Now retired Army Gen. Stephen Lyons projected in 2020 that the Pentagon’s sealift fleet would deteriorate rapidly starting in 2025.
By Justin KatzEnterprise-wide training: the Army’s $3.5B program for multi-service combat readiness
The competition for Warfighter Training and Readiness Solutions will bring together training networks, combat training centers and live ranges across the DoD enterprise.
The Joint Warfighting Concept will “envision much smaller force elements that are inherently reliant on very rapid mobility” within a theater, says TRANSCOM head Gen. Stephen Lyons.
By Theresa Hitchens
“There’s a lot of retrofit that will have to take place,” Gen. Stephen Lyons said about the replacement of the tanker’s faulty boom camera.
By Theresa Hitchens
Point-to-point space transport is “a decade plus, maybe even multiple decades, in the future for that to be economical and practical from any commercial standpoint,” Carissa Christensen, CEO of Bryce Space and Technologies, says.
By Theresa Hitchens
“The first is scheduled for Nigeria,” Gen. Stephen Lyons, TRANSCOM chief told reporters today, involving transport of “150 passengers” to Washington Dulles Airport in Virginia by civil aviation aircraft.
By Theresa Hitchens
The Air Force provided few details about the latest problem bedeviling the airborne tanker in its terse statement last night, saying only that it had “upgraded an existing deficiency of its KC-46 Pegasus fuel system to Category I.”
By Theresa Hitchens
Retiring the KC-135s and KC-10s before the new KC-46 tanker comes on line will have “significant impacts” on TRANSCOM’s ability to fulfill its wartime mission, says Gen. Stephen Lyons.
By Theresa Hitchens
Getting perspective on the reality of AI and quantum in defense
In a new eBook, Breaking Defense examines AI and quantum technology for defense and how – or if- these technologies will actually help the Pentagon.
A new study points out that the Navy should do better at tracking how many ships it can call on in a pinch.
By Paul McLeary
HUNTSVILLE, ALA: This morning, Army Chief of Staff Mark Milley warned Congress that “I have grave concerns” about the Army’s ability to respond to a major war — say, with Russia, Gen. Milley’s no. 1 threat — “in a timely manner.” Here in Huntsville, generals and executives explained a big part of the reason why.…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
