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DoD Estimates New Missile Defense Program To Cost $17.7B NGI kicked off in 2019 after the cancellation of an earlier $5.8 billion plan to replace the existing Exo-Atmospheric Kill Vehicle, which defends the US mainland against long-range ballistic missile attacks.

Army: We Can't Meet Joint Needs With Smaller Budget Recent gains in readiness and modernization are fragile, Army leaders warned, and budget cuts would undermine the service's ability to help the Joint Force.

'Mandatory' Cyber Info Sharing Bill Coming, Says Senate Intel Chair Warner "My hope is that we can create this structure… to get an early warning system," the Senate Intel Committee chair said. "Voluntary sharing is no longer effective."

Biden Nominates Shyu To Lead Weapons Transformation If confirmed, Shyu and Brown will come into the Pentagon in the midst of what civilian leaders promise is a major shift: divesting old, Cold War-era equipment for new generations of AI-enabled weapons, unmanned systems, and hypersonic missiles.

Russian Fleet Protects Iranian Ships Smuggling Arms, Israelis Say TEL AVIV: Amid confused reports of a drone attack on an Iranian ship in the Mediterranean on its way to Syria, Iran appears to have moved its weapons shipments to Syria and Lebanon from the land — where Israel has regularly tracked and destroyed them — to ships that may be receiving protection from Russian…

SecAF Nominee Kendall Expected To Deep Dive On Space Acquisition UPDATED: To add comment from former SecAF Heather Wilson and HASC Chair Adam Smith. WASHINGTON: Frank Kendall has a reputation as a tough nut — having wrestled to the ground any number of messy DoD programs when he led the Obama Pentagon's acquisition shop —  including the troubled OCX operating system for GPS, and the…

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France And EU Launch Strategic Reviews: China As 'Systemic' Rival How to deal with the Chinese threat will probably be one of the most difficult questions for the European Union to address as it executes its first-ever strategic review, to be published in 2022 and called ''Strategic Compass.'

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