Weekly Briefing: Air Warfare News and Analysis

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Weekly Briefing Air Warfare

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Iran Missile Upgrades Complicate GCC Defense Efforts Arab Gulf States must improve ISR, EW capabilities and extend their early warning range and enhance systems' integration to counter Iran's ballistic missile threat

US, Israel Readying For Iran Strikes In Mid East The IDF went into the highest level of readiness to be ready for some of the 140,000 rockets possessed by Hezbollah in Lebanon or from areas in the Gulf region controlled by the Houthi rebels, Iran's main proxy in this region. Iron Dome, David's Sling and Arrow are all reportedly on highest alert.

Air Force Expands Experimental Pilot Training Across Aircraft, Helo Fleets "We flew the F-22 like it was an F-15. We flew the F-15E like an F-111. APT-X will figure out how can we can fly the T-7 differently – not like a T-38," says Brig. Gen. Brenda Cartier, 19th Air Force vice commander.

AIA: Hill, DoD Must Change Relations For Faster Space Acquisition Since its creation last December, the U.S. Space Force has been charged with rapidly countering growing threats in an increasingly important domain. To successfully meet this mission, the service will have to adapt in a number of ways. One of the most vital tasks will be reforming an acquisition process ill-suited to protect against these…

Air Force Plans First Digital Engineering Pitch Day "We're learning from industry as we go," said Eileene Vidrine, Air Force chief data officer.

Space Force Will Boost Reliance On Commercial Sats: Gen. Raymond "We see a huge opportunity here to have a fused relationship with industry that will provide great advantage," Gen. Raymond says.

Dunlap Speaks On The Navy, Air Force, Army & JADC2 In part five of our exclusive video interview, Preston Dunlap outlines the Air Force and Navy's relations on All Domain Operations.

Navy, Marines Plan Big Wargames For Big Wars: Virtual Is Vital Future multi-domain combat will be so complex and long-ranged that the military will rely heavily on simulations to train for it, because battles have become too big for real-world training ranges.

T-7A Red Hawk Simulator Production Starts The Air Force has ordered 46 simulators and associated ground equipment, but can purchase up to 120 simulators under the current contract with Boeing.

STARCOM: Training Troops To Fight Space Wars, Boldly "We've decided that the topic is important enough and unique enough that we need a group of people who understand it down to its most fundamental levels."

Space Force, AFRL To Demo Mobile Lunar Spy Sat The highly mobile D2S2 satellite will carry a 20cm camera to test the sensor performance needed for lunar imaging.

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Project Avenger: VR, Big Data Sharpen Navy Pilot Training

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Project Avenger: VR, Big Data Sharpen Navy Pilot Training The first class of trainee pilots to use the new technology — and the more individualized instruction it allows — are making rapid progress, Navy officials say.

CJCS Milley Predicts DoD Budget 'Bloodletting' To Fund Navy "Look, I'm an Army guy," Milley said. "And I love the Army…but the fundamental defense of the United States and the ability to project power forward will always be for America naval and air and space power."

Iran Missile Upgrades Complicate GCC Defense Efforts Arab Gulf States must improve ISR, EW capabilities and extend their early warning range and enhance systems' integration to counter Iran's ballistic missile threat

US, Israel Readying For Iran Strikes In Mid East The IDF went into the highest level of readiness to be ready for some of the 140,000 rockets possessed by Hezbollah in Lebanon or from areas in the Gulf region controlled by the Houthi rebels, Iran's main proxy in this region. Iron Dome, David's Sling and Arrow are all reportedly on highest alert.

Air Force Expands Experimental Pilot Training Across Aircraft, Helo Fleets "We flew the F-22 like it was an F-15. We flew the F-15E like an F-111. APT-X will figure out how can we can fly the T-7 differently – not like a T-38," says Brig. Gen. Brenda Cartier, 19th Air Force vice commander.

AIA: Hill, DoD Must Change Relations For Faster Space Acquisition Since its creation last December, the U.S. Space Force has been charged with rapidly countering growing threats in an increasingly important domain. To successfully meet this mission, the service will have to adapt in a number of ways. One of the most vital tasks will be reforming an acquisition process ill-suited to protect against these…

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[Breaking] CJCS Milley Predicts DoD ‘Bloodletting’ To Fund Navy

WASHINGTON: In a major speech predicting important strategic shifts for the United States, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, an Army general, today predicted "a lot of bloodletting" in the Pentagon as the military strives to get the Navy the hundreds of new ships it says it needs to confront China.

Breaking News:     CJCS Milley Predicts DoD 'Bloodletting' To Fund Navy WASHINGTON: In a major speech predicting important strategic shifts for the United States, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, an Army general, today predicted "a lot of bloodletting" in the Pentagon as the military strives to get the Navy the hundreds of new ships it says it needs to confront China.   Read more » Breaking Defense 611 Broadway • New York, New York • 10012 unsubscribe

Weekly Briefing: Naval Warfare News and Analysis

The latest naval warfare news and analysis from Breaking Defense

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Dunlap Speaks On The Navy, Air Force, Army & JADC2 In part five of our exclusive video interview, Preston Dunlap outlines the Air Force and Navy's relations on All Domain Operations.

Navy, Marines Plan Big Wargames For Big Wars: Virtual Is Vital Future multi-domain combat will be so complex and long-ranged that the military will rely heavily on simulations to train for it, because battles have become too big for real-world training ranges.

USS Bonhomme Richard Heads For Scrapyard After Devastating Fire With repair costs coming in at about $3.2 billion, the navy is forced to walk away from one of 10 amphibious ships slated to play a big role in the competition with China

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Air Force Plans First Digital Engineering Pitch Day

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Air Force Plans First Digital Engineering Pitch Day "We're learning from industry as we go," said Eileene Vidrine, Air Force chief data officer.

COVID Jump Starts DoD's Move to Microsoft Office 365 DoD is accelerating the Defense Enterprise Office Solutions (DEOS) cloud-computing program so users can start using Teams next month.

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JLTV: New $911M Order Strengthens Oshkosh's Hand For Recompete With 9,500 Joint Light Tactical Vehicles already delivered, the Army was running out of room on its existing contracts, so it just ordered another 2,738 from Oshkosh. That'll keep production going through a re-competition scheduled for 2022.

Congress Pushes Forward Defense Bill; Fight with POTUS Looms Whatever happens with the 2021 budget, ":I suspect that the Pentagon's budgets will start flattening out," Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley said today. "There's a reasonable prospect that they could actually decline significantly."

Space Force Will Boost Reliance On Commercial Sats: Gen. Raymond "We see a huge opportunity here to have a fused relationship with industry that will provide great advantage," Gen. Raymond says.

DISA Puts Trust in Zero Trust With New Strategy, Testing Lab "Zero Trust [is] where we see a lot of departmental capabilities moving over the next 12 to 18 months," said John Hale, chief of cloud services at DISA

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Weekly Briefing: Land Warfare News and Analysis

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Navy, Marines Plan Big Wargames For Big Wars: Virtual Is Vital Future multi-domain combat will be so complex and long-ranged that the military will rely heavily on simulations to train for it, because battles have become too big for real-world training ranges.

eBullet Brings Richer Realism To Army Training; No More Laser Tag A new training network will simulate the effects of weapons — from mortars and grenades to, potentially, germ warfare — and tell troops if they're "killed" or "wounded," then play the whole exercise back for AI analysis. One Army engineer told us: "We've never been able to train this stuff, never."

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