Weekly Briefing: Air Warfare News and Analysis

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B-52 Could Get New Hypersonic Missile: Global Strike Commander "Certainly, we're in the in the conversation for the HACM as that gets developed," Global Strike Command head Gen. Timothy Ray said.

Lockheed To Use UAE-designed AI For All Aircraft "As the work progressed, we were able to digitize the time-consuming process of inspecting aircraft manually and delivered a real-world solution that drives significant time and cost savings as a result," Hala Alzargani, with Lockheed Martin, explained.

F-35 In Crosshairs As Joint Staff Assess TacAir Buys For Biden Budget At the moment, there are no plans to reduce the Air Force's plans to buy 1,763 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, says acting Air Force acquisition head Darlene Costello. But…

AFRL Pushes Laser "SHiELD" Flight Test Back, Again CSIS's Todd Harrison said he believes that  the "many challenges" to the SHiELD concept can be overcome "with time and money" —  and could well be worth expending because of the potential benefits.

AMC Approves 'Limited' KC-46 Tanker Refueling "I am confident that accepting the KC-46 with known deficiencies offers the fastest route to fielding a fully operationally capable weapon system," she said. "That said, serious deficiencies and restrictions remain," Air Mobility Command head Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost told reporters.

Air Force Working To Minimize Damage From ABMS Budget Cut "We're doing everything in our power to keep efforts going, because we believe … it's the right way to help design our future force,"acting Air Force acquisition head Darlene Costello says.

China, UAE Forge New Deals; Joint R&D Plan & New Drone Sales This comes in light of a relatively new Emirati-Chinese strategy to work on long-term development and research projects for unmanned systems. Directly in front of UAE's EDGE Group stand, was the China-Emirates Science and Technology innovation laboratory (CEST), a joint project between UAE's International Golden Group and Norinco.

Working With Hill Key To 'Accelerating Change:' CSAF Brown "It may not get to exactly what I want, but it'll be better than to get nothing that I want," Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown says of his recent talks with Congress about the service's budget plans.

CJCS Gen. Milley Reviews JADC2 Strategy While Industry Jostles For Position Digital engineering. Open software standards. Edge processing. Connectivity. Autonomy. DevSecOps. The buzzwords are flying as defense contractors jockey to tout their respective capabilities as DoD's plans for Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) begin to manifest — and new business opportunities.

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IDEX: Low-Key US Presence Opens Doors For Israel, China While the UAE government was silent on the Biden Administration's pause on arms sales, social media reaction was harsh.

UAE's Tawazun, MBDA To Develop SmartGlider Missiles "Selling is no longer the expectation of our customer, but instead working together locally to share technology and engage in a journey where we will sale to the export market," Patrice Hajjar, MBDA's Export Vice President for Mideast tells Breaking Defense.

Boeing, Navy Discuss T-7A As Goshawk Replacement The Navy has "no program of record right now" to replace its T-45 trainers, said Chuck Dabundo, Boeing VP for T-7 programs, but the company is "working closely with them in answering questions" about the T-7A Red Hawk's capabilities.

Army AI Gets Live Fire Test Next Week In an unusual bottom-up initiative, the 18th Airborne Corps is developing its own AI targeting system – and the corps' fire support coordinator says he wouldn't go to war without it.

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