After combat success, AFSOC wants new Leidos cruise missile on ‘every type’ of platform
The 200-pound class Havoc Spear has a range of over 400 nautical miles (460 miles), according to Leidos.
Army opens ranges in US, Morocco to speed interceptor testing, development
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll told reporters he hopes to get companies who have internally funded their own munitions onto testing ranges within 30 days of a request.
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In the age of drones, a bigger fence around your facility doesn’t protect you anymore
Traditional thinking about how to protect facilities must adapt to new threats such as drones or downstream attacks.
‘No decision’ yet on AFRICOM’s future, as terror groups become ‘more cohesive’: Official
A senior AFRICOM official told Breaking Defense the command is still looking to shore up ISR capabilities after the 2024 Niger exit.
Pentagon names its picks for chiefs of CENTCOM, AFRICOM, SOCOM
Vice Adm. Brad Cooper, who pushed for unmanned and AI integration at US Fifth Fleet, would take the helm of US Central Command, should he be confirmed.
Space Force chief: Commercial imagery analysis aided Niger withdrawal — just don’t call it ‘intel’
“This is about providing situational awareness [and] operational planning products,” Gen. Chance Saltzman told reporters as he talked up a pet program, TacSRT -- which some in the intelligence agencies say treads on their turf.
‘Matter of time’: AFRICOM puts counter-drone systems at top of $500M unfunded priorities list
After the counter-uncrewed systems, AFRICOM said it would spend another $228 million on "high-risk intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance" to shore up current "unacceptable risk" to US interests on the continent.
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Three exercises that pushed counter–UAS from prototype to proven
Architecture that linked sensors, C2, RF effects, and lasers into a distributed c-UAS kill chain.
Short on amphibs for Turkey, Sudan, the Marines grapple with crisis response ethos
"When things like Turkey or [Sudan] come up, and other aspects of the US Joint Force are responding, it’s uncomfortable because [the Marines] look at it as something that historically they have done," said one analyst.