Raytheon, Northrop, Lockheed to compete for hypersonic interceptor

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Raytheon, Northrop, Lockheed to compete for hypersonic interceptor The GPI is being developed to knock down hypersonic missiles as they glide through the Earth's upper atmosphere at about 70 kilometers in altitude at speeds greater than Mach 5.

DoD issues cloud solicitations to AWS, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle Google's addition is somewhat surprising since, in recent years, the company has pulled away from DoD work due to internal pressure on executives from its workforce. The apparent omission of IBM is also notable.

'Almost a melding' of US, UK, Aussie services coming: NSC's Kurt Campbell The context for President Biden's almost four-hour discussion Monday night with President Xi Jinpeng, Kurt Campbell said, is "that the United States is here to stay in the Indo-Pacific, and we're going to defend and support the operating system that has been so good for so many of us for many years."

US Air Force one step closer to turning cargo planes into makeshift bombers Next month, the Air Force will see if it can launch a live cruise missile from a pallet that was air dropped by a cargo plane.

Divining the future of heavy vertical lift in the Army With the Army focused on FLRAA and FARA, the question of heavy lift under the Future Vertical Lift program won't be answered for a decade or more. In the meantime, here's what the Army is thinking.

Allies eyeing 'niche' space capabilities for warfighting with US "The key to success is frank and open discussion … tearing down those information sharing barriers, to be sure that we're truly interoperable," said Australian Air Commodore Nicholas Hogan.

It's time for Pentagon to prioritize near-term acquisition fixes over systemic change Former Pentagon official Jeff Bialos says with less than three years for an undersecretary of acquisition and sustainment to do their job, they need to focus on triage efforts.

Spain still interested in F-35: Lockheed exec The Spanish defense ministry put the kibosh on talks of an F-35 buy, but Lockheed's vice president for aeronautics is "pretty confident" that Madrid will need to buy F-35s to replace its Harriers.

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