“By bringing this state-of-the-art manufacturing line to the US, we will be able to provide the US Army with a domestic source of triple-base propellant,” Hanwha ammo plant manager Lee Woo Jin told reporters.
While the National Security Strategy has a strong focus on the Western Hemisphere, the undersecretary for research and engineering said, "I am focused much more on other parts of the world.”
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The company also announced a "factories-as-a-service" offering "primarily where the program itself is a real manufacturing challenge to scale up, [or] where there’s super scarce workforce needs,” said Hadrian founder and CEO Chris Power.
Even just "mapping the supply chain is hard stuff," said Reza Nikfarjam, deputy director of the Credit Program at the Pentagon's Office of Strategic Capital (OSC).
The incoming Trump administration will be facing a pacing threat from Beijing. In order to secure supply chains and national security, the administration will have to find ways to rely less on China.
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Technology insertion into legacy platforms and electronics requires creativity in designing computer systems that can communicate with them.
Derek Tournear said he's concerned about cybersecurity and supply chain, and especially where they overlap: foreign-written software.
The systems may be off-the-shelf, but the packaging for integration on vehicles and ships provides cradle-to-grave resiliency.
"With regards to the election, we think that deterrence and deterrence capabilities are an enduring theme, regardless of which party is in the executive branch or who's in control of Congress," said Lockheed Martin COO Frank St. John.
The network transport architecture for NGC2 could be a hybrid approach that combines high assurance communications with 5G, WiFi, and multi-orbit satellites.
Hadrian CEO and founder Chris Power told Breaking Defense he envisions the company building “10 to 20 mega factories in all of the core manufacturing space in the country,” producing parts for “all the primes and neo-primes."
“I am personally no longer interested in hearing about COVID. That time is over, okay? It is time to deliver and produce and meet the commitment,” Brig. Gen. Michael Lalor said at GVSETS 2024.
"It is well past time for DoD to stop treating AI like it is just a science project," Govini CEO Tara Murphy Dougherty said.
In this op-ed, retired Maj. Gen. James Marks discusses the importance of domestic nitrocellulose production to keep up with America's needs.