’s going to care how much [readiness] I preserved for the future,” Air Mobility Command head Gen. Mike Minihan said in an exclusive interview.
By Valerie Insinna
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Data has been, arguably, the US military’s most valuable-but-untapped resource since the founding of the US Army in 1787 and the US Navy a decade later.
By Breaking Defense
A new approach to speed, scale and efficiency for the industrial base
Radars, EW, EO/IR, space imagery, and microelectronics are brought under one roof for a streamlined approach to common people and factories.
As “linchpin service,” Army sees logistical, communications and, yes, combat roles in possible conflict.
By Andrew Eversden
“China is not mentioned with one single word in the current Strategic Concept,” said NATO SecGen Jens Stoltenberg. “In one [way] or the other, I’m absolutely certain China will be reflected, and the challenges that China poses will be reflected” in the planned 2022 update.
By Theresa Hitchens
WASHINGTON: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has signed the strategy guiding the massive effort to knit troopers on the front lines to F-35s, submarines, satellites, ships and commanders across the globe, known as Joint All Domain Command and Control. The approval by Austin “brings order to our efforts in the command and control arena” Marine Corps…
By Colin Clark
The Navy also asks for five additional F-35C fighters, an E-2D Hawkeye and 4 CMV-22s.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
There is room for further development in areas such as electronic warfare and signals intelligence. “These ‘soft’ components were not as accessible in the past 12 to 15 years when we were so busy in the Middle-East; for example, there is a real drive to invest in areas such as EWSI (Electronic Warfare and Signals Intelligence),” Brig. Gen. Paul Tennant, the British military attache in Washington, says.
By Murielle Delaporte
A new pod-based comms system for the KC-46, enabling it to serve as a ‘translator’ for the incompatible radio systems of the F-22 and F-35, will be fielded in the last quarter of fiscal 2022.
By Theresa Hitchens
For the future fighting concept, “we must shift from domain-centric to mission-centric effects, planning and execution. And that has to start with rethinking our C2 from the ground up,” writes Scott Lee of MITRE.
By Scott Lee