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Melissa Dalton To Be Nominated As ASD For Homeland Defense Dalton, a longtime member of the CSIS think tank, has been the Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy since January.

KC-46: Baby Steps To Wider Availability For Operators TRANSCOM can now task KC-46 tankers to use their air refueling boom to fill up C-17 Globemaster III, B-52H Stratofortress and other KC-46 aircraft during day-to-day operations.

Iran's Drones Are Transforming The Middle East: Book Excerpt Iran takes center stage in an excerpt from Seth J. Frantzman's "Drone Wars: Pioneers, Killing Machines, Artificial Intelligence and the Battle for the Future."

Navy Acquisition Boss Shifting Programs To Prep For Project Overmatch The Navy's program executive officers must make recommendations about what programs should report directly to the leadership overseeing Project Overmatch by October.

DSCA Looking At 'Creative Financing' For Future Foreign Military Sales DSCA also is looking at ways to better advertise options like third-party transfers to potential foreign buyers, says Air Force FMS specialist Col. Anthony Walker.

Mandiant CTO: Cyber Attribution, Deterrence More Vital Than Defense "We're on the defense," Ron Bushar, senior vice president at Mandiant says. "I don't think we've hit a real deterrence level in this space yet. And that's going to be key to thinking through our strategy over the next few years."

Lockheed Faces Intense Competition To Build Greece's Next Frigate Analysts say a major advantage Lockheed has over its European competitors is the kind of lifetime warranty a deal with the U.S. government provides, offering full access to Naval Sea Systems Command and its expertise.

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