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How 'The Expanse' Is A Cautionary Tale For Real World Space Commercialization: Excerpt By Theresa Hitchens As the march of space commerce continues apace, the United States and other space nations will need to consider how they intend to harness the benefits of commercial space exploitation and corral the risks.   SOAR Is The Tool That Frees Up Critical Thinking By Barry Rosenberg An Army senior research scientist offers his suggestions on what to look for in a security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) tool.   First Live Hypersonic Missile Rounds To Be Delivered to Army Unit Next Year By Andrew Eversden The service remains on pace to field an offensive hypersonic unit by fiscal 2023, general says.   F-35 Engine Rivals Prepare For Another Clash By Valerie Insinna General Electric could find itself in a contest with incumbent Pratt & Whitney for a replacement for the F-35's engine.   Unclear And Contradictory Rules Bedevil Commercial Space Firms: Study By Theresa Hitchens The Aerospace study found that controlling the creation of dangerous space junk is a regulatory arena "where clarity is badly needed," for one.   FARA Farce: What The Army Didn't Learn From The F-35 By Bill Greenwalt As the Army races forward to take flight in its Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA), Breaking Defense contributor and acquisition expert Bill Greenwalt sees too many troubling parallels with the Air Force's infamous production of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. With taxpayer dollars and Army tactical capabilities in the balance, he argues in the op-ed…   Exclusive: New Shakeup Coming To Space Force Acquisition By Theresa Hitchens "Congress can hold politicals accountable — not so much with the uniformed officers," one former DoD official said.   The Army And Marine Corps Have A New Option For Assured PNT Today By Barry Rosenberg [Sponsored] Leonardo DRS' AC²ES Assured Position, Navigation, and Timing solution for MFoCS-equipped tactical vehicles creates a bridging and interim capability to fill a gap.   Army Delays Operational Test Of Microsoft Augmented Reality Goggles By Andrew Eversden The Integrated Visual Augmentation System, part of a $21.88 billion contract, will now have its operational test in May 2022.   Peraton Developing 'Single-Pane-Of-Glass' Visibility Across Army's Unified Network By Brad D. Williams "If there's one thing DoD and industry have done, it's try a whole bunch of different tools over the last 10 to 12 years. What we have to do now is string them all together to show which ones work best for the capabilities the Army needs today and divest the ones that they don't need," Peraton VP Jennifer Napper said.   Army's New Missile Sets New Distance Record By Andrew Eversden Lockheed says missile test "successful," won't say exactly how far it went.   'Come In Low': Army Aviation Modifies Training To Prepare For Rivals Like Russia, China By Andrew Eversden "We're going to be flying in lower flight profiles than we have over the last 20 years in counterinsurgency operations and so, even today, we are changing the way we train Army aviators," said Maj. Gen. David Francis.   Four Questions With Army Futures Commander Gen. John Murray By Andrew Eversden "You're not going to see the breakthroughs if every bit of risk is baked out of everything we do from the very beginning. We'll never be able to keep up with the pace of change," Murray said.   'Absolutely Not True': Army CIO Answers Claim US Has Already Lost To China In AI By Colin Clark "If you looked at both what we have in the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community, across the federal government and our industrial partners, we have the best AI technology," Army CIO Ray Iyer said.   To Aid Digital Transformation, Army Eyes 'One Cloud' And Faster Acquisition By Theresa Hitchens "The Army in the past has always executed traditional IT in a very decentralized way — we let every command do their own thing," Army CIO Raj Iyer said. "Now, if you look at the requirements for multi-domain operations, that model doesn't work anymore."   Israel, US Navies Set Up New Coordination Efforts On Iran: Sources By Arie Egozi "This coordination has become an everyday requirement as things happen all the time," said Ret. Maj. Gen. Amos Gilead.   AMPV Weld Problems Fixed; BAE, Army Agree On New Baseline By Colin Clark The program, which was rebaselined during Low Rate Initial Production, is now meeting monthly production goals, Jim Schimer, deputy PEO for ground combat systems, told us. But a "gap remains" between what BAE was contracted to supply and what they are supplying.   Top Pentagon Arms Sales Official, Heidi Grant, Exits; Expected To Land At Boeing By Aaron Mehta Heidi Grant has been leading the Defense Security Cooperation Agency for 15 months.   Northrop Grumman Eyes Next-Gen SIGINT For Army By Brad D. Williams "So I think [the concept of integration is] so simple and yet so hard to achieve," Northrop VP Walsmith said. "You need to be able to integrate applications, whether they're your own or someone else's, with ease and simplicity. It is easy to say. It's very hard to engineer."   German Defense Company RENK Group Unveils American Subsidiary By Andrew Eversden The American subsidiary wants to give the Army and primes a "one point of contact" for vehicle propulsion.   Countering Asymmetric Threats With High-Energy Lasers By Barry Rosenberg [Sponsored] Raytheon's high-energy laser weapon systems is part of the U.S. Army's Directed Energy Maneuver-Short Range Air Defense (DE M-SHORAD) program.   Backed By Army, Smart Shooter Now Looks To Sell Counter-Drone Tech To Marines By Arie Egozi The threat of small UAS is a growing one for militaries around the world, with the Pentagon pursuing a number of different options for how to take down such systems.   Poland's Self-Propelled Mortar Gets A Redesign By Aaron Mehta The new chassis provides a much higher level of anti-mine and ballistic protection than previous designs for a key part of Poland's land forces.   The US Army Is About To Launch Its New Missile At 'Max' Range By Aaron Mehta Wednesday's test of the Precision Strike Missile will attempt to go 499 km.   McConville: Soldiers To See Prototypes Of 24 'Signature' Modernization Systems By FY23 By Andrew Eversden Army Chief of Staff said modernization efforts are "already paying off."   Army's Mid-Range Capability Builds On Navy Missiles To Speed Fielding By Theresa Hitchens The Army is on track to deliver a first prototype MRC by 2023, said Marcia Holmes, deputy director at the Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technology Office.   Pentagon's R&D Czar 'Looking For Money' for 32 New Tech Projects By Valerie Insinna Heidi Shyu, the Pentagon's top R&D official, is seeking funding in FY22 to start a new round of experiments in FY23.   Army To Field Project Convergence Tech 'As Quickly As Possible' By Andrew Eversden AUSA: As the Army puts scores of cutting-edge technologies and capabilities through the ringer at its Project Convergence experiment the deserts of Arizona over the next four weeks, top Army officials are watching closely to see what survives and to get it into the hands of soldiers "as quickly as possible." "If it works, we're…   Advancing The Science Of Breast Cancer Research For Soldiers And Families By CATHERINE MACAULAY [Sponsored] October is Breast Cancer Month, and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine is waging a highly modernized war on breast cancer.   Army General: Missiles To 'Overwhelm' Adversary Must Be Requirement for JADC2 By Andrew Eversden "Penetrating and disintegrating A2/AD is the fundamental problem of all-domain operations. It's the hardest problem we've got," said Brig. Gen. John Rafferty.   Breaking Defense 611 Broadway • New York, New York • 10012 unsubscribe