A wide-ranging hearing on the F-35 revealed new details on the aircraft’s current operations, as well as its developmental struggles, including its beleaguered TR-3 upgrade.
By Michael MarrowWeapons development redefined: How U.S. industry and government must collaborate
L3Harris is working to ensure our warfighters stay ahead of the rapidly evolving threat environment.
The AOEW is designed to work independently or in conjunction with shipboard systems to protect vessels from incoming missiles.
By Justin Katz
The company has no doubt been looking somewhat nervously into the rear view mirror as new competitors race into the skyrocketing Pentagon market.
By Theresa Hitchens
“The delivery of Precision Strike Missile Increment 1 early operational capability missiles follows successful production qualification testing in November,” the service wrote in a short statement.
By Ashley Roque
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Innovative, interoperable capabilities networked seamlessly across all domains will be required to maintain the edge and deter future conflict.
By Breaking Defense
“This is a vision for the future, so there is currently no process of acquiring aircraft to replace the F-16s,” a spokesperson from the office of Portugal’s defense minister Helena Carreiras, told Breaking Defense.
By Tim Martin
“What we found is that systems that are heavily reliant on contractor support, that have a minimum of government-owned intellectual property or access to the intellectual property, that the flexibility to make changes in accordance with a new national security environment is limited,” Assistant Secretary of Defense Christopher Lowman told Breaking Defense.
By Michael Marrow
Enabling seamless operations across land, air, sea, space, and cyber
The real advantage comes when legacy, new, next generation and cutting-edge systems can work together in the battlespace.
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Sustainment Christopher Lowman told Breaking Defense that negotiations on the performance-based logistics agreement with Lockheed are at an impasse.
By Michael Marrow
James Heappey, UK armed forces minister, offered the latest comments about the incident that reportedly happened more than a year ago but has been shrouded in secrecy.
By Tim Martin
The new Viper Shield electronic warfare suite, meant to help foreign F-16 customers fend off modern EW threats, will be ready for production in late 2025, L3Harris told Breaking Defense in Dubai.
By Michael Marrow
DoD officials and outside experts have been wringing their hands for the past year over the state of the US supply chain for solid rocket motor technology, as stocks of munitions and missile systems reliant on SRMs — such as the Army’s Javelin shoulder-mounted anti-tank weapon, Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS), and Stinger missiles — have been depleted by sales to Kiev.
By Theresa Hitchens
“In ‘24, we intend to deploy that system in the region. I’m not going to say where and when, but I will just say that we will deploy them in the region,” said US Army Pacific commander Gen. Charles Flynn.
By Ashley Roque
If a final test report is positive, the service can begin accepting early operational capability PrSM missiles before the start of 2024.
By Ashley Roque
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Sikorsky’s RAIDER X is designed to meet the U.S. Army’s Modular Open Systems Approach standards for the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft competition.
By Lockheed Martin
