Capability exists to simulate the future of kill chains at theater scale
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“If you are a supplier, and your lead time is too long, and you refuse to work with us” on 3D printing alternative spare parts, said Rear Adm. Jon Rucker, “we’re going to figure it out. Not a threat – a fact of life.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“Our aim is not merely to maintain America’s edge, but to sharpen it and lay the foundation for continued U.S. leadership in critical technologies and capabilities that will define the battlespace of the future,” Pentagon acquisition executive Bill LaPlante wrote in a foreword to the new National Defense Industrial Strategy Implementation Plan.
By Valerie Insinna
Three years after the fall of Kabul, the US Navy is helping to fund several training programs recruiting Afghan immigrants to work for the nation’s ailing shipbuilding industry.
By Valerie Insinna
The US is still great at designing chips but has offshored the ability to build prototypes, which slows innovation and risks IP theft, said OSD’s Dev Shenoy.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Hadrian CEO and founder Chris Power told Breaking Defense he envisions the company building “10 to 20 mega factories in all of the core manufacturing space in the country,” producing parts for “all the primes and neo-primes.”
By Valerie Insinna
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L3Harris is answering the Department of Defense’s call for strengthened competition, safeguarding a future for the nation and democracy worldwide.
By Ross Niebergall, President, Aerojet Rocketdyne, L3Harris Technologies
Better user interface and experience create faster decision-making in multi-domain operations
Improved UX and UI can enable smarter use of AI and automation, helping warfighters manage data-rich environments and make faster, more informed decisions.
Boldest among the report’s recommendations is a proposal for what it calls a new “Multiple Theater Force Construct” to fix the current, “out-of-date” version.
By Lee Ferran
Northrop’s coproduction agreement is the first publicly acknowledged deal between a US defense prime and the Ukrainian government for a manufacturing project inside Ukraine.
By Valerie Insinna
“The Japanese defense industry as a whole is really hurting from the hollowing out of those second tier and third tier suppliers,” said Yuki Tatsumi, director of the Japan program at the Stimson Center. “Left to its own devices, I just don’t think it’s sustainable long term.”
By Valerie Insinna
“I call this the million monkeys at a typewriter,” CIA CTO Nand Mulchandani said. “You can’t pick the specific monkey that is going to crank out Shakespeare.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“If the price of a platform is variable and the Pentagon plans for three and isn’t really adjusting for inflation, eventually they’re going to realize they get two,” said Aerospace Industries Association CEO Eric Fanning.
By Valerie Insinna
In this op-ed, Jeffrey Nadaner lays out ways to modernize the Defense Production Act to better serve the defense industrial base.
By Jeffrey “Jeb” Nadaner
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Closing supply chain gaps in innovating technology will reposition the industrial base to be a strategic source of value.
By Breaking Defense
Instead of stockpiling small numbers of ultra-high-performance weapons, the DoD should design missiles that can be mass produced on demand and adapt to enemy countermeasures, write Hudson Institute scholars Bryan Clark and Dan Patt.
By Bryan Clark and Dan Patt