Voyager is fortifying the U.S. Defense supply chain
Answering the Pentagon’s call to bolster defense industrial base.
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How the Army could spend nearly $19 billion in RDT&E funding
The programs taking up the majority of the Army’s RDT&E funding include FLRAA, THAAD, UAS launched effects, artillery systems, hypersonic weapons, counter drone tech and M-SHORAD.
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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.
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Countering missile threats with enhanced warning and tracking payloads
Missile speed, maneuverability, and destructive power requires more capable payloads for accelerated kill chain timelines.
SDA opens contest for 54 ‘Tranche 3’ missile tracking satellites
According to the formal solicitation posted on SAM.gov, SDA is looking to make three awards for 18 satellites each.
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Advances in radar are key to countering the modern drone warfare and missile threat
Drones, high-speed cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles attacking together from 360° creates complexity only certain radars can handle.
SDA’s data relay, missile tracking networks to be operational by end of 2025: Tournear
"By the end of next year, we'll have 126 Link 16 satellites that are operational on orbit," said SDA Director Derek Tournear.
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.
Amid Chinese activity, new NORTHCOM chief calls for more exercises near Arctic
China is conducting regional maritime activities "under the cloud of a technical or scientific research, but we think it's certainly multi-mission to include military" operations, Gen. Gregory Guillot, head of NORTHCOM/NORAD said.
SDA, MDA missile tracking demonstration payloads blast off
The agencies said in their joint announcement that the "launch of the two prototype systems will be followed by two years of on-orbit testing."
DoD needs near-term, ‘persistent’ INDOPACOM hypersonic missile tracking: CSIS
"The key word here is persistence," study author Masao Dahlgren told Breaking Defense. "How do we get persistence over the regions we care about? That hasn't been as explicitly put into prior work until now. This report puts into sharp relief."
Ursa Major takes aim at DoD solid rocket motor market
DoD officials and outside experts have been wringing their hands for the past year over the state of the US supply chain for solid rocket motor technology, as stocks of munitions and missile systems reliant on SRMs — such as the Army's Javelin shoulder-mounted anti-tank weapon, Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS), and Stinger missiles — have been depleted by sales to Kiev.
Modernizing defense enterprise IT without disrupting the mission
Government can’t stop to update systems, so modernization has to happen without interruptions.
UK launches Team Hypersonics in bid to eventually develop ‘hypersonic strike capabilities at pace’
Industry collaboration and development activities will be carried out through a Hypersonic Technologies and Capability Development Framework Agreement valued at £1 billion ($1.3 billion) over seven years.
Draft House defense policy bill would speed hypersonic missile defense interceptor
The draft National Space Authorization Act would also push Space Force on integrating commercial data and on over-classification of space programs.
AFRL taps Ursa Major for hypersonic, space launch engines
Responsive launch is enabled by the fact that Draper's hydrogen peroxide fuel is easily storable, Ursa Major CEO Joe Laurienti told Breaking Defense, which cuts down prelaunch logistics — whereas other highly toxic liquid fuels often used to provide the high thrust needed for a missile to reach hypersonic speeds (Mach 5 and above) require special handling.
Downing of Russian missiles shows ‘profound effect’ of Ukrainians training on US systems: General
"I think about the value of training forces that never previously had a capability like that and then we provide that capability to them. And they're able to conduct an intercept in that way," Gen. Charles Flynn said. "To me that's that's the bigger issue."