"The prospects for complete success in deterrence of hostile attacks on space assets, particularly reversible, nondestructive attacks, are limited," the RAND study cautions.
“The only way that we're going to get to the scale of a prime that can change the way a lot of things are done is to work across the same domains that a prime has to do," Palmer Luckey told Breaking Defense. “You have to fight and win across multiple areas.”
There is no single answer to the drone threat, pushing the Pentagon toward a broader mix of defenses.
Dean Rosenfield, group managing director at Saab UK, told media that the acquisition was part of a “deliberate strategy” to grow and expand business in Britain.
As the Space Force prepares to launch highly classified space domain awareness satellites, China calls foul on purported close approaches to its sats by existing US birds.
The testbed will ultimately support the Marines’s “Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO) goals, which involve Marines operating in contested environments with increased bandwidth requirements,” according to Lockheed Martin.
In a social media post today, Shapps said he was “looking forward to working with the brave men and women of our Armed Forces” and “continuing the UK’s support for Ukraine in their fight against Putin’s barbaric invasion.”
Avoiding vendor lock and providing more room for sensors and upgrades are critical considerations.
“It’s probably one of the most dynamic and most [stressful] situations that we put our watchstanders through and our aircrew through,” Rear Adm. Marc Miguez said of using LVC technology.
"The system functioned for approximately three months before becoming inoperative because of factors such as insufficient battery life, damage to ground wiring by local fauna, and sensor failures in extreme temperatures,” the GAO wrote about one $7.6 million project with a partner nation for a ground sensor system.
The Navy's top leaders still need to sign out the creation and final details of the new office, but a draft document indicates the focus will be on moving advanced but existing technologies into the field for operational use.
Making all-domain operations a warfighting capability means integrating, fusing, and disseminating a sensor picture appropriate for a particular theater segment, not all of them, says the Mitchell Institute’s David Deptula.
The payoff is quicker tech insertion, avoiding vendor lock, and more room for autonomy, sensors, weapons, and mission growth.
“Rusty made a lasting impact on the company,” Austal Limited Chief Executive Officer Paddy Gregg said of Rusty Murdaugh.
While the Pentagon is still figuring out how to effectively ferry supplies across the Indo-Pacific theater, a top TRANSCOM official warned that the command may not have all the tools it needs to accurately track supplies in transit.
Sounding a note of caution however, the report questions if Spain can continue a "high level of performance and involvement" in EDF projects because of industry suppliers reaching a "saturation point."
The Navy confirms Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman are officially vying for the right to build its next-gen fighter.