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Army, Air Force Get Serious On JADC2: Joint Exercises In 2021 "Gen. Brown" – the Air Force Chief of Staff – "and I are both committed to making this happen," Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville tells Breaking Defense. "It starts at the top."

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[Breaking] Army, Air Force Get Serious On JADC2: Joint Exercises In 2021

"Gen. Brown" – the Air Force Chief of Staff – "and I are both committed to making this happen," Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville tells Breaking Defense. "It starts at the top."

Breaking News:     Army, Air Force Get Serious On JADC2: Joint Exercises In 2021 "Gen. Brown" – the Air Force Chief of Staff – "and I are both committed to making this happen," Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville tells Breaking Defense. "It starts at the top." Read more » Breaking Defense 611 Broadway • New York, New York • 10012 unsubscribe

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SDA Missile Tracking A 'Strategic Win' For L3Harris, SpaceX ""Where will the money for this program come from, and will it means less money for the Space Force and all the existing space programs of record?" asks Secure World Foundation's Brian Weeden.

Starship Troopers? TRANSCOM-SpaceX Accord Raises Policy Eyebrows Point-to-point space transport is "a decade plus, maybe even multiple decades, in the future for that to be economical and practical from any commercial standpoint," Carissa Christensen, CEO of Bryce Space and Technologies, says.

US Must Weigh 'Strategic Impacts' Of Arming The Heavens: Aerospace "I think probably the biggest single thing that I know Gen. Raymond is working on … is really fleshing out that long-term vision for the Space Force," Justin Johnson, acting deputy assistant secretary for space policy says.

Space Force Nears Year Mark, Acquisition Remains A Quagmire The Space Development Agency "could easily die away without anybody missing it," said former Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson.

Space Force Fears COVID Loss Of Commercial Startups: Gen. Thompson "I'm not sure yet if we figured out a way to ensure part of that (commercial market) will survive," Gen. DT Thompson said.

Microsoft Positions Itself To Win Space Data Market With Azure Orbital Offering Ground-Stations-as-a-Service means customers are only obliged to pay for the amount of time they actually need to use on the station.

AFRL's Big Ambitions For Lunar Patrol Satellites "We are interested in technologies to support wide area search, narrow field tracking, and autonomous space domain awareness," says CHPS program manager Capt. David Buehler.

SMC Saves $53M Reusing SpaceX Boosters For GPS III SpaceX has launched with a previously used Falcon 9 booster 38 times, says Michael Ellis, director at SpaceX's National Security Space Launch director.

SIA Calls For Space Traffic Rules ASAP SIA says there could be as many as 107,671 satellites on orbit by 2029. There are now slightly fewer than 3,000.

Marine F-35s Share Targeting Data With Army: Project Convergence The Army's future-warfare exercise overcame a host of technical glitches to link systems ranging from NRO and NGA spy satellites to Marine Corps fighter jets.

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SDA Missile Tracking A 'Strategic Win' For L3Harris, SpaceX ""Where will the money for this program come from, and will it means less money for the Space Force and all the existing space programs of record?" asks Secure World Foundation's Brian Weeden.

Starship Troopers? TRANSCOM-SpaceX Accord Raises Policy Eyebrows Point-to-point space transport is "a decade plus, maybe even multiple decades, in the future for that to be economical and practical from any commercial standpoint," Carissa Christensen, CEO of Bryce Space and Technologies, says.

US Must Weigh 'Strategic Impacts' Of Arming The Heavens: Aerospace "I think probably the biggest single thing that I know Gen. Raymond is working on … is really fleshing out that long-term vision for the Space Force," Justin Johnson, acting deputy assistant secretary for space policy says.

First Joint Exercise To Test All-Domain Capabilities: Valiant Shield 2020 The exercise also served as the Air Force's third "On Ramp" demo for its Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS), demonstrating a new software for battlefield situational awareness.

Treat AI As Intelligence — Not Technology The US military is rolling out AI-enabled projects like the Air Force's Airborne Battle Management System or the Army's Project Convergence. But the novelty of these demonstrations and the effort required to pull them off suggest that—unlike Silicon Valley—DoD is struggling to incorporate AI into its combat systems, aircraft, ships, and other equipment.  DoD promulgated an…

F-15EX Radar Win Buoys Raytheon Market Hopes "There's definitely a big future for the export version of the AN/APG-82," says Michelle Styczynski, F-15 Senior Product Line Director for Raytheon Intelligence & Space.

Space Force Nears Year Mark, Acquisition Remains A Quagmire The Space Development Agency "could easily die away without anybody missing it," said former Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson.

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Navy Scours Budget To Build More Ships; SecNav Looks To WWII Carriers As Model For Future

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Navy Scours Budget To Build More Ships; SecNav Looks To WWII Carriers As Model For Future In his first substantive public comments about the fleet since assuming the job in May, Kenneth Braithwaite talks about carrier cuts, pumping up shipbuilding budget, and promises from Defense secretary Esper

New Pentagon Strategy To Share Data Like Ammunition ALBUQUERQUE: The new Department of Defense Data Strategy is designed to flatten the obstacles — technical and cultural — that prevent easy data sharing across the military services to enable the Pentagon's push towards Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2). Getting the right data, into the right hands, in a timely and useful manner, without any…

Starship Troopers? TRANSCOM-SpaceX Accord Raises Policy Eyebrows Point-to-point space transport is "a decade plus, maybe even multiple decades, in the future for that to be economical and practical from any commercial standpoint," Carissa Christensen, CEO of Bryce Space and Technologies, says.

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Crippled Icebreaker Healy To Get Complex Rebuild; Huge Engine Heads To Panama Canal Yesterday, the Coast Guard moved a 23-year-old and 106-ton engine onto a barge in Baltimore for a long trip to the West Coast.

First Joint Exercise To Test All-Domain Capabilities: Valiant Shield 2020 The exercise also served as the Air Force's third "On Ramp" demo for its Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS), demonstrating a new software for battlefield situational awareness.

Esper Outlines New Navy, But Big Questions Remain Convincing Congress that cutting carriers, building hundreds of unmanned ships, and constructing new classes of small boats will take some work.

Longer Navy Deployments, Fewer Port Calls To Manage COVID The COVID pandemic "has added complexity" to the Navy's plans, Vice Adm. Phil Sawyer said. "But the [deployment schedule] has not changed."

Eye On Africa, Navy's New Ship Homeports in Crete As Russian fighters fly in Libya and Turkey steps up operations in the region, the US just put its new sea base capable to surging Marines and commandos ashore into Crete

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