Australia’s minister for defense procurement, Pat Conroy, noted in a statement that, “Australia was the first country, other than the United States, to fire the SM-6 missile, underscoring the strength of our alliance.”
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Coming in 2025! The Washington Monument is an iconic part of Washington. There’s something else monumental coming to defense in DC in 2025.
“Having a manufacturing complex in Australia will enable production of solid rocket motors for ourselves, firstly and then ultimately, from an export perspective, to our allies and partners around the world. And there is, at the moment, an inability to meet that demand,” David Goodrich, Anduril Australia CEO, told Breaking Defense.
By Colin Clark
It’s a key win for a company still working its way into the solid rocket motor industry.
By Justin Katz
“The bottom line is the entire joint force is required to help deliver effects to both deter and fight and win,” said US Indo-Pacific Command head Navy Admiral John Aquilino.
By Ashley Roque
“We’re gonna down-select … later in the year. Then I have to worry about future budgets, and so that’s what’s really going to throttle” the number of contractors, says MDA Director Vice Adm. Jon Hill.
By Theresa Hitchens
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The joint venture on the SM-3 Block IIA interceptor between Raytheon and the Japanese defense industry could point the way for international defense cooperation in the future.
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When it comes to Raytheon’s Standard Missile-6, there really is no comparison. It was most recently described by the Missile Defense Agency as the “Swiss-Army knife of missiles,” boasting three missions within one effector. That means a great deal to Navy commanders who have limited space onboard their ships and can wield anti-air warfare, ballistic…
By Raytheon
PENTAGON: The U.S. Navy’s budget is growing by over $12 billion in 2019, and more ships are on their way – but not enough to get to the hoped-for 355-ship fleet any time before the 2050s. In unveiling its $194.1 billion budget for the 2019 fiscal year on Monday, Navy officials highlighted the increase in…
By Paul McLeary
As the surface Navy intensively strives to achieve the cross domain capabilities so essential to warfighting success against a near-peer competitor, Raytheon is using its wide spectrum of defense technologies to support those efforts. Modern warfare increasingly requires operations across all of the five domains of land air, surface, subsurface, space and cyberspace. A key…
By Otto Kreisher [Sponsored by Raytheon]
It’s a big day for the 2,500-pound Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile, LRASM. This morning, contractor Lockheed Martin announced an $86.5 million contract to build the first 23 production missiles – as opposed to test weapons – for use by Navy Super Hornet fighters and Air Force B-1B bombers. Lockheed also announce this afternoon that it had,…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
CAPITOL HILL: The Marine Corps’ top pilot sketched a vision of fast-paced and networked air operations, spearheaded by F-35 fighters, V-22 tiltrotors, and the future MUX drones, all linked to each other and the rest of the force by Link-16 and MADL. Marine F-35s have already practiced spotting targets for Marine artillery rockets and Navy…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
William Roper is “buying time” for the rest of the Pentagon, he told us in a rare interview. His Strategic Capabilities Office finds near-term but game-changing upgrades for existing weapons systems, preserving American advantage over rapidly advancing adversaries while DARPA and Defense Department labs develop a new generation of breakthroughs. Yesterday, we wrote about Roper’s…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
In this op-ed, Mackenzie Eaglen and Cole Spiller of AEI lay out why the Pentagon shouldn’t be so quick to retire old technologies in favor of newer ones.
By Mackenzie Eaglen and Cole Spiller