Weekly Briefing: Air Warfare

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Weekly Briefing Air Warfare

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F-35 Engine Rivals Prepare For Another Clash General Electric could find itself in a contest with incumbent Pratt & Whitney for a replacement for the F-35's engine.

FARA Farce: What The Army Didn't Learn From The F-35 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…

'Come In Low': Army Aviation Modifies Training To Prepare For Rivals Like Russia, China "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.

'Absolutely Not True': Army CIO Answers Claim US Has Already Lost To China In AI "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.

Northrop Grumman Eyes Next-Gen SIGINT For Army "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."

COVID-19, Supply Chain Issues Hampering Pentagon's Quest To Buy Counter-Drone Tech Half of the companies invited to participate in a counter-drone demonstration this September ended up skipping it due to COVID-19.

Army Puts Leidos Special Mission Plane Through Paces At Project Convergence A newly configured plane — which they're calling ARTEMIS 2.0 — is expected to be ready in March 2022, Leidos says. This comes after two extensive deployments to both the Pacific and European theaters, flying more than 569 mission hours and boasting an impressive readiness rate of more than 90 percent in 2020.

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