Weekly Briefing: Air Warfare

The latest Air Warfare news and analysis from Breaking Defense.

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Weekly Briefing Air Warfare

At Pentagon meeting on hypersonics, CEOs urge stable funding, better infrastructure The high-level meeting signaled the importance of hypersonic tech, sources said, but also bureaucratic and real-world challenges to overcome in a hurry.

Maintainers, rejoice! The first phase of a major F-35 logistics overhaul is complete All of the oldest servers used to run the F-35's logistics system have now been replaced with modern hardware, with hopes of software to follow.

Lockheed names US production sites for LMXT tanker The LMXT — a variant of the Airbus 330 Multi Role Trainer Transport — will be assembled in Mobile, Ala., before being converted into a tanker in Marietta, Ga.

DARPA's 'ROCkN' laser-based clocks will know what time it really is, to the sub-picosecond Optical clocks in labs today "fill out a huge room, a big room with a very complex, very sophisticated apparatus that takes multiple PhDs to run," Tatjana Curcic, who manages DARPA's Robust Optical Clock Network project, told Breaking Defense.

New Pentagon report censors details on weapons programs' performance, flaws "By caving to pressure inside the Pentagon and hiding unclassified information behind a pseudo classification, the current leaders of DOT&E are undermining the effectiveness of their own agency," said Dan Grazier, a fellow with the Project on Government Oversight.

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