Canberra has emphasized the need for more production in Australia not just for the financial benefits, but for the strategic reality that supply lines off the island nation would likely be the first target in a conflict.
"The services today are working more what I call 'service all domain command and control' — and don't blame me for the acronym, it sounds like SADC2," said Scott Stapp, CTO of Northrop Grumman Corp.
Why edge and endpoint security can’t be an afterthought.
“Does (JADC2) increase lethality? The answer should be yes. (JADC2) makes us more lethal. We're a warfighting organization. That's what this is designed to do.”—Lt. Gen. Dennis Crall, director of C4 and CIO, Joint Staff.
"We've entered into the next big phase, what we call 'CDR season,'" Greg Manuel, vice president and general manager of Northrop Grumman's Strategic Deterrent Systems division, told Breaking Defense.
Supportability issues that affected the availability and performance of early, stealthy aircraft are being addressed by Northrop Grumman on this new program.
Aligning current and emerging technologies for Joint All-Domain Command and Control is the enabler that will let warfighters acquire data and quickly act on it by applying effects where they need them, when they need to, and on the timeline they need them.
Reducing cognitive overload on warfighters while improving “time to trust” for autonomous systems is a matter of design.
The new SBIRS satellite, called SBIRS GEO 5, will be "the most advanced missile warning satellite" on orbit, said Lt. Col. Ryan Laughton, SMC's program manager.
The new administration faces key decisions in the "great powers" competition with China and Russia. This includes implementation of Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2). In this brief video interview, Northrop Grumman Chief Technology Officer Scott Stapp offers some important thoughts.
CSIS's Todd Harrison said he believes that the "many challenges" to the SHiELD concept can be overcome "with time and money" -- and could well be worth expending because of the potential benefits.
One of the first projects the new DeSel lab will work on is testing structures for a futuristic capability that could be enabled by on-orbit assembly and manufacturing: space-based solar power.
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
Lockheed Martin's award means that all three big defense primes with deep ties to the Air Force now are in the running for Skyborg.
"All because President [Barack] Obama and others — I’m not just blaming him — thought it was a wonderful thing,” President Trump said. “The problem is, if we have a problem with a country, you can’t make the jet. We get parts from all over the place. It’s so crazy."
Given the critical nature of National Security Space Launch, winners of the competition to replace the Atlas V and its Russian-made RD-180s engines should have the flexibility to adapt to unforeseen events, the self-knowledge and willingness to work closely with the Air Force, and a record of excellent performance to avoid wasteful contract award protests. […]
ABMS is essentially the first effort by the Defense Department to "build the Internet of Things for the military," Will Roper, head of Air Force acquisition, says.