Weekly Briefing: Naval Warfare

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Weekly Briefing Naval Warfare

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Allies and robots: Navy joins 60 nations in International Maritime Exercise This year's IMX will include a focus on how unmanned systems can change naval operations, from rescue operations to endurance missions.

French Navy chief on Ukraine, AUKUS and unmanned tech "On the naval side, we didn't see a very abnormal pattern of life of the Russians," French Navy chief Adm. Pierre Vandier said about Russian actions near Ukraine.

DARPA's 'ROCkN' laser-based clocks will know what time it really is, to the sub-picosecond Optical clocks in labs today "fill out a huge room, a big room with a very complex, very sophisticated apparatus that takes multiple PhDs to run," Tatjana Curcic, who manages DARPA's Robust Optical Clock Network project, told Breaking Defense.

New Pentagon report censors details on weapons programs' performance, flaws "By caving to pressure inside the Pentagon and hiding unclassified information behind a pseudo classification, the current leaders of DOT&E are undermining the effectiveness of their own agency," said Dan Grazier, a fellow with the Project on Government Oversight.

HII taps Chris Kastner to take the helm as president, CEO Mike Petters, the current CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries, will become executive vice chairman of the board.

Indonesia's $125B air, naval splurge may mean '50 warships' at sea in next 2 years Amidst incursions by China into Indonesia's Extended Economic Zone, Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto is looking for a major investment in military gear.

Getting lost: Yet more delays to Space Force protected GPS program Some services have turned to commercial solutions for receivers as delays mount, report says.

Navy's problems with the Zumwalt may be hurting its hypersonic weapon efforts The Pentagon's top weapons tester says the service has "limited flight test opportunities" to support putting a hypersonic weapon onboard the Zumwalt class.

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