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.
“The reforms will deliver, in our judgment…a net decrease in regulatory compliance costs, and actually expand the amount of research that can occur internationally without a permit,” Hugh Jeffrey, Australia’s deputy secretary of strategy, policy, and industry, said today.
By Colin Clark
“If we want to fight as a system… you have to start sharing technology now,” the former head of the Pentagon’s Joint AI Center told Breaking Defense. “We can’t build the system on the eve of battle.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The proposed legislation “expands Australia’s backyard to include the US and the UK, but it raises the fence,” Chennupati Jagadish, Australian Academy of Science’s president, said.
By Colin Clark
“I’ve had up close and personal experience where [US] leaders responsible for certain areas of technology have given direction that [Australia] is to be brought in because we have something to offer,” said Tanya Monro, “and yet, it still gets strangled.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“As quiet work begins on Pillar I, and as traditional sources of resistance return to the driver’s seat of alliance defence industrial and technology cooperation, there is a distinct risk that any progress towards setting the optimal legal and regulatory conditions for AUKUS, particularly Pillar II, to function as intended will falter,” the United States Studies Centre report says.
By Colin Clark
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.
By Colin Clark
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.
AEI’s Bill Greenwalt calls on Congress to step in to re-invigorate the NTIB before outdated export controls smother innovation.
By Bill Greenwalt
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Rebuilding relationships with partners and allies is a core goal of the new U.S. administration. A robust program of foreign military sales (FMS) and direct commercial sales (DCS) can strengthen ties abroad while empowering countries to both defend themselves and contribute to collective security efforts.
By Nicola “Niki” Johnson, Vice President for Government Affairs, Strategic Communications and Marketing General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.
Fabrizio Boggiani, senior vice president of airborne marketing, says he sees “significant opportunities” for expanding Leonardo’s market share by selling mission packages to international institutions and countries who don’t “want to buy and own the asset, but want us to fly where they ask us to fly.”
By Theresa Hitchens
PARIS AIR SHOW: As much as I tried to give David Melcher slack to say the powerful Aerospace Industries Association he leads was finding it more difficult to do business under the chaotic and oft-bewildering Trump administration, he kept saying things were pretty well in hand. “The first year of an administration is certainly more…
By Colin Clark
Bill Greenwalt worked for almost a decade as the professional aide in charge of arms export policies at the Senate Armed Services Committee. Under the Bush administration he took the lead on industrial base issues as deputy undersecretary of defense for industrial policy. Now Bill has moved to a gig where he can speak a bit…
By Bill Greenwalt
The best term to describe arms export reforms, much touted by the Obama administration and some hopeful membersof Congress, is slow. Irrelevant to this century might be better. The nature of the arms business has changed so much from the late 20th century because of the growth in global manufacturing that debating which widgets…
By Robbin Laird
PARIS: Our first video from the 2013 Paris Air Show. To loyal readers, we hope you celebrated our second anniversary yesterday. Our web site went live on June 15, 2011 at the last Paris Air Show. Since arriving in Paris on Friday, I’ve interviewed or taken part in media roundtables with more than a dozen…
By Colin Clark
In this op-ed, Kateryna Bondar argues coproduction in NATO countries could help Ukraine receive the defense materiel it needs while providing benefits to the host countries.
By Kateryna Bondar