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GCAP systems partners expect contract by year’s end

“We expect to receive our first international contract this year against relatively stable, high level requirements, which is what's required to disaggregate the work allocation," Andrew Howard, director for Future Combat Air at Leonardo UK, told Breaking Defense.

By Andrew White

Global

NATO summit could see 5% spending pledge, but it’s not that simple: Analysts

One official from an eastern NATO nation told Breaking Defense that a plan to create two different pots of spending could actually cause problems for nations who are planning to exceed the new defense target.

By Tim Martin

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What a historic absence of its top officer means for the Navy

The Navy has never gone this long without a fully empowered chief of naval operations. Former officials and analysts say the consequences of that are stacking up by the day.

By Justin Katz and Valerie Insinna

Air Warfare

New jet trainer in the cards as Japan seeks training fleet refresh

Japan’s search for a new trainer aircraft has meant that companies were keen to display their trainer aircraft solutions at DSEI Japan.

By Mike Yeo

Space

NGA hopes to award up to 10 Luno commercial analytics task orders this year

NGA's goal is to get through the bulk of the tasking under the $500 million Luno programs by early next year, NGA Director of Commercial Operations Devin Brande told Breaking Defense.

By Theresa Hitchens

Air Warfare

Lethal, agile, ready: 35 years of Air Force Special Operations Command

Lt. Gen. Mike Conley, Commander of AFSOC, reflects on the importance of the command over its 35 years, and looks ahead to its future.

By Lt. Gen. Mike Conley

Air Warfare

Japanese firms view GCAP as opportunity to develop skills, international supply chain

Execs and officials hope that GCAP can open doors for Japan's defense industrial base to expand.

By Mike Yeo

Global

UAE industrial trade show highlights defense localization push

One such agreement, signed Wednesday between the Emirati Tawazun Council and French firm Thales, establishes a production facility for Ground Master series air surveillance radars in the UAE.

By Agnes Helou

Global

Japan Steel Works to begin local production of Patria AMV in September

Patria's wheeled vehicle was selected by Japan in 2022 to replace the Type 96 wheeled armored personnel carrier that is in service with the Japan Ground Self Defense Force (JGSDF).

By Mike Yeo

Global

Germany’s Rheinmetall and India’s Reliance strike ‘strategic’ ammunition agreement

Key to the collaboration is a plan for Reliance to establish a “greenfield manufacturing facility” based in the Watad Industrial Area of Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, India.

By Tim Martin

Land Warfare

AI ‘unchained’: NGA’s Maven tool ‘significantly’ decreasing time to targeting, agency chief says

"NGA Maven is now available to all services and all combatant commands. There are 20,000 active users through more than 35 service and combat and command tools across three security domains," said NGA Director Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth.

By Theresa Hitchens

Air Warfare

The F-35’s future: The power and cooling competition that could change everything [Video]

In part two of our F-35 roundtable video series, Breaking Defense takes a look at why the PTMU is so important and gets into how the competition looks going forward.

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Congress

DISA will see 10 percent cut to workforce, agency chief tells lawmakers

“It's giving us an opportunity to ruthlessly realign and optimize how we are addressing what is an evolving mission," head of DISA Lt. Gen. Paul Stanton said about the cuts.

By Carley Welch

Air Warfare

CCA sticker shock: Coming soon to a congressional hearing near you?

Travis Sharp from the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments argues that the Air Force is giving an incomplete picture of the total cost of the CCA program — and that might be a problem down the road.

By Travis Sharp

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