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With a MOSA-enabled backbone, the ITEP engine, launched effects, and autonomy, the Black Hawk helicopter would be well-suited to both near-peer conflict and all-domain operations.
By Breaking Defense![Keeping the Lakota helicopter flying for the Army and National Guard is also a job for the OEM](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2023/11/UH72A_UH72B-together-225x150.jpg)
The UH-72 Lakota is the Army’s third largest fleet. Larger than the Chinook fleet and 75 percent the size of the Apache fleet, here’s how commercial practices make a difference in sustaining the fleet and enabling Army readiness.
By Breaking Defense![Today’s indispensable tool for the Army and Marines is radar for C-UAS and C-RAM](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2023/08/US-Marines-and-Sailors-conduct-strait-transit-and-defense-of-the-amphibious-task-force-DATF-drill-aboard-the-Wasp-Class-Amphibious-Assault-Ship-USS-Bataan.-Copy-225x150.jpg)
Leonardo DRS’ radars are the system-of-choice for the Army’s Mobile Short-Range Air Defense (M-SHORAD) and USMC’s Marine Air Defense Integrated System (MADIS).
By Breaking Defense![Breaking OEM vendor lock with technical data packages the DoD owns for aircraft mods against new threats](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2023/05/SNC-has-built-one-or-two-hangars-every-year-for-about-15-years-in-multiple-locations-including-this-first-of-two-new-hangars-in-Dayton-OH.-225x150.jpg)
Using leading edge technology and tools to generate digital data packages in lieu of proprietary OEM data, SNC is on track to be the first to offer true digital twins in a post-production environment.
By Breaking Defense![Rad-hard: one company is keeping space systems operating years beyond expected lifetimes](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2023/04/Space-Satellite-1-225x150.jpg)
BAE Systems sees two significant trends in radiation-hardened and tolerant solutions in space, and they’re the opposite of each other.
By Breaking Defense![The latest counter-UAS system targets drones with dual-defeat kinetics and EW](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2023/04/Leonardo-DRS-is-the-lead-integrator-for-the-US-Armys-on-going-Mobile-Low-Slow-Small-Unmanned-Aircraft-System-Integrated-Defeat-System-M-LIDS-program.-225x150.jpg)
M-LIDS sensors and effectors are currently employed on two M-ATVs; Leonardo DRS leads an integration effort to consolidate the capability onto one Stryker.
By Breaking Defense![Operations in contested environments demand collaborative autonomy between crewed and uncrewed aircraft](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2023/03/M437-UAV_2021_0823_Approved-225x150.jpg)
To remove the human from the loop in uncrewed operations, the AI must be trusted to take specific actions every time certain scenarios happen based on its programming.
By Breaking Defense![Providing essential and assured PNT to every tactical vehicle is AC²ES (aces)](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2022/08/LDRS-Pathfinder-Featured-Image-2-225x150.png)
With the Army’s A-PNT program of record currently targeted at only a fraction of tactical vehicles, an affordable interim solution is available to face this threat.
By Breaking Defense![Bell’s V-280 VALOR is the standalone choice for FLRAA](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2022/10/The-V-280-tiltrotors-speed-is-truly-remarkable.-By-comparison-the-demonstrated-top-speed-is-almost-60-knots-faster-than-any-competing-technology.-1-225x150.jpg)
To deter the threat from near-peer competitors, the Army’s air assault mission demands a revolution in capability that only a tiltrotor can provide — not just a faster helicopter.
By Breaking Defense![Multi-domain operations demand multifunction sensors](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2022/05/22-0166_APPROVED_FINAL_Digital-Shadow-Final-scaled-225x150.jpg)
Emerging threats and complex challenges to situational awareness require a next generation of sensor systems.
By Breaking Defense![New tools for electronic warfare: multispectral operations and mission-adapting sensors](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2022/04/Distributed-mission-systems-graphic-provided-by-Northrop-Grumman.-225x150.jpg)
Multispectral operations are the response to a dynamic world where hostile nations have well known and advanced capabilities in EW and cyber.
By Breaking Defense![Electrification sparks new shipbuilding](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2022/03/The-Columbia-class-ballistic-missile-submarine-shown-in-an-artists-conception-will-have-an-electric-drive-power-propulsion-system-developed-by-Leonardo-DRS.-scaled-225x150.jpg)
Building naval vessels with electric propulsion is a new challenge for shipyards, so “single-system vendors” will be needed to provide the electric propulsion package as a subcontractor to the shipyard.
By Breaking Defense