Six ways DEFIANT X supports the Army’s total mission
The wars of tomorrow are won with the innovations of today.
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A robo-Black Hawk helicopter flew with no pilots for the first time
The Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System, or ALIAS, was outfitted on a UH-60A Black Hawk at Fort Campbell, KY, for a simulated flight through an “obstacle run” in "Manhattan" with no pilots on board.
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Why enterprise IT modernization matters now – and how to “delight by design”
Do more with less: streamline workflows, reduce duplication, invest upfront to save long-term.
Latvia Wants US Troops, And Is Ready To Pay For Them
The Baltic country is looking to open talks with the US about putting American boots on the ground in Latvia, a move that would surely make Moscow unhappy.
Extra! Extra! Read All About It! Defense Contract On Cost And Early!
AFA: Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky is on track to deliver nine new HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopters to the Air Force for the price the company promised and six months early — a “man bites dog” story, the very definition of news. Delivering early and for the promised price is far from the norm in defense acquisition, […]
Sikorsky Unveils HH-60U For Air Force Nuke Response
CORRECTED: Passenger Capacity WASHINGTON: The day before the Air Force Association’s annual winter conference begins, the newest wrinkle in the years-long saga of deciding what aircraft the Air Force would buy to secure America’s nuclear missile fields was announced. Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky will offer — surprise! — an updated version of the Black Hawk helicopter, the HH-60U. […]
Rites of Spring: Mating V-280 Wing And Fuselage
CORRECTED: 280 knots equals 322 mph, not 245. Spring has sprung and at the Bell Helicopter factory in Amarillo, Texas, it’s mating season, of a sort. If all goes well, by September of next year a bird of a different feather will take flight – the V-280 Valor, a medium-lift tiltrotor transport whose wing and […]
Breaking Defense announces Breaking Defense Europe, a new, distinct, European edition
Breaking Defense Europe will launch May 4 with Tim Martin and Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo as co-editors.
Army Seeks Industry Help To Stop Brownout Deaths; $1B In Losses
AUSA: The Army is groping for solutions to the worst threat helicopter pilots face in Afghanistan, Iraq and other sandy places – brownout and other forms of Degraded Visual Environment (DVE), which from 2002 to 2015 caused nearly 400 aircraft losses in combat operations at a cost of 152 lives and roughly $1 billion. “Of […]