Marines to stand up first littoral regiment, eyeing more agile deployments
The Marine Corps is planning to establish three Marine Littoral Regiments in total, as China remains "pacing threat."
Revolutionary Tech Could Allow Near-Real Time Space Tracking, MITRE Says
The MITRE-developed software has been transferred to Space Systems Command for operational prototyping.
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Answering the demand signal to move faster, field sooner, iterate continuously
As threats rapidly evolve, digital engineering, manufacturing capacity and robust supply chains are critical to meeting challenges.
Hypersonics: Army, Navy Test Common Glide Body
The two services will use the same rocket booster and glide body, just packaged differently to fire from trucks vs. ships, with the Army version entering service in 2023.
Aegis Ashore Scores Another Hit As US, Japan Build Up Defenses
By 2021, plans call for Japan to have eight Aegis destroyers, four of them capable of launching the SM-3 Block IIA missiles, whose second successful test in a row comes as a vindication after two previous failures.
Israel Deploying to Eastern Europe, Pacific for First Time Alongside U.S. Forces
The Trump Pentagon is undergoing a major shift to focus on great power competition. And it's looking for allies to step up in places that might come as a surprise.
New Admiral In The Pacific, And He’s Got His Eye On China
The incoming commander of US Pacific Fleet issues a warning about growing Chinese ambitions while taking charge of the world's largest fleet.
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Undersea superiority: ASELSAN’s integrated approach to naval defense
As global navies adapt to evolving underwater threats, ASELSAN’s integrated sonar, countermeasure, and sonobuoy solutions offer a scalable, future-ready approach.
Rep. Gabbard Pushes For Heftier Hawaiian Missile Defenses
Pentagon planners aren't only worried about North Korean ICBMs, but Chinese hypersonics and medium-range missiles. That means, according to analysts, that an array of distributed systems are needed to meet a wide range of potential threats.
This Is Not The ICBM You Are Looking For; Detailed Analysis Of North Korean Missile
North Koreans are showmen: large 16-wheeled off-road trucks carrying missiles through the streets of Pyongyang are all about showing the ‘American Bastards’ that North Korea has credible road-mobile ICBMs. The ‘Young General,’ as Kim Jong-Un likes to style himself, has even claimed those ICBMs can threaten San Diego, Texas and Washington DC. American leaders have […]
SM-6 Can Now Kill Both Cruise AND Ballistic Missiles
From the Persian Gulf to the South China Sea, the US military is getting more and more worried about the threat from various missiles. But all incoming missiles are not the same, which makes missile defense much harder. That’s the problem Raytheon’s SM-6 interceptor tackled in a recent test that has important tactical implications. If you […]
Crafting A Pacific Attack & Defense Enterprise: The Strategic Quadrangle
The pivot to the Pacific started more than a century ago. The United States first became a Pacific power in 1898, the year the US first annexed Hawaii and then gained Guam and the Philippines (as well as Puerto Rico) from Spain after a “short, victorious war.” The United States is at a turning point […]
Modernizing defense enterprise IT without disrupting the mission
Government can’t stop to update systems, so modernization has to happen without interruptions.
Okinawa Move, Key To Pacific Pivot, Will Cost More Than $10.6B: GAO
WASHINGTON: Sloppy number-crunching at the Department of Defense means that the official price tag to move 9,000 Marines off Okinawa to Guam, Hawaii, and Australia – already estimated at a whopping $10.6 billion – is probably short of the real cost, according to a draft Government Accountability Office (GAO) report obtained by Breaking Defense. [Update: […]