Weekly Briefing: Naval Warfare News and Analysis

The latest naval warfare news and analysis from Breaking Defense

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Weekly Briefing Naval Warfare

Senate Ships vs. House Subs: Conference Clash To Come? House Democrats want to add $2.5 billion to build a second Virginia-class submarine next year. Senate Republicans would rather spend on destroyers and amphibious ships.

House Appropriators Add 12 F-35s, Boost Weapons Spending, But… "To us, it means that there is going to be much more tension and debate over future modernization programs as flat investment will not enable DoD to recapitalize in a timely and militarily relevant pace," says defense analyst Byron Callan.

'A Golden Age For Collaboration' On Lasers & Microwaves: But Watch The Cheetos!  "I spent the first 15 years of my career walking around in a lab with a laser, saying 'does anyone want this…' and the warfighter [kept] going 'that's adorable,'" Craig Robin recalled ruefully. "Just recently there's been a tremendous pull [because] we simply just got out it into the user's hands and they recognized the value."

Bath Iron Works Recruits Non-Union Workers As Yard Strike Continues With contractors on the way, the union and the company remain at an impasse even as seven Navy destroyers languish pierside.

Congress Pumps The Brakes On Navy, Demands Answers From OSD Lawmakers "are frustrated by the Navy's last decade of cost overruns on new programs, programs being late, and technology being the thing that holds them up," Bryan Clark of the Hudson Institute says.

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Senate, House Set To Rumble Over Who Controls Nuke Budget

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How Antares Sends Care Packages to Space.

Presented by Northrop Grumman

Since 2014, the Antares rocket has been boosting our Cygnus spacecraft into orbit to ferry cargo like scientific experiments, food, and instruments to keep the International Space Station running.

Senate, House Set To Rumble Over Who Controls Nuke Budget The provision seeks to prevent the Nuclear Weapons Council "from further encroaching on the development of the NNSA budget," Kingston Reif, director of arms control and threat reduction policy at the Arms Control Association, told Breaking D.

Top Defense Execs Ask For Help in Next COVID Stimulus Package The biggest defense manufacturers in the world warned the Pentagon and OMB of "significant job losses in pivotal states" if Congress doesn't come up with stimulus money to cover unforeseen expenses.

DoD Needs New Measures For Valuing Weapons: Mitchell WASHINGTON: The Pentagon should not judge weapon systems on "overly simplistic metrics" but adopt a more holistic evaluation that weighs a weapon's cost and capabilities against the total costs of achieving the mission, a new paper from the Mitchell Institute argues. "All we ever hear is, that the F-22 and the F-35 are expensive. But…

Congress Pushes Pentagon To Finally Kick Turkey Out Of F-35 Program The senators wrote they "remain concerned about the direction Turkey is taking under the leadership of President Erdogan…Turkey is not behaving like a responsible actor or working collaboratively with the West at the level we expect from a NATO ally."

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Weekly Briefing: Land Warfare News and Analysis

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eBrief: Foreign Military Sales, Strategic Interests and the Supply Chain

By BARRY ROSENBERG

FMS has become arguably the nation's preeminent tool for building and solidifying relationships with foreign nations. We take a look at why it's important, how it works and the FMS roles of DoD, Congress, State Department, Industry and allied nations.

'A Golden Age For Collaboration' On Lasers & Microwaves: But Watch The Cheetos!  "I spent the first 15 years of my career walking around in a lab with a laser, saying 'does anyone want this…' and the warfighter [kept] going 'that's adorable,'" Craig Robin recalled ruefully. "Just recently there's been a tremendous pull [because] we simply just got out it into the user's hands and they recognized the value."

IBCS: Army Launches Massive Army Missile Defense Test Postponed seven weeks by the pandemic, the high-stakes field test of the IBCS missile defense network is now back on, with elaborate precautions against COVID-19.

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House Appropriators Add 12 F-35s, Boost Weapons Spending, But…

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How Antares Sends Care Packages to Space.

Presented by Northrop Grumman

Since 2014, the Antares rocket has been boosting our Cygnus spacecraft into orbit to ferry cargo like scientific experiments, food, and instruments to keep the International Space Station running.

House Appropriators Add 12 F-35s, Boost Weapons Spending, But… "To us, it means that there is going to be much more tension and debate over future modernization programs as flat investment will not enable DoD to recapitalize in a timely and militarily relevant pace," says defense analyst Byron Callan.

'A Golden Age For Collaboration' On Lasers & Microwaves: But Watch The Cheetos!  "I spent the first 15 years of my career walking around in a lab with a laser, saying 'does anyone want this…' and the warfighter [kept] going 'that's adorable,'" Craig Robin recalled ruefully. "Just recently there's been a tremendous pull [because] we simply just got out it into the user's hands and they recognized the value."

Senate NDAA Mandates NRO To 'Maximize' Commercial Imagery Use "This language from the SASC serves notice that they intend to keep a close eye on the NRO's commercial remote sensing program," observed Keith Masback, a former senior defense and intelligence official.

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Weekly Briefing: Defense Networks & Cyber News and Analysis

The latest defense networks & cyber news and analysis from Breaking Defense.

Future Missile War Needs New Kind Of Command: CSIS Integrating missile defense – shooting down incoming missiles – with missile offense – destroying the launchers before they fire again – requires major changes in how the military fights.

IBCS: Army Launches Massive Army Missile Defense Test Postponed seven weeks by the pandemic, the high-stakes field test of the IBCS missile defense network is now back on, with elaborate precautions against COVID-19.

Cyber Strike By Foreign Force Caused Iran Explosion: Israeli Experts Iranian officials confirmed damage to a building built near the Natanz nuclear power plant today, saying an "accident" occurred. Israel has denied any connection to the huge explosion in the secret facility.

Air Force Boosts High-Speed Contract Pool For ABMS "Agile operations require agile technology. Agile technology requires agile acquisition. Agile acquisition requires agile contracting," says Air Force Chief Architect Preston Dunlap.

SASC Pushes Cyber Overhaul In New NDAA "This pandemic only strengthens the argument for preparing for what we call a cyber pandemic, which we might well face," Sen. King says. "This is the longest wind up for a punch in the history of the world. We better be ready."

Upgradeable Birds: AF Taps Hypergiant For 'Reconfigurable' Satellites By deploying smallsats in LEO, operators and users can continually test, demonstrate, and create new procedures for offensive and defensive counter space while inserting new and emerging technology into mission architectures," Hypergiant CEO Ben Lamm says.

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Future Missile War Needs New Kind Of Command: CSIS

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How Antares Sends Care Packages to Space.

Presented by Northrop Grumman

Since 2014, the Antares rocket has been boosting our Cygnus spacecraft into orbit to ferry cargo like scientific experiments, food, and instruments to keep the International Space Station running.

Future Missile War Needs New Kind Of Command: CSIS Integrating missile defense – shooting down incoming missiles – with missile offense – destroying the launchers before they fire again – requires major changes in how the military fights.

Bath Iron Works Recruits Non-Union Workers As Yard Strike Continues With contractors on the way, the union and the company remain at an impasse even as seven Navy destroyers languish pierside.

IBCS: Army Launches Massive Army Missile Defense Test Postponed seven weeks by the pandemic, the high-stakes field test of the IBCS missile defense network is now back on, with elaborate precautions against COVID-19.

Senate Kills NDAA Language To 'Usurp' Civilian Control Of Nuke Budget "The compromise still achieves Chairman Inhofe's goal of giving the Department of Defense more direct involvement in the development of the NNSA budget, but the final approval power still rests with the Secretary of Energy," SASC spokesperson Marta Hernandez says.

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[Breaking] Bath Iron Works Recruits Non-Union Workers As Yard Strike Continues

WASHINGTON: Shipbuilder Bath Iron Works is looking to hire hundreds of non-union workers to temporarily replace 4,300 unionized shipbuilders on strike since June 21, the news coming out even as the union met with a federal mediator. The union's president, Robert Martinez., said in a statement that the search for contract workers "is further proof that BIW has no intention of bargaining in good faith."

Breaking News:     Bath Iron Works Recruits Non-Union Workers As Yard Strike Continues WASHINGTON: Shipbuilder Bath Iron Works is looking to hire hundreds of non-union workers to temporarily replace 4,300 unionized shipbuilders on strike since June 21, the news coming out even as the union met with a federal mediator. The union's president, Robert Martinez., said in a statement that the search for contract workers "is further proof that BIW has no intention of bargaining in good faith. " Read more » Breaking Defense 611 Broadway • New York, New York • 10012 unsubscribe