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

China Is Ahead in Ship, Missile & Air Defense Tech: DoD Report "The report does not claim that China's military is currently 10 feet tall," but "Beijing is working to overcome [its faults]," says Deputy Assistant Secretary for China, Chad Sbragia

Small RIMPAC Ends With Big Allied Missile Barrage A video released by the Navy shows Harpoon ship-killing missiles launched by the Canadian frigate HMCS Regina and US destroyer USS Lake Erie tearing into the ship, along with a French-made Exocet missile fired by an offshore patrol vessel from Brunei.

'If It Floats, It Fights:' Navy's New Small Ship Strategy Existing amphibious ships might be the "Swiss Army Knife of the fleet," but the Navy and Marines want an enemy who "jumps on it in the opening gambit…they're gonna have the shock of their life."

US Condemns PRC For Paracel Missile Shots The missile firings, DoD says, "further destabilize the situation in the South China Sea. Such exercises also violate PRC commitments under the 2002 Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea to avoid activities that would complicate or escalate disputes and affect peace and stability, and call into question its motivations with ongoing negotiations for a Code of Conduct between China and ASEAN."

DoD War Games Predict 'Extremely Destabilizing' Chinese Military Parity "If we do come to blows with China, it's gonna be very confused for the first 30 or 45 days, and then we must fight in a distributed fashion," said Maj. Gen. Tracy King, Marine Corps' director of Expeditionary Warfare

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‘I Don’t Believe China’ Is Serious About Nuke No First Use: DASD Nukes Soofer

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'I Don't Believe China' Is Serious About Nuke No First Use: DASD Nukes Soofer A top Pentagon official today expressed skepticism over China's nuclear intentions, but he maintained the US wants Beijing at the table for New START talks with Russia

EXCLUSIVE: STRATCOM Creates Global Ops Center For All Domain "I think global integrated operations is really the next big 'advantage space' for the Department of Defense," says Maj. Gen. John Nichols.

'We May Be Losing The Race' For AI With China: Bob Work Robert Work, who pushed hard for AI under Obama, calls for major reforms to catch up with China and Russia. His model? Adm. Rickover's creation of the nuclear Navy in the 1950s.

DISA Bets One $11.7B Deal Can Streamline 4th Estate Networks "The goal of this effort is to modernize the DoD IT architecture, reduce costs, improve business practices, and mitigate operational and cyber risks," said Col. Chris Autrey, DES program manager.

BAE Delivers 1st Production AMPV To Army Despite Cuts & Delays COVID-19 and quality control problems at BAE's York, Penn. plant had slowed the replacement of the Vietnam-vintage M113 armored vehicle.

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Weekly Briefing: Land Warfare News and Analysis

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Weekly Briefing Land Warfare

Army Wants Industry Input For Reliable Exoskeleton (Not Iron Man, Yet!) SOCOM couldn't build a bulletproof Iron Man. But Army experiments with more modest lower-body exoskeletons have shown real-world potential to help overburdened foot troops.

Marines Explore Robots & 5G Networks For Future Wars Could mini-drones and robot trucks, coordinating via 5G, replace vulnerable manned convoys?

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China Is Ahead in Ship, Missile & Air Defense Tech: DoD Report

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China Is Ahead in Ship, Missile & Air Defense Tech: DoD Report "The report does not claim that China's military is currently 10 feet tall," but "Beijing is working to overcome [its faults]," says Deputy Assistant Secretary for China, Chad Sbragia

Link 16 To Tie Legacy Platforms To SDA Satellites Future satellite vendors will need to "show you can plug your WiFi into our WiFi and get a signal," says Space Development Agency Director Derek Tournear.

Scrap Old Planes Or 'Risk Losing High-End Fight:' CSAF Brown "His greatest challenge will be to build the coalition in Washington, and particularly on Capitol Hill, that will support new ways of rapidly developing capabilities," says former Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson.

Army Wants Industry Input For Reliable Exoskeleton (Not Iron Man, Yet!) SOCOM couldn't build a bulletproof Iron Man. But Army experiments with more modest lower-body exoskeletons have shown real-world potential to help overburdened foot troops.

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Weekly Briefing: Defense Networks & Cyber News and Analysis

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

Making DoD Security Operations Centers More Effective: Security Automation Presented by Breaking Defense In this Breaking Defense Game Changer, we show how SOAR technology can help DoD security teams work to identify, analyze, and mitigate threats, improve efficiency and shorten incident response times.  View Now.

Marines Explore Robots & 5G Networks For Future Wars Could mini-drones and robot trucks, coordinating via 5G, replace vulnerable manned convoys?

DoD Needs New Policies, Ethics For Brain-Computer Links (Jacked-In Troops?) "BCI is not just science fiction; it has viable practical applications, but there is much more work that needs to be completed before it becomes mainstream and commercial," RAND's Tim Marler says.

Navy Turns To AI To Save Billions In Fight Against Rust "The AI technology behind this enabled the US Navy to quickly and seamlessly examine tens of thousands of images to prioritize the needs to be repaired immediately and or later on," Mike Daniels, VP of Google Cloud's Global Public Sector.

Exclusive: Milley To OK New Unified Command Plan; Defines SPACECOM's Roles "They're cleaning up a bit of 'the who's in charge' of deciding which mode is a particular sensor going to be in on any given time of the day," one Pentagon expert said of the UCP's changes to SPACECOM's roles.

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ARRW To Mayhem To The Future Of Hypersonic Operations

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ARRW To Mayhem To The Future Of Hypersonic Operations "How are we going to employ hypersonic weapons, what do they bring to the battlefield?," asks Maj. Gen. Mark Weatherington, commander of the 8th Air Force and the Joint-Global Strike Operations Center.

Small RIMPAC Ends With Big Allied Missile Barrage A video released by the Navy shows Harpoon ship-killing missiles launched by the Canadian frigate HMCS Regina and US destroyer USS Lake Erie tearing into the ship, along with a French-made Exocet missile fired by an offshore patrol vessel from Brunei.

Marines Explore Robots & 5G Networks For Future Wars Could mini-drones and robot trucks, coordinating via 5G, replace vulnerable manned convoys?

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