EXCLUSIVE: Inside the Foundry, the Navy’s program to modernize hardware across the surface fleet
Breaking Defense was given exclusive access to the Foundry, the US Navy's office developing its Integrated Combat System, vital for the surface fleet.
Breaking Defense was given exclusive access to the Foundry, the US Navy's office developing its Integrated Combat System, vital for the surface fleet.
The Foundry will be the sister program to the Navy's software factory known as "the Forge."
"I've challenged the team here today: What can we do in terms of looking at next generation requirements? You know, big bets, whether it's in the transport layer, all of our tactical radios, what do we need to do to get the next generation of evolution," Army Undersecretary Gabe Camarillo told reporters.
The TLS-EAB program will have five phases and total about $163 million.
Army systems to give soldiers EW and cyber options on the battlefield are inching towards reality.
The Forge, a Navy software factory, has lofty goals and bureaucracy to beat, but plans to bring its work to an operational destroyer this year.
Breaking Defense Europe will launch May 4 with Tim Martin and Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo as co-editors.
In an exclusive interview, the officer in charge of the Navy's research and development enterprise said he wants the upcoming Hack the Machine event to result in real demonstrations for Navy leadership by next year.
Smaller unmanned vessels will act as expendable scouts and decoys, larger ones -- over 50 meters -- will carry masses of missiles, while manned ships will carry both the largest systems and the human beings essential for rapid adaptation in combat.
SAN DIEGO: It’s completely possible to plug Army missile defenses into the Navy fire control network, a panel of Navy experts said Wednesday. That could make an obscure system called NIFC-CA (Naval Integrated Fire Control – Counter-Air) the electronic backbone of a seamless defense against Russian, Chinese, Iranian, or North Korean airstrikes and missile salvos. […]
RADM Joe Horn (bio@ http://1.usa.gov/Y1l7Rq) to be Navy’s PEO Integrated Warfare Systems (http://bit.ly/Q6UUjx). Release @ http://1.usa.gov/VDUOwC SydneyFreedberg