Weekly Briefing: Defense Networks & Cyber

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ABMS Grows Up: Air Force Shifts Focus To Delivering Kit A new pod-based comms system for the KC-46, enabling it to serve as a 'translator' for the incompatible radio systems of the F-22 and F-35, will be fielded in the last quarter of fiscal 2022.

Space Organizations Partner To Boost Cybersecurity "We don't have a parochial view, thinking that because [a cyber incident] happened over there [in that industry], it can't happen here [in the space industry]," AIAA's Lee says.

Exclusive: DARPA 'Likely' To Demo Only 2 Blackjack Payloads "We really focused on payloads that had tactical utility, because they were an underserved market," said Blackjack program manager Stephen Forbes.

Paratroopers Pioneer New Army Network, Tactics New radios offer dramatically greater range, clarity, & data — once soldiers and leaders figure out how best to use them.

SOCOM Leaders Say 'Digital Spectrum' Key To Next Fight "The future will be won by those who dominate the full digital spectrum,"  Lt. Gen. Francis Beaudette, commander of Army Special Operations Command, says. "It will be as important as seizing and holding terrain."

Hill Presses For Better Cyber Responses, More Info Sharing Colonial Pipeline "refused" to share details of ransomware payment with Congress. "Our constituents are on the front lines of these [cyber]attacks, and yet they don't know what their country is doing to respond," Rep. Slotkin said.

Special Ops Undergoing Historic Transformation, AFSOC Says "The SOF that we have is not the SOF we will need" for the future, head of Air Force Special Ops Command, Lt. Gen. James Slife, warned today.

Army Cyber Pivots To Pacific: Fogarty "Wherever [Army forces] are deployed, particularly those in Europe and the Pacific, they're under just constant, constant assault," Lt. Gen. Stephen Fogarty, chief of Army Cyber Command, says.

Egyptian Deal For Rafale Fighters Boosts Data Sharing Egyptian sources tell Breaking Defense that this may not be the last Rafale purchase. Egypt is now eying the Rafale F4. "We are looking to increase the (overall) number to 72 or 100 units, depending on Egypt's financial capacity."

How China's Thinking About The Next War The PLA Navy (PLAN) and PLA Air Force (PLAAF) are now the world's largest, but China's military modernization is not only focused on equipment. The PRC appears to be  developing new strategies and doctrines. The PLA began shifting in the 1990s from preparing to fight "local wars under modern, high-tech conditions" to "local wars under…

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