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Biden Nominates Douglas Bush To Be Army Top Acquisition Official Given his previous work, Bush is intimately familiar with the acquisition challenges that Army faces as it pushes modernization.

Army, Navy Units To Transfer To Space Force Soon The Army units involved operate a payload for the Wideband Global SATCOM system; the Navy's are connected to the Mobile User Objective System sats.

Russia, PRC Intercept US Aircraft 'Multiple Times A Day' In Pacific: PacAF The head of Pacific Air Force said he had no objections to India buying Russia's S-400 system "in the current environment." But — and this is a big but — he said India's action "will perhaps affect a future purchase by India, if they were interested in purchasing other defense equipment from us. But that's out of my lane, and I don't really talk about that, because it's tomorrow stuff."

Brown: Air Force Serious About E-7 Wedgetail Acquiring the Wedgetail "gives us a path" while the service awaits a space-based capability, Air Force Chief of Staff CQ Brown said, as "an option to be able to get the capability much faster than if we were to start a new start from scratch."

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New Quadcopter Drone 'Kargo' in Development, Hopes to Supply Marines Kaman executives said they have been operating a 50% scale model for testing purposes and plan to build and demonstrate a representative aircraft by the end of next year.

AFRL's Golden Horde 'Gladiator' Drones To Compete Virtually "The win for the research lab, and for our acquirers is that we get to see the cutting edge technologies that are out there," said AFRL Director Maj. Gen. Heather Pringle.

DoD Spending On JADC2 Jumps, With Increased Focus On Interoperability: Report Govini's Billy Fabian said that for some JADC2 problems, the DoD has a "closing window… before the next generation of capabilities are too far along in development. Otherwise, it risks making its interoperability challenges even worse."

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