Requesting “eight ships a year is not going to get to 355,” the Navy’s top budget official, Rear Adm. John Gumbleton, said. “All things being equal, if you have a 300-ship Navy and a 30-year lifespan you have to recapitalize it...so eight is not going to do it."
“Critically, we reallocate resources to fund research and development in advanced technologies such as micro-electronics. This will provide the foundation for fielding a full range of capabilities, such as hypersonic missiles, artificial intelligence, and 5G,” Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks said.
Balancing security and access to data are critical to providing users with trustworthy, reliable data for real-time decisions.
President Biden's first defense budget "biases the future, slightly," over the present, but Gen. Mark Milley says he doesn’t see any one service taking precedence over another in the divvying up of money.
"I know there's an issue with the total number that's been on the table for some years," Frank Kendall said. "What we should really be working on most is getting the cost down and keeping the procurement at a rate that makes sense."
“The future will be won by those who dominate the full digital spectrum,” Lt. Gen. Francis Beaudette, commander of Army Special Operations Command, says. “It will be as important as seizing and holding terrain.”
“Is it going to be cost effective? That’s why we have several lines of effort early on and there will be plenty of off-ramp [opportunities] along the way to determine if we move forward” said Col. Ken Kuebler, SOCOMs Fixed Wing chief.
Standoff capability means warfighters stay connected and remain remotely located in a safer environment while making it harder for adversaries to target them.
"The SOF that we have is not the SOF we will need" for the future, head of Air Force Special Ops Command, Lt. Gen. James Slife, warned today.
"Everything we're doing now is going to be hard," SOCOM commander Gen. Richard Clarke said. “It's going to be multi-domain, it's going to be partnered and it's going to be contested in every step...and there are countries that are close on our heels.”
“If you can give me a white paper in three weeks, I'll pay for your white paper in three weeks, if you can give me a prototype in three months, I'll [pay for] your prototype in three months,” said James Smith, SOCOM's acquisition chief.
Each airplane will have five flights to prove its mettle, with an AFSOC pilot in the back seat for the final mission to observe the plane's flight and handling characteristics.
After manifesting 1,400 payloads aboard the ISS, Voyager is applying its mission management expertise to the next generation of space stations, ensuring uninterrupted mission readiness and success from the ground to space.
Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger's announcement comes amid the radical changes he is making in how the Corps equips itself, and deploys.
The only real pushback either nominee faced was McCord’s previous call for the defense budget to grow by 3-5% annually, a number the 2022 Biden defense budget won’t reach.
Since March, the OSCE’s “long-range UAVs have been experiencing increased levels of GPS signal interference on take-off and landing, affecting both of their GPS receivers,” the group said in a statement.
“Of all the budget items that I see out there, the unmanned budget item is probably going to have the largest percentage growth over the next five years, in my view,” HII Chief Financial Officer Tom Stiehle said today.