Some Democrats Sour On F-35 Sale To UAE

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Some Democrats Sour On F-35 Sale To UAE "The Trump Administration has made it clear that they'll put lethal weaponry in just about anyone's hands without regard to potential loss of life so long as the check clears," Rep. Eliot Engel says.

China Set To Beat US, Russia Again In Space Launch Race China has launched 29 satellites through Sept. 30, compared 27 launched by the US. The US has far more satellites already in space.

New North Korea ICBM Looks Bigger, But… This new missile — if it's real — does not change the current threat or defense calculus.

DEOS: 'No One Looks Like Real Winners' In Re-Award To GDIT Like JEDI, DEOS is a multi-billion dollar cloud program held up for months by protests from losing bidders. This morning, the Pentagon reaffirmed General Dynamics as the winner, but cut the contract's estimated value nearly in half.

Why Those 780 Top National Security Leaders Support Biden Speaking publicly and in alarming terms about a partisan political issue does not come naturally to retired generals and former senior national security leaders. These public servants, many of them wartime commanders and leaders, are not given to histrionics or hyperbole. So when hundreds (it's now up to 780)  of national security leaders – including 22 retired…

North Korea's Hackers Target Tech Secrets The alert "should raise concern for those simply focused on China or Russia as the core threat to our national security," says Eric Noonan, CEO of security firm CyberSheath.

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[Breaking] China Set To Beat US, Russia Again In Space Launch Race

China has launched 29 satellites through Sept. 30, compared 27 launched by the US. The US has far more satellites already in space.

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Sensor Trend: UAS Adopting WAMI Systems

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Though common on UAS, narrow-field FMV cameras have trouble finding and following dispersed targets over large areas. That's why platform providers are adopting wide-area motion imagery sensors for a variety of mission sets.  Learn more.

AFRL Moves To Equip Cargo Planes With Bombs In a Box WASHINGTON: With its latest contract to Lockheed Martin, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has taken another step in its effort to rapidly develop a capability to drop bombs and launch cruise missiles to augment the shrinking fleet of long-range bombers.  The Other Transaction Authority (OTA) contract, announced yesterday and worth $25 million over 18…

Aging Air Force IT 'Biggest Challenge' To JADC2 Progress "Our ability to get out from underneath our infrastructure is probably our biggest challenge," Lt. Gen. Tim Haugh, head of 16th Air Force, says.

Fixing Space Acquisition Air Force's 'Harshest Fight:' AFSec Barrett "I'd like to say that we've got that resolved, but it's not nearly resolved," Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett said of space acquisition.

DARPA AI Builds New Networks On The Fly Military hierarchies are, by necessity, rigid structures. DARPA's 'Mosaic Warfare' project aims for something much more fluid and adaptable, with AI doing the logistical grunt work so human commanders can get creative.

JADC2 'On The Right Track,' Says NORTHCOM's VanHerck "I'm optimistic as a department that we're moving in the right direction," says Gen. Glen VanHerck on JADC2 development.

Data Sharing Hurdles Stymie JADC2: CSAF Brown "We're not trying to fight for each other's money," says Gen. Charles Brown.

Israel To Get Direct Access To SBIRS Sats & More F-35 Capabilities; Esper Visiting TEL AVIV: The United States, pressed by Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz In Washington last week, will grant Israel direct access to highly classified satellites such as the missile detection birds known as SBIRS and ensure Israel gets critical defense platforms in a very short time by using production slots planned for the U.S armed forces.…

Israel-UAE Normalization Takes Big Leaps; Process Remains Fragile As the UAE and Israel make big progress in normalizing relations, analysts warn of actions that include obstructing the sale of the F-35 fighters to the UAE, that could derail the entire Abraham Accords, which might change the region's political landscape

DoD Kicks Off New Hypersonic Program; F-18 To Get Hypersonic Cruise Missile The Pentagon will retain strict security protocols to ensure "we're not training Chinese scientists that are going to go help their programs" said Gillian Bussey, head of the Joint Hypersonic Transition Office

Air Force To Try Space-Based 3D Printing: Roper The US, Russia and China all could be building things in space within 15 years, an IDA study found.

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AFRL Moves To Equip Cargo Planes With Bombs In a Box

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AFRL Moves To Equip Cargo Planes With Bombs In a Box WASHINGTON: With its latest contract to Lockheed Martin, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has taken another step in its effort to rapidly develop a capability to drop bombs and launch cruise missiles to augment the shrinking fleet of long-range bombers.  The Other Transaction Authority (OTA) contract, announced yesterday and worth $25 million over 18…

Dems Likely To War Over Defense After Election; Navy A Big Target: HASC Chair Smith Smith sees a blue wave as exposing fissures within the party over "how much do you spend on defense, and what does your presence in the world look like," Smith said, noting that progressives are skeptical about defense spending and overseas deployments

Pentagon Unveils Spectrum Strategy; Five Eyes Talking Military technology often lags so far behind Silicon Valley, one defense official says, that much of the Pentagon is "in the Fred Flintstone era," while the cutting edge is, "past the Jetsons."

BD Checks Out Army's Robotic Gun: ATLAS The Army will soon hold live-fire tests of an AI that can algorithmically spot targets and aim at them — but a human still has to pull the trigger. Will ATLAS let future tanks fight better with smaller crews?

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Trump Admin Sets Allied Defense Spending Targets, Taiwan Deals Lead Way "If anything, the provocations are coming from Beijing. The bullying behavior…is where the provocateurs lie, not with Taiwan [which is] maintaining its own self defense," a top State Department official says.

Buy American Earmarks Slip In: Defense Committees Must Act Almost ten years ago, Congress tried — after much self-flagellation — to do away with earmarks by declaring a moratorium on their use. An earmark was defined in House and Senate rules as any congressionally directed spending, tax advantage or tariff that would benefit an entity or a specific state, locality or congressional district. Members at the…

NSA O'Brien's Latest Audible on Navy Plans: Calls For More Frigates, Faster It's unclear if Robert O'Brien's calls for hypersonic missiles on destroyers and building more frigates indicate he is inserting himself in Pentagon budget planning.

As US Military Moves Into Palau, China Watches Intently In a recent meeting between the Navy Secretary and the president of Palau, the US signaled a commitment to "enhanced presence here and for more US Military activity in the future."

Signaling China, White House Floats Putting Hypersonic Missiles On Destroyers "This is a terrible idea for several reasons," Bryan Clark of the Hudson Institute said. The oldest ships would need to undergo a service life extension, while the newer ships would have to undergo expensive upgrades for a complex new mission.

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