Weekly Briefing: Naval Warfare

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Weekly Briefing Naval Warfare

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Iran's Largest Warship Sinks In Suspicious Circumstances TEL AVIV: Iran's largest warship, the Kharg, caught fire on Wednesday in the Gulf of Oman and sank. The fire, sources here say, was very strange and the smoke generated by the fire demonstrates "something big went wrong." The Kharg caught fire while sailing in international waters. She was engaged in a training exercise, Iranian…

Key Dems Question Biden Defense Budget; Ship Fight Likely "The President's Defense Budget Request is an outline and a starting point," emphasizes Sen. Jack Reed, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Navy Plans To Cut Ships, But Fleet Plan Remains MIA Requesting "eight ships a year is not going to get to 355," the Navy's top budget official, Rear Adm. John Gumbleton, said. "All things being equal, if you have a 300-ship Navy and a 30-year lifespan you have to recapitalize it…so eight is not going to do it."

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Lockheed Martin Sees Hill Support For F-35 PBL

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Lockheed Martin Sees Hill Support For F-35 PBL "There's a perception out there that Lockheed's going to take everything, and nobody's gonna be able to get in to support of the F-35," said Mike Miles of Lockheed Martin's F-35 logistics unit about the firm's PBL proposal. "That's not the case."

Army Network Gets Most 2022 Modernization $ Some $2.7 billion goes to network upgrades, more than any other Army priority area, according to acting acquisition chief Doug Bush.

Iran's Largest Warship Sinks In Suspicious Circumstances TEL AVIV: Iran's largest warship, the Kharg, caught fire on Wednesday in the Gulf of Oman and sank. The fire, sources here say, was very strange and the smoke generated by the fire demonstrates "something big went wrong." The Kharg caught fire while sailing in international waters. She was engaged in a training exercise, Iranian…

Israeli Defense Minister To Ask US For $1B For Iron Dome Missiles TEL AVIV: Having depleted much of its stockpiles in the Gaza strikes, Israel is asking the U.S for an emergency $1 billion grant to replenish its stock of the Iron Dome rocket interceptor and some "special air launched weapon systems", mainly JDAMS. The Israeli air force used a large number of JDAMS in the part…

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Weekly Briefing: Land Warfare

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Army Modernization Budget Drops $4.2B; Budget Drops $3.6B Overall "We have a lot of people programs and we tried to protect those. Secondly, we tried to protect readiness. Third, we tried to protect modernization," acting secretary John Whitley says.

IDF Explores Ground-to-Ground Rockets; US Co-Production? TEL AVIV: Following the recent rocket attacks from Gaza, Israeli experts say the IDF needs more versions of ground-to-ground rockets to hit enemy rocket launchers. An Israeli defense source told BD that the use of Israeli ground-to-ground missiles in the recent Nagorno-Karabach war "increased the interest in these missiles, especially the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)…

Super-Jammer Goes To Army Multi Domain Task Force The Army Requirements Oversight Council will meet to approve the TLS-EAB program on July 9.

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DoD Budget Appears To Cut Cyber Offense, Beef Up Defenses

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DoD Budget Appears To Cut Cyber Offense, Beef Up Defenses The single biggest reduction in proposed year-over-year cyber funding appears to be in overseas "hunt-forward" cyber operations, with a $284.4 million cut to $147.2 million in 2022 versus a requested $431.6 million last year.

Space Force To Develop Tech For New Types Of Launch The funds will support potential new space missions such as re-fueling satellites on orbit.

Key Dems Question Biden Defense Budget; Ship Fight Likely "The President's Defense Budget Request is an outline and a starting point," emphasizes Sen. Jack Reed, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

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Weekly Briefing: Defense Networks & Cyber

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

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DoD Seeks Boost For Defensive Cyber Tech In 2022 Budget The budget requests funding for four new teams for the Cyber Mission Force. Those teams will support CYBERCOM operations and provide cyber support for space operations.

DHS Cyber Order Signals Shift To 'Mandatory Measures' Today's pipeline directive is likely just the next in a series of actions to shore up national cybersecurity across the private sector, especially those deemed critical infrastructure. "I know there are a number of discussions on the Hill… of a broader data breach notification," Deputy National Security Advisor Anne Neuberger said today.

Super-Jammer Goes To Army Multi Domain Task Force The Army Requirements Oversight Council will meet to approve the TLS-EAB program on July 9.

AF Demos C2 Networking Tech To Link Services, Allies At Astral Knight 21 The 606th Air Control Squadron successfully used TORCC during the May 13-21 Astral Knight 21 exercise to relay integrated air and missile defense and C2 information to to pilots, "including directions for missions and threat awareness," according to the 31st Air Wing.

Pentagon Pushes Testing For Electronic Warfare Vulnerabilities Despite a 2018 mandate for "electronic protection" against jamming, there's little data available showing how vulnerable systems are, said EW director David Tremper.

Armenia, Ukraine Lessons Shape New US Cyber/EW Unit Drones aren't decisive, said the head of Army Cyber Command, without a command system that can rapidly pull together all the data and order a strike before the enemy disappears again.

TRANSCOM Head Envisions Increased Intra-Theater Lift Demand The Joint Warfighting Concept will "envision much smaller force elements that are inherently reliant on very rapid mobility" within a theater, says TRANSCOM head Gen. Stephen Lyons.

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Weekly Briefing: Military Space

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Air Force Hopes To Retire 201 Planes; Space Force Ask Up $2.2B The service plans to buy 48 F-35As and 12 F-15EXs for $4.5 billion and $1.3 billion, but the F-35 buy is almost certain to increase once it hits Capitol Hill. The Air Force also wants to buy 14 KC-46s for $2.4 billion.

Department of the Air Force Mulls Options For Data Sharing "If data is the new oil, then we want to mine that data, refine that data," to make it more useful across the service, Col. Peter Chiou says.

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