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“China is replacing Russia as the No. 2 space power,” Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard and Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., told Breaking Defense.
By Theresa HitchensModernizing our supply chain is a national security imperative
Closing supply chain gaps in innovating technology will reposition the industrial base to be a strategic source of value.
Each of the new satellites can support up to 5,000 digitally formed beams, according to SES officials, using open architectures that allow governments to tailor the network to their own security standards and maintain national custody of the data links.
By Theresa Hitchens
From the F-35 to night-vision goggles, how military hardware performs in combat is increasingly driven by its software. But Pentagon procurement is too slow to keep code up to date, according to a forthcoming report from the Hudson Institute.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
With the war in Ukraine prompting questions about the health and resilience of the defense industrial base, legacy defense primes this year seemed to steal back some of the limelight from the Silicon Valley-based tech startups.
By Valerie Insinna
Peter Beck, the firm’s CEO, has big plans to follow the first launch from his new US facility.
By Tim Fish
Ukrainian deputy prime minister Olga Stefanishyna is worried that Twitter is becoming “the major source of manipulation” under Musk’s leadership, with Musk himself “test[ing] the manipulation limits he can use.”
By Valerie Insinna
Rather than going into a polar orbit, the Cluster 6 birds will be stationed in an inclined orbit over the middle of the globe, explained HawkEye 360’s Chief Operating Office Rob Rainhart in an interview with Breaking Defense.
By Theresa Hitchens
What’s new in naval radars and missiles: Defending the Pacific
Defending U.S. naval forces in the Pacific, Red Sea, and elsewhere require a range of systems from close-in weapons to anti-ballistic missiles.
“We’re not fighting [in] Ukraine with Silicon Valley right now, even though they’re going to try to take credit for it,” said Pentagon acquisition czar Bill LaPlante.
By Valerie Insinna
“A resilient, ready and combat capable Space Force is indispensable to deterrence today, tomorrow and every day after that,” the new Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman said today. “And in the worst case, if deterrence fails, the Space Force will be an indispensable component of our joint force at war.”
By Valerie Insinna
“If the [KC-Y] competition doesn’t go forward, I’m not convinced the next competition would be for a [clean-sheet KC-Z],” said Larry Gallogly, Lockheed’s LMXT campaign director.
By Valerie Insinna
“I think everyone agrees that if there’s a reasonable cost-based argument that paying for use does make sense,” industry analyst Tim Farrar said. But “I think Elon has made that more difficult rather than less difficult because you don’t normally negotiate your weapons contracts on Twitter.”
By Theresa Hitchens
Lt. Gen. Stephen Whiting talks “contested” space, his worries about space cybersecurity and what happens if adversaries target commercial US firms in orbit.
By Lee Ferran
“There hasn’t been a special operations international military that I have dealt with since the Ukraine crisis that has not talked to us about expanding information operations and psychological operations forces,” said Lt. Gen. Jonathan Braga, head of US Army Special Operations Command.
By Theresa Hitchens
The second moon race is on, and the US needs better eyes in the sky and coordination on the ground, writes Mike Rogers Center for Intelligence & Global Affairs Director Joshua Huminski.
By Joshua Huminski