“We’re aiming for cross-development, cross-buying and cross-use basically, because we need to align and ease up the supply chains and be able to sustain the vehicles,” Maj. Gen. Jonny Lindfors, Commander of the Swedish Army, told Breaking Defense.
By Tim Martin
Protecting against loitering munitions and a range of aerial threats. Leonardo DRS is supporting the U.S. Army with a radar-based “Top Attack” force protection capability.
By Leonardo DRS
Air Force Gen. Steven Nordhaus was previously confirmed by the Senate in September and started his term as the 30th Chief of the National Guard Bureau on Oct. 2.
By Michael Marrow
Gallery
“The message from industry that we have to share the risk of building war capacity between government and industry has been well heard,” said Morten Brandtzaeg, Nammo CEO.
By Tim Martin
Col. Mark Cobos, head of SMDC’s 1st Space Brigade, told Breaking Defense in an Oct. 7 interview that the command and the brigade are already “making progress” in creating allied partnerships — starting with the United Kingdom.
By Theresa Hitchens
Contested logistics means resupplying Soldiers and Marines at the edge, and doing so with autonomy that doesn’t risk lives.
By Breaking Defense
“Hopefully some time next year [the Army will know] whether we can go straight to procuring those things, or if we need to do development,” said Army acquisition head Doug Bush.
By Ashley Roque
“So instead of building something from the beginning, that’s one big thing, and that our soldiers are just going to take winches to and take apart anyway, this allows us to build something that’s a little bit more modular,” said Gen. Patrick Ellis, director of the C2 CFT.
By Carley Welch
L3Harris said it wants “further analysis to ensure the proposal received an equitable evaluation,” while SNC told Breaking Defense the protest has “no technical merit.”
By Michael Marrow
The aerospace titan wants to combine decades of detailed engineering data and test results with cutting-edge AI analysis to work out bugs in its designs before it builds them.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
UVision’s CEO Ran Gozali said his vision of the company also includes transitioning from “single loitering munitions towards autonomous, multi-launch arrays.”
By Andrew White
The new Counter-UAS Directed Energy Stryker is designed to defeat Group 1-3 UAS with multiple kinetic and non-kinetic defeat technologies. The capability fills the need for added multi-layered force protection against air and ground threats for the U.S. Army.
By Leonardo DRS
Maj. Gen. Lars Lervik, Chief of Staff of the Norwegian Army, told Breaking Defense that Oslo is in the process of receiving offers from industry competitors who have been asked to detail “price, timings, capabilities,” and delivery timeframes.
By Tim Martin
“We don’t [want to] inadvertently allow the resources we’re spending on soldiers and families to crowd out the modernization that we have to continue with,” Wormuth told reporters.
By Ashley Roque
