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Navy orders safety stand down after finding sub leaders 'fell short' of navigation standards A top Navy submariner said the safety investigation into the Connecticut incident is nearing completion.

COVID supply chain woes add yearlong delay to first F-16 rollout at new facility The first F-16 produced in Greenville, S.C., won't be ready to begin flying until late 2022, said Greg Ulmer, Lockheed's vice president of aeronautics.

Hypersonic spy planes and cargo transports? Pentagon is interested You can imagine a reusable system that can fly around and drop payloads and come back, or a hypersonic system that can carry other hypersonic systems," said Gillian Bussey, head of DoD's Joint Hypersonics Transition Office.

DIA details push to modernize top-secret network amid 150% uptick in cyber threats "I hear more about IT revolution than evolution these days, but I think IT is more evolution," DIA CIO Doug Cossa said.

Aussie PM targets quantum tech, announces 'critical technologies' push Australia's ambassador to the US, Arthur Sinodinos, confirmed unequivocally that the "mature" submarines his country will buy will use highly enriched uranium: "The subs would be using HEU, and we're just working out now the arrangements what that will mean in practice."

At Project Convergence, Army 'struggling' to see joint battlefield as it heeds 'hard' lessons Where success meant identifying failures, top Army officials said desert experiment revealed problems in "situational awareness" that will be critical in future fights.

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