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Drone Refuels Manned Aircraft For First Time: Navy The Navy's MQ-25 Stingray prototype successfully refueled a Navy Super Hornet fighter in mid-air during a Friday test. The post Drone Refuels Manned Aircraft For First Time: Navy appeared first on Breaking Defense.

AFMC Plans '23 Push For Digital Design "Let me be really clear here, because I'm not giving you a budget number does not mean we are not doing anything," said Gen. Arnold Bunch, Air Force Materiel Command head. The post AFMC Plans '23 Push For Digital Design appeared first on Breaking Defense.

SecDef OKs JADC2 Strategy: Now OSD Has 'Teeth' WASHINGTON: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has signed the strategy guiding the massive effort to knit troopers on the front lines to F-35s, submarines, satellites, ships and commanders across the globe, known as Joint All Domain Command and Control. The approval by Austin "brings order to our efforts in the command and control arena" Marine Corps… The post SecDef OKs JADC2 Strategy: Now OSD Has 'Teeth' appeared first on Breaking Defense.

DoD Seeks $2.3B To Bolster US Chip Making "From the DoD's perspective, they're highly dependent on [Asia] for fabrication and packaging [of chips]," Hudson Institute's Bryan Clark tells Breaking Defense. This has led to DoD calls to address a "fragile and threatened" chip supply chain. The post DoD Seeks $2.3B To Bolster US Chip Making appeared first on Breaking Defense.

Destroyer, JADC2 Top Navy Unfunded Requirements The Navy also asks for five additional F-35C fighters, an E-2D Hawkeye and 4 CMV-22s. The post Destroyer, JADC2 Top Navy Unfunded Requirements appeared first on Breaking Defense.

JROC Tags Space Force To Make Satellites Link With JADC2 The JROC has tagged the Space Force "officially and formally as the integrator for all joint space requirements," says vice chief Gen. DT Thompson. The post JROC Tags Space Force To Make Satellites Link With JADC2 appeared first on Breaking Defense.

US, France, UK Hammer Out Multinational Corps Warfighting There is room for further development in areas such as electronic warfare and signals intelligence. "These 'soft' components were not as accessible in the past 12 to 15 years when we were so busy in the Middle-East; for example, there is a real drive to invest in areas such as EWSI (Electronic Warfare and Signals Intelligence)," Brig. Gen. Paul Tennant, the British military attache in Washington, says. The post US, France, UK Hammer Out Multinational Corps Warfighting appeared first on Breaking Defense.

Army Network Gets Most 2022 Modernization $ Some $2.7 billion goes to network upgrades, more than any other Army priority area, according to acting acquisition chief Doug Bush. The post Army Network Gets Most 2022 Modernization $ appeared first on Breaking Defense.

DoD Budget Appears To Cut Cyber Offense, Beef Up Defenses The single biggest reduction in proposed year-over-year cyber funding appears to be in overseas "hunt-forward" cyber operations, with a $284.4 million cut to $147.2 million in 2022 versus a requested $431.6 million last year. The post DoD Budget Appears To Cut Cyber Offense, Beef Up Defenses appeared first on Breaking Defense.

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