The Soldier’s Radar: Infusing LTAMDS With Advanced Capabilities
Being built under rapid prototype authority, the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor radar has a 360-degree capability to sense threats from all directions.
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The Army Can Modernize Vehicle Propulsion, Mobility, Autonomy, and Safety With Commercial Solutions
Fresh off its first major win in the Army’s Infantry Squad Vehicle competition, GM Defense is bringing the commercial capabilities of General Motors to military vehicles.
Breaking Defense announces Breaking Defense Europe, a new, distinct, European edition
Breaking Defense Europe will launch May 4 with Tim Martin and Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo as co-editors.
Foreign Military Sales: Strategic Interests and the Supply Chain
FMS has become arguably the nation’s preeminent tool for building and solidifying relationships with foreign nations. We take a look at why it's important, how it works and the FMS roles of DoD, Congress, State Department, Industry and allied nations.
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Leonardo DRS’ “Energy Magazine” Gives the Navy Power for Shipboard Lasers and Other High-Energy Systems
Higher-power radar systems and offensive/defensive systems such as directed energy lasers require new sources of power.
Pathfinder: How an Air Force-Industry Team Saved a Critical Asset
How the government-industry team of the Air Force and KBR rebuilt Tyndall.
eBrief: Drones An “Immediate Threat” – DoD Plans Rapid Acquisition of Counter-UAS Systems
The emergence of drone warfare leads to new anti-drone technologies to detect, identify, and defeat unmanned threats.
Modernizing defense enterprise IT without disrupting the mission
Government can’t stop to update systems, so modernization has to happen without interruptions.
DISA Embraces ‘Zero Trust;’ Might Stop The Next Snowden
“We met with a vendor on the West Coast -- I can’t say who -- and saw how they had implemented it end-to-end in their own infrastructure. They looked at (cybersecurity) holistically from the user identity, to the identity of the endpoint, to the application. I was very impressed with what they had done," says DISA's Steve Wallace.
How Active Protection Systems Knock Down Anti-Armor Threats for Both Legacy and Future Combat Vehicles
If there’s one thing that Army leadership agrees upon, it’s the need for improved survivability of soldiers and machines against modern anti-tank weapons like the Russian Kornet and Chinese HJ-8 guided missiles, as well as Russia’s tandem warhead RPG-29 rocket propelled grenade that can bore a hole into a tank with a molten jet of metal.
Hungry For More Chopper Pilots, Navy Picks New Training Helo
The Navy will replace all 115 of its aged TH-57 Sea Ranger training helicopters with Leonardo’s AW119 helicopter.
Air Force Takes First Step Toward Commercial Internet Services
The experiment is expected to eventually lead to the wholesale replacement of the Air Force’s slow, cumbersome and ineffectual network with a modern, commercially procured one with improved speed, security and functionality.
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Why enterprise IT modernization matters now – and how to “delight by design”
Do more with less: streamline workflows, reduce duplication, invest upfront to save long-term.
New Program Report: AHTS and TH-73: A New Era for Navy Helicopter Training
As the Navy leans on the role of helicopters for an expanding surface fleet, modernized training for its helicopter pilots is essential.
New DISA Contracts To Focus On Cell Phone Protection
DISA will offer industry multiple contract opportunities to provide third-party tools to defend against malware and Zero Day attacks.
No Trump Politics In Picking Microsoft For $10B JEDI Contract: DoD CIO
Approximately 50 experts in cloud computing were responsible for selecting Microsoft for the JEDI contract, and were anonymous to prevent political influence from the White House.
Mind the Gap: The Army Looks to a New Assault Bridge for Heavy Armor Maneuvers in Europe
“If you took all the bridging in NATO and put it together we couldn’t get a Brigade Combat Team across a 400-meter river," said the commanding general of the Army Corps of Engineers.