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General Electric Bests Pratt & Whitney In $1.6B F-15EX Engine Competition General Electric, which produced the GE F110-129 engines for the first lot of eight F-15EX aircraft, will continue manufacturing the propulsion system for the rest of the program of record.

Oshkosh Expects Lower Defense Revenue As JLTV Buying Slows Company executives said that JLTV program is a good "base" for Oshkosh to win "adjacent" vehicle contracts.

NSA Should 'Reevaluate' Massive IC Cloud Contract: GAO The GAO decision sustained a protest from Microsoft, saying the agency's evaluation was partly "unreasonable."

Space Force Plans Up To $2.3B In COMSATCOM Contracts The planned buy with the largest potential value is for DoD-wide SATCOM services from commercial operators of p-LEO constellations, with multiple awards totaling $875 million slated in August 2022.

Defense Companies Brace For Workforce Loss Due To Vaccine Mandate Companies like Raytheon and Northrop Grumman have already increased hiring, anticipating a reduction in its workforce due to the coronavirus vaccine mandate.

Some Advice For Companies Seeking European Defense Fund Money Maj. Donatas Palavenis of Lithuania lays out an analysis for what makes an EDF pitch successful.

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No Time To Go Wobbly On Hypersonics It's worth recalling just why the United States is now vigorously pursuing hypersonic weaponization with a sense of urgency. A clue: it isn't because hypersonic zealots just "got their way."

T-X: The Sequel? New Tactical Trainer Solicitation Could Reignite Rivalries "Every day, [the T-38]  becomes just another step more disconnected from the advanced avionics, advanced sensing, the advanced processing that our modern fighters have. And so we can't fill that void fast enough," said Air Combat Command head Gen. Mark Kelly.

Turkey's Fighter Flirtation With Russia: Is it Serious? Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has already requested a series of F-16 upgrades from the US, but may be using Russia for political leverage.

Lockheed's Acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne Delayed "The Aerojet Rocketdyne transaction continues moving through the regulatory approval process, and we now anticipate closing in the first quarter of 2022," said Lockheed CEO James Taiclet.

If The Air Force Buys The E-7A Wedgetail, What's Next? As the service works to procure the required number of E-7As as quickly as possible, it should simultaneously implement a comprehensive plan to expedite the training of US Air Force pilots and air battle management crews.

The F-35 At 20: How Its Successes, And Failures, Shaped The Aerospace Industry The takeaway from the last 20 years, according to aerospace analyst Richard Aboulafia, might well be, "You succeeded, but please don't try that again."

Strykers To Get New Counter-Drone Tech With General Dynamics, Epirus Partnership The partnership will initially integrate onto Strykers, but as has an eye on future autonomous platforms.

LMXT By Lockheed Martin: America's Next Strategic Tanker [Sponsored] Offered in response to the Air Force's KC-Y Program, Lockheed Martin's American-built LMXT offers impressive capabilities and proven track-record.

Time To Wedge The E-7A Wedgetail Into The US Air Force Fleet Some might argue that the Air Force should transition directly from the E-3 to an unmanned airborne early warning and control capability instead of acquiring the E-7. There are several problems with that approach.

From Lease To Own: Marines Get Two MQ-9 Reapers Of Their Own Taking possession of two MQ-9A is a significant mile marker in the Marine Corps' efforts to establish its No. 2 acquisition priority, MUX.

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‘Hundreds’ Of China Hypersonic Tests Vs. 9 US; Hyten Says US Moves Too Slowly

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'Hundreds' Of China Hypersonic Tests Vs. 9 US; Hyten Says US Moves Too Slowly Gen. Hyten said he's "probably" going to approve "today or tomorrow a new requirement for Integrated Air and Missile Defense," which is a pillar of the Joint Warfighting Concept (JWC).

SDA Scraps, Relaunches Data Transport Satellite Bidding After Protest SDA Director Derek Tournear told an industry audience today that proposals under the new OTA would be due the day before Thanksgiving. "You're welcome," he joked.

With Connecticut Stuck In Guam, Spotlight Is Back On Navy's Shipyard Plans "We've heard these are national treasures," Rep. John Garamendi said of the military's maintenance depots. "And yet, the … organic industrial base infrastructure is chronically underfunded to the point these facilities are relics of the past."

US Military 'Well Postured' For Any Chinese Cyber Onslaught, CIO Nominee Says Elsewhere in the hearing John Sherman called attention to a growing concern at the Pentagon over the radio spectrum, saying "spectrum sharing" should be a DoD watchword.

No Time To Go Wobbly On Hypersonics It's worth recalling just why the United States is now vigorously pursuing hypersonic weaponization with a sense of urgency. A clue: it isn't because hypersonic zealots just "got their way."

US, China, Russia Test New Space War Tactics: Sats Buzzing, Spoofing, Spying Models shared exclusively with Breaking Defense offer a rare glimpse into nation-on-nation run-ins in space as satellites follow, flee, and, allegedly, listen in on each other.

Has Space Force Helped Improve Space Acquisition? Survey Respondents Are Split While almost 20% of overall respondents believe that the Space Force is not effective "at all" at improving space acquisition, there is a major split between views of DoD and industry; just 4% of DoD respondents said Space Force hasn't helped, while 23% of industry respondents held that view.

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Navy's Unmanned Ships Sail With US Ally In The Middle East New Horizon was the first exercise conducted by a Navy task force focused on unmanned in partnership with the Bahrain Defense Force.

From Lease To Own: Marines Get Two MQ-9 Reapers Of Their Own Taking possession of two MQ-9A is a significant mile marker in the Marine Corps' efforts to establish its No. 2 acquisition priority, MUX.

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EXCLUSIVE: US, China, Russia Test New Space War Tactics: Sats Buzzing, Spoofing, Spying

Models shared exclusively with Breaking Defense offer a rare glimpse into nation-on-nation run-ins in space as satellites follow, flee, and, allegedly, listen in on each other.

US, China, Russia Test New Space War Tactics: Sats Buzzing, Spoofing, Spying WASHINGTON: China has demonstrated the ability to track and maneuver a satellite with a remarkably high degree of precision, allowing the Chinese military to spot a US satellite moving close and then to redirect its own satellite away from the US bird in little more than 24 hours, according to never-before-seen video recreations. It is a rare glimpse into the often highly classified realm of nation-to-nation run-ins in space — and potential future space warfare tactics — made possible by COMSPOC, a company that provides space tracking and other information to private companies and governments. While the US military tracks objects in space, it restricts data about those with national security implications — especially US spy sats. COMSPOC provided several videos illustrating various interactions to Breaking Defense for this report. Read more » Breaking Defense 611 Broadway • New York, New York • 10012 unsubscribe