Saturday, 31 July 2021
Friday, 30 July 2021
Weekly Briefing: Air Warfare
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Beyond ABMS: Air Force Pushes Experimental Tech For AI, IT, Data The expanded experimentation campaign is also building new "business approaches" — some of which will require Pentagon-level blessing — to speed software-based capabilities to the field, DAF Chief Architect Preston Dunlap said.
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Qatar's Massive Increase In Military Power Comes With Political, Logistical Headaches As Qatar awaits permission from Paris to base Rafales and Mirages in Turkey, it grapples with the challenge of finding manpower and training them to use dozens of planes it has purchased.
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Lawmakers Throw Wrench Into Air Force ISR Divestment Plan House authorizers threw shade at the service for not heeding long-standing warnings of the potential for a gap in tactical aircraft availability.
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Range, Speed, And Reaction Time At Operational Distances Will Define The Next Phase Of Army Aviation [Sponsored] Bell created the V-280 Valor with agility, speed in excess of 280 knots, and more than 500 nm of range that is needed to quickly take advantage of tactical opportunities in multi-domain operations in theaters across the globe.
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Air Force Plans Wargames, Tech Experiments To Flesh Out Arctic Strategy The Air Force is wargaming with allies on how to counter Russia and China in the Arctic, looking to "understand the nature of the competition, as well as the range of capabilities that each of us bring to the problem," said Lt. Gen. Clinton Hinote, the service's lead strategist.
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Israel Shifts To Standoff Weapons In Syria As Russian Threats Increase The change comes as Russia says it has stopped using a deconfliction line with Israel.
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Directed Energy: From Counter-Drone To Force Fields? "We're painting with broad strokes, but we're diving into what missions of the future will look like. The technology is not quite Star Wars, but we're getting close," said Jeremy Murray-Krezan, AFRL's directed energy deputy chief scientist, says.
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DoD's Technology Imperative: How Industry Is Answering DoD's Call For A Competitive Edge
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To Transform Tech, DoD Must Stop Being An ‘Innovation Tourist:’ Report
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Spectrum Awareness Leads To Focused Spectrum Management
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To Transform Tech, DoD Must Stop Being An 'Innovation Tourist:' Report The current approach "is more akin to innovation tourism—with the DoD sampling the local fare of the United States' various tech hubs—than a bona fide strategy for bringing emerging technologies into the department," the report notes.
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What Are The Best Ways To Shield Taiwan From A Hungry China? The trick will be to avoid "a situation in which China believes that it has no alternative but to act," says RAND's Michael Mazzar.
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Beyond ABMS: Air Force Pushes Experimental Tech For AI, IT, Data The expanded experimentation campaign is also building new "business approaches" — some of which will require Pentagon-level blessing — to speed software-based capabilities to the field, DAF Chief Architect Preston Dunlap said.
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Qatar's Massive Increase In Military Power Comes With Political, Logistical Headaches As Qatar awaits permission from Paris to base Rafales and Mirages in Turkey, it grapples with the challenge of finding manpower and training them to use dozens of planes it has purchased.
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Book Excerpt: Pruning The Acquisition Kudzu "We are at an inflection point in national security when 'business as usual' and the status quo will allow China, our primary threat, to continue to advance militarily, technologically, economically, and diplomatically," writes Arnold Punaro.
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Thursday, 29 July 2021
Weekly Briefing: Naval Warfare
The latest naval warfare news and analysis from Breaking Defense |
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House Authorizers Poised To Restore Navy's Destroyer — This Time A committee aide said the Navy is "playing a dangerous game" when it includes major battle force ships on its unfunded priority list.
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Navy Needs To Prep For Unmanned Integration, Says SWO Boss "We've got FFG-62. We're going to have another DDG variant at some point and then we've got the unmanned stuff. How do I introduce it to the fleet? What does that look like?" said Vice Adm. Roy Kitchener, the service's top surface warfare officer.
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Navy Pushing Additional Safety Checks Following Bonhomme Richard Fire A senior Navy admiral says the service is "pretty good" at firefighting at sea, but conceded "education" and "spot checking" is necessary at the shipyards.
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Fielding LCS Minehunting Mission Package Now A 'Key Priority' The Navy recently completed a 3-week at-sea testing period for MCM USV and are awaiting the results before moving forward with a full-rate production contract.
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Space Force Vice Argues Value Of Embattled Analysis Center
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Space Force Vice Argues Value Of Embattled Analysis Center SWAC is not duplicating the functions of the joint DoD-IC Space Security and Defense Program, argues Gen. DT Thompson.
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Lawmakers Throw Wrench Into Air Force ISR Divestment Plan House authorizers threw shade at the service for not heeding long-standing warnings of the potential for a gap in tactical aircraft availability.
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Focus On The Enablers For Long Range Precision Fires "The US often seeks solutions for firepower primarily in the arena of new long-range weaponry. Yet, experience shows that emphasis on weapons technology alone is a serious mistake," says Mike Nagata.
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Biden Issues National Security Memorandum On Critical Infrastructure "I think it's more than likely we're going to end up, if we end up in a war – a real shooting war with a major power – it's going to be as a consequence of a cyber breach of great consequence, and it's increasing exponentially," President Biden said.
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Range, Speed, And Reaction Time At Operational Distances Will Define The Next Phase Of Army Aviation [Sponsored] Bell created the V-280 Valor with agility, speed in excess of 280 knots, and more than 500 nm of range that is needed to quickly take advantage of tactical opportunities in multi-domain operations in theaters across the globe.
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The Latest In Encryptors For Secure, Classified Comms To The Tactical Edge
[Sponsored] One of the most important tactical tools for the warfighter are encryptors that extend classified, secure communications from the tactical edge to the enterprise. |