“There’s a defense industrial base reality to this, certainly as it pertains to shipbuilding and shipyard capacity,” Adm. Linda Fagan told Breaking Defense.
By Ashley RoqueAutonomy changes everything about combat engineering
Sending robotic vehicles into the breach saves lives by removing humans from one of the most dangerous places on the battlefield.
“It is key to unlocking the modern capability that we all crave within our Department of Defenses and our alliances,” acting Pentagon CIO Leslie Beavers said.
By Carley Welch
The announcement was made at the start of the annual Halifax International Security Forum, Canada’s premiere defense event.
By Ashley Roque
The deals include seven new P-8s and 15 KC-46s.
By Justin Katz
The signing comes one week after Russia launched another one of its own icebreakers.
By Justin Katz
“It’s essential that the [Olympic Defender] allies and partners have a shared understanding of the battlespace, to ensure mission impacting decision-making is based on common perceptions of what’s occurring and likely to occur in the Area of Responsibility,” said Royal Australian Air Force Group Captain Julien Greening, CSpOC deputy director.
By Theresa Hitchens
Lockheed’s Glenn Copeland told Breaking Defense the contract has options to continue through the end of service for the Halifax class.
By Justin Katz
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“Not only would this cloud be a top secret cloud, but it would be classification agnostic as well, because the data is all tagged, because all of my users all have the correct digital identities, I can store all the data in the cloud,” said Brig. Gen. Eric Vandenbeg of the Canadian Department of National Defence.
By Carley Welch
“The three new rules … recalibrate our approach to export controls,” a senior Commerce Department official said. “These changes will offer relief to US companies and they’ll increase innovation without compromising the critical technologies that keep our nation safe.”
By Theresa Hitchens
The UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, on behalf of the Ministry of Defence and UK Space Command, will contribute an experimental sensor package to the “Redwing” project, managed by Canada’s defense research organization, Defence Research and Development Canada.
By Theresa Hitchens Andrew Spafford and Samantha Olson in this op-ed lay out ways the US and Canada could work together to establish a stronger presence in the Arctic, but acknowledge that Canada may not have the ability to build its forces.
By Andrew Spafford and Samantha Olson Russia has the world’s largest icebreaker fleet, and China is investing. Here’s how many icebreakers the US and its allies have – and how they intend to compete going forward.
By Justin Katz
Collin Joh, an analyst at the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies of Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University, noted that this effort is part of a “progression from just bilateral to trilateral, and now quadrilateral maritime cooperative activity (MCA) formats” in the region.
By Colin Clark
Analyst Andrew Erskine writes that Canada missed a recent opportunity to strengthen military ties in the Pacific – but says its not too late for Ottawa to increase its presence in the region.
By Andrew Erskine