The new vessel, coming in around 30,000 tons, will be capable of carrying surface-launched nuclear missiles, creating what Navy Secretary John Phelan called a new nuclear deterrent.
The service is spending $400 million on the pair of jumbo jets for training and spares.
The GPS network continues to prove its unmatched reliability, and it’s only getting stronger.
Air Mobility Command chief Gen. John Lamontagne — one of several new military nominees submitted by the White House on Monday — would fill a role left vacant since the firing of Gen. James Slife in February.
“The reviews are done. It's time to deliver,” said John Healey, the UK’s Secretary of State for Defense.
“I predict that what you're going to see is something that is far more… limited, both in terms of the number of threats that are feasibly able to be stopped, and also in terms of the area that [can be] defended against,” said Tom Karako with CSIS.
A former senior Israeli official told Breaking Defense Jerusalem should "build a trajectory that leads from the current model of the aid package to partnership."
Reducing cognitive overload on warfighters while improving “time to trust” for autonomous systems is a matter of design.
As part of the defense deal, Riyadh will purchase nearly 300 tanks from Washington.
The prospect of South Korea building its submarines in the United States would raise a litany of questions for the American maritime industrial base.
It’s not the first time Trump has fixated on the technology.
Gen. Mingus “always intended” for this to be “his last job,” adding that “it is a little early, sure but not significant," an Army source told Breaking Defense.
The network transport architecture for NGC2 could be a hybrid approach that combines high assurance communications with 5G, WiFi, and multi-orbit satellites.
Navy Secretary John Phelan said the ongoing review is designed to make the original deal “better," to clear up some of the “ambiguity” and be a “win-win for everybody.”
The unusual move comes nearly two weeks into the government shutdown.
The US Coast Guard in recent months has been signaling to industry it would soon advance its Arctic Security Cutter program through a series of requests for information and discussions with vendors from multiple countries.
The competition between Boeing and Northrop Grumman is the most highly anticipated contract outside the service's shipbuilding portfolio.