Space Force picks up pace of on-orbit refueling experiments

Space Force picks up pace of on-orbit refueling experiments

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Hegseth slashes $5.1B in Pentagon contracts for IT consulting, ‘non-essential’ activities

Hegseth slashes $5.1B in Pentagon contracts for IT consulting, ‘non-essential’ activities
Hegseth slashes $5.1B in Pentagon contracts for IT consulting, ‘non-essential’ activities
Hegseth slashes $5.1B in Pentagon contracts for IT consulting, ‘non-essential’ activities

A memo from the secretary of defense also directs the Pentagon’s Chief Information Officer to prepare to negotiate more favorable cloud computing service deals.

Reporter’s Notebook: A lack of clear Navy messaging at Sea Air Space

Reporter’s Notebook: A lack of clear Navy messaging at Sea Air Space
Reporter’s Notebook: A lack of clear Navy messaging at Sea Air Space
Reporter’s Notebook: A lack of clear Navy messaging at Sea Air Space

The changeover at the White House and the firing of senior officers could be felt at this year’s Sea Air Space exposition.

Save the Minerva Research Initiative — Again

Save the Minerva Research Initiative — Again
Save the Minerva Research Initiative — Again
Save the Minerva Research Initiative — Again

Nicholas Evans in this op-ed explains the historic importance of the Minerva Research Initiative, and the implications of the initiative being shut down.

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Indonesia eyes joining Turkish 5th-generation fighter jet program KAAN

Indonesia eyes joining Turkish 5th-generation fighter jet program KAAN
Indonesia eyes joining Turkish 5th-generation fighter jet program KAAN

“Indonesia wants to participate in the development of the ‘KAAN’ 5th-generation fighter jet and submarine development with the Turkish industry,” the Indonesian president said at a press conference with his Turkish counterpart.

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Ukraine Defense Contact Group pledges ‘record’ $23 billion-plus military aid boost

Ukraine Defense Contact Group pledges ‘record’ $23 billion-plus military aid boost
Ukraine Defense Contact Group pledges ‘record’ $23 billion-plus military aid boost

In parallel with the German military aid uplift, the UK said it is “surging” military support to Ukraine by leading on a £450 million ($583 million) package co-funded by Norway, featuring “hundreds of thousands” of drones, radar systems and anti-tank mines.

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  • Lee speaks to naval reporter Justin Katz about his recent trip aboard the USS Gerald Ford
  • Michael Marrow delivers the latest news from Avalon Airshow in Australia

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Caine confirmed as Joint Chiefs chairman, becoming Trump’s top military adviser

Caine confirmed as Joint Chiefs chairman, becoming Trump’s top military adviser
Caine confirmed as Joint Chiefs chairman, becoming Trump’s top military adviser

Lt. Gen. Dan Caine has promised to give the president his best military advice “even when the president may have different feelings about it,” he told lawmakers previously.

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Beyond ‘branding’: AUKUS nations look to outside partners for Pillar II tech

Beyond ‘branding’: AUKUS nations look to outside partners for Pillar II tech
Beyond ‘branding’: AUKUS nations look to outside partners for Pillar II tech

“The reality is, we’re already doing AUKUS Pillar II stuff with many of our allies and partners,” Vice Adm. Rob Gaucher, the US Navy’s top submariner, said.

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Multi-Domain Operations: Global C2 and Joint Operations

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After IVAS: Army reveals timeline for new augmented reality race, to name winners in August

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UAE’s defense giant expands footprint in Brazil with anti-drone and missile agreements

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Elevating the mission by modernizing the E-2D to keep threats at bay

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Northrop Grumman's participation in SDA's Tranche 1 Transport Layer program went from award to passing Critical Design Review in 13 months.

Air Force weighs plan to cancel SDA’s next set of data relay sats in favor of SpaceX: Sources

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The Army plans to accelerate IBCS fielding to combatant commands in Eucom and Indopacom and deploy it as part of the Guam Defense System over the next 12 months.

Deploying forward: How the Army’s IBCS unifies missile defense across domains

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Turkey’s Aselsan receives $616 million investment for Steel Dome-related tech facilities

Space Force takes ownership of first Meadowlands satellite jammer

Space Force takes ownership of first Meadowlands satellite jammer
Space Force takes ownership of first Meadowlands satellite jammer

The program was designed to both to increase mobility and improve the jamming capabilities of the Space Force’s legacy Counter Communications System, to include providing multi-frequency jamming in S-band and X-band.

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Western ‘coalition of the willing’ stumbles on reassurance force troop numbers, timeline

Western ‘coalition of the willing’ stumbles on reassurance force troop numbers, timeline
Western ‘coalition of the willing’ stumbles on reassurance force troop numbers, timeline

“We are stepping up as one ready to secure Ukraine’s future following any peace deal, we advance the momentum of that planning here today, planning to put Ukraine in [the] strongest possible position to protect its sovereignty and to deter any future Russian aggression,” John Healey, UK defense secretary, said.

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Zeitenwende reloaded: Cash is good, but can Germany reform its procurement processes?

Zeitenwende reloaded: Cash is good, but can Germany reform its procurement processes?
Zeitenwende reloaded: Cash is good, but can Germany reform its procurement processes?

Philipp Rombach lays out steps the new German government should take in order to better support the Bundeswehr.

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Acting CYBERCOM chief says dual-hat NSA role key to ‘speed’ in cyberspace

Acting CYBERCOM chief says dual-hat NSA role key to ‘speed’ in cyberspace
Acting CYBERCOM chief says dual-hat NSA role key to ‘speed’ in cyberspace

Lt. Gen. William Hartman took over for Lt. Gen.Timothy Haugh last week after Haugh was controversially ousted by the Trump administration.

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Congress approved a budget blueprint with up to $150B extra for defense. Now comes the hard part.

Congress approved a budget blueprint with up to $150B extra for defense. Now comes the hard part.
Congress approved a budget blueprint with up to $150B extra for defense. Now comes the hard part.

The House and Senate armed services committees have been directed to figure out how to spend extra defense funding, but have been given different monetary targets.

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Army conducting 3D printing sprint for small drones, eyeing scaling decision

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Army to deploy integrated data layer for NGC2 at division level before next Project Convergence 

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Contracts for SSC’s next iteration of MEO missile tracking satellites delayed

Contracts for SSC’s next iteration of MEO missile tracking satellites delayed
Contracts for SSC’s next iteration of MEO missile tracking satellites delayed

“Unfortunately, we were, we were slowed down a bit by uncertainty in our budget,” said SSC’s Col. Rob Davis, delaying awards for Epoch 2 of the Resilient Missile Warning/Missile Tracking — MEO program by about three months.

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Leidos unveils ‘low-cost’ unmanned undersea vessel ‘Sea Dart’

Leidos unveils ‘low-cost’ unmanned undersea vessel ‘Sea Dart’
Leidos unveils ‘low-cost’ unmanned undersea vessel ‘Sea Dart’

The Sea Dart starts at around $150,000, a Leidos official told Breaking Defense, and works with various payloads and software packages.

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PHOTOS: The sights of Sea Air Space day 3

PHOTOS: The sights of Sea Air Space day 3
PHOTOS: The sights of Sea Air Space day 3

A selection of photos from day three of Sea Air Space.

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A vibe check on the Sea Air Space conference, plus key points from SecNav’s speech [VIDEO]

A vibe check on the Sea Air Space conference, plus key points from SecNav’s speech [VIDEO]
A vibe check on the Sea Air Space conference, plus key points from SecNav’s speech [VIDEO]

Editor-in-Chief Aaron Mehta and Naval Reporter Justin Katz discuss the three-day Sea Air Space conference and share their big takeaways in this video.

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White House executive order aims to speed arm sales, cut red tape

White House executive order aims to speed arm sales, cut red tape
White House executive order aims to speed arm sales, cut red tape

The order includes a directive for State and DoD to compile a list of “priority partners” and “priority end items” for transfer.

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