Ashley Roque covers land warfare for Breaking Defense. Over the past two decades, she’s reported on defense, US politics, and foreign policy for publications inside and outside of the United States including Janes, Roll Call, Inside Defense and Shephard Media. Ashley holds a BA in English with a minor in journalism from Florida State University, and a master's degree in conflict transformation from the University of Basel.
“We have a continuing and robust dialogue with the [United Arab Emirates] on these sales,” senior State Department official Stanley Brown told Breaking Defense. “We remain committed to them, even as we continue consultations to ensure that we have a clear, mutual understanding with respect to Emirati obligations.”
The Biden administration may change course and use presidential drawdown authority to provide tanks to Ukraine, suggested Stanley Brown, the principal deputy assistant secretary for the bureau of political-military affairs.
“It’s been a little bit slower than we would have liked… but I think their view is they really want to get to the single vehicle counter UAS, and then they want to proliferate that worldwide,” said Michael Coulter, the president of Leonardo DRS International.
“There are some technical challenges to being able to share it, but ultimately, it’s really an authority….We can at least pick up a phone and relay that there is a threat inbound,” Maj. Gen. Clark Quinn, the deputy commander of Ninth Air Force, Air Forces Central.
“The Army succeeded in obtaining a lower cost than the independent government cost estimate through the recompete,” said Michael Sprang, the service’s JLTV project manager.
“We have seen no change in Iranian willingness or activities to transfer weapons to the Houthis despite their work with increasing military cooperation with Russia,” said Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East Dana Stroul.
Pentagon Press Secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, who avoided calling the object a “balloon” or “aircraft,” noted it was “not similar in size or shape to the [Chinese] high-altitude surveillance balloon” that was destroyed on Feb. 4.
A recent Congressional Research Service report told lawmakers they need to scrutinize the contract’s details to determine if the Army will save money with the new deal.
Referring in part to the Ukraine conflict, Sen. Jack Reed told reporters, “We are in a tremendously dynamic situation where technologies are changing rapidly, techniques are changing rapidly [and so are] operational issues.”
With programs like MTC, Millennium Space Systems is redefining what it means to be an operational prime – rapidly delivering operational small sat constellations on rapid timelines.
With programs like MTC, Millennium Space Systems is redefining what it means to be an operational prime – rapidly delivering operational small sat constellations on rapid timelines.
