The transition, as well as the election of Fran Townsend as the chair of the board, will happen on Jan. 1, according to a statement.| Breaking Defense
This announcement is “transformational for us,” Saildrone CEO Richard Jenkins told Breaking Defense in an interview today.| Breaking Defense
DoD labs are stress-testing anti-jam systems so warfighters can command and control in the face of EW.| Breaking Defense
Emerging technologies will allow forces to operate faster in the enemy’s decision cycle.| Breaking Defense
The Army has “evolved” its networks to better support US Northern Command in ways that it sees as a model for other theaters worldwide, CDAO David Markowitz told Breaking Defense.| Breaking Defense
“Due to the federal budget issues and resultant government shutdown, many of the key speakers who are either active-duty military personnel or civilian government employees are unable to attend the in-person Annual Symposium & Industry Update (ASIU),” according to an email from the Naval Submarine League.| Breaking Defense
Trick-or-treat: The Breaking Defense team talks about something truly scary — which Pentagon programs have been killed this year, and some that have come back to life.| Breaking Defense
“Successful tests conducted on the frigate SACHSEN proved the demonstrator’s tracking capability, effectiveness and precision under real operational conditions for the first time in Europe,” the announcement says.| Breaking Defense
“This marks the beginning of deeper collaboration between not only our companies, but each of our countries, that will support enduring changes to military and commercial shipbuilding in America,” HII executive Eric Chewning said in the announcement.| Breaking Defense
Convergence of offensive and defensive cyber is reshaping how they’re developed, fielded, and integrated.| Breaking Defense
“This landmark agreement with Türkiye is a win for British workers, a win for our defence industry, and a win for NATO security,” British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said.| Breaking Defense
Sen. Slotkin’s experience in national security complements her responsibility as ranking member of the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities.| Breaking Defense
Breaking Defense’s Agnes Helou walks you through the latest headlines from the region in this month’s edition of the Middle East Defense Digest.| Breaking Defense
“Maintaining the current smorgasbord of foreign suppliers is already difficult, and adding another country to the frontline mix means a logistician’s nightmare,” one analyst told Breaking Defense.| Breaking Defense
“The Chinese currently have pure economic interests in the region, especially the oil, and are happy to see the US spend plenty of resources in ensuring the security of the region and the safety of its waterways that allow the flow of oil from the region and Chinese products to the Middle East," one expert told Breaking Defense.| Breaking Defense
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Artificial intelligence, autonomy, and local innovation will take center stage.| Breaking Defense
“While envisioned as a primary munition for CAML, Blackbeard GL is designed to be compatible with existing HIMARS platforms as an interim solution,” the Army’s fiscal 2026 budget said.| Breaking Defense
“If the mil-to-mil relationship can be salvaged and can be kept, that’s worthwhile and that’s meritorious,” Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart told Breaking Defense.| Breaking Defense
The Army is giving corps commanders the ability to control their own terrain in cyberspace, much like in their physical battlespace.| Breaking Defense
“But in the end Ukraine will have a dramatically improved level of air power projection — the likes of which the no one had seen in this part of the world before,” said a Ukrainian defense enterprise executive.| Breaking Defense
The Defense Command specifically recommended that “resources for the possible implementation of Barak MX should be used on other initiatives with greater immediate combat power.”| Breaking Defense
Out of 2,077 active requirements, Army senior leaders have identified 516 for inactivation, according to new figures provided to Breaking Defense.| Breaking Defense
The Pentagon is changing how it communicates with Congress, and Valerie Insinna is here to walk you through what you need to know.| Breaking Defense
The document, dated Oct. 20, and marked as controlled unclassified information, sheds additional light onto the Army’s plans to host a new competition.| Breaking Defense
“It is necessary to increase Estonia’s deep-strike capability with additional rocket launchers,” Estonia Minister of Defence Hanno Pevkur said in a press release.| Breaking Defense
“Project Bromo is a sovereignty play,” Caleb Henry, research director at Quilty Space, told Breaking Defense.| Breaking Defense
The long term defense readiness project also calls for 40 percent, at minimum, of European Union defense acquisitions to be carried out on a joint procurement basis by the close of 2027.| Breaking Defense
Robbin Laird visited Italy’s International Flight Training School in Sardinia at Decimomannu Airbase to see how it approaches training aviators for modern combat.| Breaking Defense
Stakes in the joint entity, planned to be operational from 2027 once regulatory approval is secured, are split with Airbus retaining a majority of 35 percent, while Leonardo and Thales will each be allocated 32.5 percent stakes.| Breaking Defense
Kelly chairs a subcommittee that’s responsible for Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps acquisition programs.| Breaking Defense
Now available for “fair market value” are over 3,000 acres of land on five Air Force bases, two-thirds of it at Edwards AFB alone.| Breaking Defense
Yoav Tourgeman, the CEO and president of Rafael, told Breaking Defense that he's not concerned about sales to Europe being heavily impacted by politics.| Breaking Defense
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"When you see it, I believe that you'll probably think to yourself, 'Holy s--, that thing is f--- cool,'" said Shield AI President and Co-founder Brandon Tseng at a Tuesday event.| Breaking Defense
Open architectures promise to break vendor lock and speed electronic warfare for UAS, missiles, and loitering munitions.| Breaking Defense
DoD's John Noh appeared before lawmakers, as they voiced concerns over America's Indo-Pacific stance.| Breaking Defense
“While there is some risk and mixed signals from the Trump [administration], especially on the issue of US willingness to transfer Virginia-class subs to Australia, there is a potential upside if this review drives a more coherent US approach and cost/benefit approach towards AUKUS," analyst Euan Graham told Breaking Defense.| Breaking Defense
AI analysis of sensor data, including new kinds of quantum-based detection, could give a lethal edge in undersea warfare — to either the Australia-UK-US alliance or to China.| Breaking Defense
Vice Adm. Bill Houston said the sales of in-service Virginia-class subs will be in 2032, 2035 and a newly produced sub in 2038.| Breaking Defense
Navy Secretary John Phelan said the ongoing review is designed to make the original deal “better," to clear up some of the “ambiguity” and be a “win-win for everybody.”| Breaking Defense
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Most recently Ingraham was performing the duties of Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for acquisition and sustainment.| Breaking Defense
"All of these parochial interests and all of these lobbyists that crawl around this building and crawl around Congress, they have succeeded for far too long, and so the first thing is, we are going to start to cut the things we don't want or need," Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll told reporters.| Breaking Defense
Brent Ingraham told Breaking Defense that the service’s ongoing Transformation in Contact exercises will help inform leadership on what weapons and platforms it will and won’t go forward with as part of the ATI.| Breaking Defense
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At Paris Air Show, US executives said they see multiple paths for enlarging their share of the European defense market, including coproduction deals, mergers and acquisitions, and the creation of European-based subsidiaries.| Breaking Defense
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Six companies have already signed up for a new flight-test program to mature their autonomy software.| Breaking Defense
Congress has an opportunity this fall to clarify the purpose of the Small Business Innovation Research effort, write Jon Chung and Dan Berkenstock.| Breaking Defense
Senate lawmakers are at an impasse over DoD's Small Business Innovation Research program, a key seed funding initiative.| Breaking Defense
"[O]n the ops floor, [ATLAS is] generating a catalog — it's publishing data to Space-track.org They're using that as a primary system," Space Systems Command's Shannon Pallone said in an exclusive interview.| Breaking Defense
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The department’s 'highest priorities' will revolve around operations securing the US Southern border, operations in the Middle East, designing Golden Dome, depot maintenance, shipbuilding and critical munitions, according to the guidance.| Breaking Defense
The Space Force's Delta 3 is responsible for organizing, training and equipping Guardians for electronic warfare missions involving satellite communications, as well as sustaining related offensive and defensive EW systems.| Breaking Defense
Blending superior optics, advanced stabilization and AI-powered autonomy in a compact and rugged system, ASELFLIR 600 delivers unmatched intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities.| Breaking Defense
The Navy's top officer hit industry on Monday for lobbying for "aircraft we don't need."| Breaking Defense
"We shouldn’t have to stand for this," former Navy Secretary Richard Spencer says of industry cost overruns.| Breaking Defense
A senior naval aviation officer says a change to the F-35C squadrons, additional reserve aircraft from other services and a successful maintenance program will be key to resolving the longstanding shortfall.| Breaking Defense
Once touted by President Trump himself as an alternative to the F-35, the souped-up Super Hornet is now firmly established as its partner.| Breaking Defense
"We're not the only target that damn communists are trying to overcome,” Col. Gary Kipe said Wednesday. “They're trying to overcome freedom loving people around the world, and all of us are using the same data.”| Breaking Defense
The money is divided into two pots for the Coast Guard: $4.3 billion for the larger Polar Security Cutters and nearly $5 billion for medium-sized Arctic Security Cutters.| Breaking Defense
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Evolved from JAIC’s controversial Project Maven, Palantir’s Maven Smart System pulls together data from satellites, social media and other disparate sources for military commanders and planners.| Breaking Defense
Vice Adm. Robert Sharp, outgoing NGA director, said the fusion of Project Maven with his agency's current AI efforts will "give us our millions of eyes to see the unseen."| Breaking Defense
The agency's RFI seeks capabilities that can be deployed in "epochs" starting in 2026, and running in two year increments to "beyond" Dec. 31 2030.| Breaking Defense
In a new executive order, President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to move forward on missile defense, though the details are still thin.| Breaking Defense
The agencies said in their joint announcement that the "launch of the two prototype systems will be followed by two years of on-orbit testing."| Breaking Defense
SDA plans to purchase and deploy a minimum of 54 space vehicles equipped with infrared sensors from up to three vendors under the new solicitation for Tranche 2 of its Tracking Layer constellation.| Breaking Defense
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Consolidate network monitoring, performance management, and fault isolation into a single, comprehensive solution.| Breaking Defense
With a GOP-controlled House and a Democrat-controlled Senate, nothing in the bill is final until the last minute conference negotiations are completed, but here are the key issues to watch.| Breaking Defense
"I am concerned about the transition of HBTSS from the Missile Defense Agency to the Space Development Agency. The apparent shift in strategy to deploy this capability does not reflect the urgency of the hypersonic threats we face," Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., chairman of the House Armed Service's strategic forces subcommittee, told Breaking Defense.| Breaking Defense
The 10 satellites, which will be lofted on a reusable SpaceX Falcon 9 from Vandenberg SFB to low Earth orbit (LEO), are the first batch of the Tranche 0 constellation, building blocks of America's resilient space strategy.| Breaking Defense
“So you can have something that the chief wants that will solve the problem, but if you don't have a way to sell it in a way that the government can buy it – and then the challenge is not, you know, in many cases the buyer isn't the customer,” James Guerts said. “And so I think where the services are really working hard is to compress that so the buyer and the customer are more closely aligned."| Breaking Defense
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The inclusion of space-based interceptors is a particularly hard nut for Moscow to swallow, given long-standing Russian belief that such weapons are aimed at undercutting the country’s nuclear retaliatory capability following a US first strike.| Breaking Defense
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"While this type of close approach activity does not automatically signify a military mission, it obviously could provide a co-orbital counterspace capability," expert Victoria Samson told Breaking Defense.| Breaking Defense
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Michael Williamson, president of Lockheed Martin International, said non-operators of the F-35 have inquired about building "facilities and repair parts so another F-35 can land at their air bases, be repaired, and fly out.”| Breaking Defense
House lawmakers say they are "highly circumspect" of the Navy's analysis for closing the strike fighter shortfall.| Breaking Defense
The Army is looking for improved pilot training in its innovative Flight School Next initiative. The Navy advanced its rotary wing training with the TH-73, which may provide a proven roadmap.| Breaking Defense
"NGA Maven is now available to all services and all combatant commands. There are 20,000 active users through more than 35 service and combat and command tools across three security domains," said NGA Director Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth.| Breaking Defense
The SDA call for studies on speeding HBTSS "missile defense capabilities" is interesting, as its wording differs somewhat from language in an earlier solicitation from the Missile Defense Agency for proposals that appears to refer to an HBTSS satellite constellation.| Breaking Defense
The new "Fire-Control On Orbit-Support-To-The-War Fighter (FOO Fighter or F2)" program "will accelerate the ability to provide new fire control options for the tactical users," an SDA spokesperson told Breaking Defense. But how does it play with MDA programs?| Breaking Defense
"This is a critical step in delivering the capabilities we need, at the scale and speed we need, to continue securing a free and open Indo-Pacific" said Admiral Samuel Paparo, commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.| Breaking Defense
Northrop Grumman is one of the only companies with expertise and capability to design, build and operate systems across an array of orbits.| Breaking Defense
