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Latvian official warns Russia ‘tempted to test’ European readiness, sounds alarm over border issues

Germany changes course on plans to buy MQ-28 drone wingman: Boeing official

Germany has set a target of 2029 to field a CCA, which would make it the first European country to reach such a milestone, but that timeline now looks to be in doubt.

By Tim Martin

Air Warfare

Zone 5 ‘found a spot’ in drone interceptor market with new Eclipse: CEO

CEO Thomas Akers told Breaking Defense that the company’s recent acquisition by Norwegian defense firm Kongsberg offers “an immediate step change” for the startup firm, whose portfolio now spans from a reusable drone interceptor to a low-cost cruise missile.

By Michael Marrow

Land Warfare

Open system architecture will be ‘hyper important’ in downselect of Army’s XM30: Senior official

An open systems architecture allows the Army and its industry partners to plug new and different software and hardware capabilities into the platform.

By Carley Welch

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Air Warfare

CCA: The operational concepts driving the Air Force’s future drone program [VIDEO #2]

In the second video from this series, the Breaking Defense team looks at how the Air Force actually wants to use CCAs, and what some of the challenges will be to make that happen.

By Aaron Mehta

Air Warfare

Lockheed could see $1B financial ‘impact’ this quarter as F-35 negotiations drag on

“Given where we are in that negotiation, we don't expect to be completed by the end of this quarter, and that will cause an impact in the quarter — up to about $500 million in sales, and potentially about $500 million of cash flow in the quarter,” Lockheed's Chief Financial Officer Jay Malave said.

By Valerie Insinna

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Air Warfare

Navy awards L3Harris $587 million contract for next-gen electronic warfare pod

The award follows years of delay due to a GAO protest stemming from the service's attempt in 2020 to award the contract.

By Justin Katz

Global

Aussie startup’s small box turns drones into swarm commanders

The drone will decide if, say, an abandoned car near a road appears to be a threat or not. If it decides it's not then it wouldn't "bother the operator. The operator is doing something important," co-founder Matthew Buffa said. "I'm (the drone) not going to go on the radio and tell him about this random car I've seen, which is what autonomous systems do right now."

By Colin Clark

Pentagon

Commerce ‘on track’ for version 1.0 of space tracking system, using DoD data

In discussing the preliminary version of TraCSS, Richard DalBello, director of the Office of Space Commerce, revealed to Breaking Defense that he's stepping down at the end of the year.

By Theresa Hitchens

Networks & Digital Warfare

‘We will treat you better’: Commerce finalizes rule to incentivize industry to disclose export violations

A senior Commerce Department official said the policies had already been in use internally, but will now be enshrined in law.

By Justin Katz

Global

Hyundai Rotem expects delayed Polish K2 tank contract to be signed by November

Hyundai Rotem and the Polish Armaments Agency are currently in talks about which K2 components will be produced by “Polish companies," said Euiseong Lee, defense solutions senior vice president at Hyundai Rotem.

By Tim Martin

Congress

Where will Congress rank the nation’s security on its priority list?

In this op-ed, Elaine McCusker and John Ferrari of AEI explain that by not passing the defense bills, Congress is putting national security at risk.

By John Ferrari and Elaine McCusker

Air Warfare

Bell launches campaign to sell Aussies V-280 Valor tiltrotor

A top Bell executive is spending this week's Land Forces conference meeting with top Australian Army officials to start pitching the V-280 Valor.

By Colin Clark

Global

Allies in acquisition: MITRE urges Pentagon to work better with partners in developing, buying weapons

“What we're proposing in the paper is that the US defense acquisition community should have connections and relationships and conversations and awareness with our international partners,” said Dan Ward, a military technologist at MITRE and author of a new report.

By Valerie Insinna

Air Warfare

Anduril unveils new cruise-missile like weapon, plus voice-controlled drones

The defense tech startup disclosed a new “Barracuda” weapon, and put on a demo for reporters where drone wingmen were controlled using voice commands.

By Michael Marrow

Air Warfare

Army selects 2 ‘attritable’ UASs for company-level recon, surveillance and target acquisition

Anduril’s Ghost X and Performance Drone Works’s C-100 drones were both on the Defense Innovation Unit’s Blue UAS List.

By Ashley Roque

Global

Lockheed, Thales team to produce Aussie-made GMLRS munitions

Thales Australia, a subsidiary of the French parent, will manufacture rocket motors and warheads for Lockheed Martin’s GMLRS missiles produced in the Lucky Country.

By Max Blenkin

Networks & Digital Warfare

DARPA ‘quantum skeptic’ challenges industry: Prove me wrong

“We're going to do our best to disprove anybody who steps through our door,” said DARPA’s Joe Altepeter, “[but if] you convince my team, we will be your advocate inside the government, in rooms you can’t go.”

By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.

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