New Army mounted system won’t play favorites when it comes to C5ISR, EW and A-PNT
The CMOSS Mounted Form Factor will facilitate tech insertion for new capabilities while co-existing with the Mounted Family of Computer Systems.
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SPACECOM wants $1.2B in FY25 for ‘unfunded priorities,’ most classified
The SPACECOM list includes almost $704 million for three unnamed classified programs, as well as $90 million to fund a trio of classified Navy electronic warfare-based "counterspace" capabilities.
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AGVs vs. UGVs: A new class of ground autonomy takes the field
One commander, many robots: Fully autonomous ground vehicles are reshaping the battlefield.
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Future inevitability of quantum computers is a security problem today
‘Store Now, Decrypt Later’ attacks must be thwarted now with Zero Trust cybersecurity.
AUKUS army chiefs’ lessons from Ukraine: ‘Explosion’ in autonomy, value of long-range fires
The US Army chief, Gen. Randy George, offered an intriguing possible win for AUKUS Pillar 2: "a common controller" for unmanned systems, allowing the three allies to exchange systems.
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BAE Systems’ LR-PGK: The superior Anti-Jam solution
Going the distance to defeat emerging jam threats.
Ukraine war turns 2: Lessons learned and what comes next
On the two year anniversary of the war, the Breaking Defense team has assembled a series of pieces on the state of the conflict across multiple domains, what might come in year three, and what lessons the US has learned from the conflict.
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From requirement-driven to market-ready: Rethinking how defense technology reaches the warfighter
As threats continue to evolve, speed will increasingly depend on what is already available when the need emerges.
As US funding remains in limbo, Northrop chases exports for F-16 EW suite
Two international customers so far have signed on to buy Northrop’s Integrated Viper Electronic Warfare Suite, and the company hopes more could be in the works.
From Russia with nukes? Sifting facts from speculation about space weapon threat
"Nuclear weapons in space are a really, really dumb idea," said Jessica West of Canadian non-profit Ploughshares, but experts note that with Russia, nothing can ever be fully ruled out.
As Baltics see spike in GPS jamming, NATO must respond
Dana Goward, president of the Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation, argues in this op-ed that Russia could be putting civilians at risk with suspected jamming in Eastern Europe.
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Airborne EW: Dominating the spectrum to win battles
It takes a layered defense plan to be survivable, which means jammers to disable, deceive, and disrupt, along with onboard self-protect and off-board decoys.
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Why Bigger Fences Aren’t Enough in the Age of Drones
Traditional thinking about how to protect facilities must adapt to new threats such as drones or downstream attacks.
UK begins next-gen Eurofighter Typhoon radar integration, eyeing ‘powerful’ EW capabilities
With a first flight planned for this year, manufacturers BAE Systems and Leonardo said the advanced radar will be “able to locate and deny use of an adversary’s radar with a powerful electronic jamming attack, whilst staying beyond the reach of threats.”
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The national security space enterprise is being modernized and it’s happening from the ground
Digital engineering and modern tools and processes offer near-term opportunities to improve satellite mission planning, data processing, command and control, and cybersecurity.
High-tech trench warfare: 5 hard-won lessons-learned for the US from Ukraine
From expendable drones, to ad hoc battle networks, to hacker “armies” of volunteers, the war in Ukraine has shown the big-spending US military new ways to fight in the Information Age.
‘They’re also learning’: Russia, Ukraine race to out-innovate each other
Tactics and technology advance so fast that a drone that’s cutting-edge today will be obsolescent in two months, Ukrainian and NATO officers say.