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

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Embodying unmatched stealth and strike capacity, USS Vermont is the 19th Virginia-class submarine to be delivered to our Navy and Nation proudly.

Aboard USS Ford: More Weapons, More Launches, Faster & Safer SOMEWHERE OFF THE EAST COAST: When our aging C-2 Greyhound aircraft took off from the USS Gerald R. Ford the experience was clearly different. Propelled by the electro-magnetic system that has replaced steam catapults it was much smoother and much quicker. The new launch and landing systems provide key tools for a significant reshaping of the…

Navy Sub Bosses Bullish, But Questions Over Building New Fleet Remain Esper's Navy plan remains stuck at the White House, but with the Trump term running out, what parts of it will survive?

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131 TONS of Thanksgiving Treats Move Out This Year "Food is emotional, and this year more than ever, it's so important that DLA Troop Support got the turkeys, hams and all the trimmings to our troops wherever they are stationed," Col. Eric McCoy, DLA troop support subsistence director, says.

Aboard USS Ford: More Weapons, More Launches, Faster & Safer SOMEWHERE OFF THE EAST COAST: When our aging C-2 Greyhound aircraft took off from the USS Gerald R. Ford the experience was clearly different. Propelled by the electro-magnetic system that has replaced steam catapults it was much smoother and much quicker. The new launch and landing systems provide key tools for a significant reshaping of the…

Augmented Reality Opening Soon At A VA Operating Theater Near You [Sponsored]

A partnership among the VHA's Innovation Ecosystem (VHA IE), Verizon, Microsoft, and Medivis installed the nation's first 5G hospital network at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System in California.

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Weekly Briefing: Land Warfare News and Analysis

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Budget Up, French Army Preps For Major Wargames With US After decades fighting guerrillas and terrorists, France is refocusing on Russia and China with increased budgets, intensified training, stronger divisions, and new armored vehicles — much like the US. But the French approach is still very different.

Let Your Robots Off The Leash – Or Lose: AI Experts In DARPA-Army experiments, soldiers tried to micromanage their drones and ground robots, slowing their reaction times and restricting their tactics. Can AIs earn troops' trust?

Use Legacy Systems as Tech Playgrounds for Innovation The Pentagon must avoid the ancient Roman tactic of "burning the bridge behind them" by immediately throwing aside older weapons systems in favor of wholesale investments in new technologies and platforms. While force modernization is necessary, the Department of Defense does not have the time, track record, or the funding to rapidly field replacements to…

Army Will Protect Key Weapons From Post-COVID Cuts: Pasquarette When defense budgets fell in the past, "the easy button" has been cutting modernization to protect manpower and readiness, Lt. Gen. James Pasquarette says. "It's going to be different this time." around."

It's Open Architectures For ALL New Weapons As JROC Sets JADC2 Requirements Joint All-Domain Command and Control "will fundamentally change how we fight as a as a nation, and will change how we organize, train and equip," Air Force director of operational capabilities Maj. Gen. Dawn Dunlop says.

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Budget Up, French Army Preps For Major Wargames With US

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It's Impossible To Get The Full Picture. Until It's Not.

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We provide powerful, scalable networks and capabilities that enable the joint force as one across every domain, service and mission.  Learn more.

Budget Up, French Army Preps For Major Wargames With US After decades fighting guerrillas and terrorists, France is refocusing on Russia and China with increased budgets, intensified training, stronger divisions, and new armored vehicles — much like the US. But the French approach is still very different.

JAIC To Evangelize AI Across DoD "Artificial Intelligence… is not a black box that a contractor is going to deliver to you," Lt. Gen. Michael Groen says. "It's commander's business at every level[:] What data drives your decision-making?"

RCO To Manage ABMS Buys; Tankers First To Sport New Data Links "When you can launch an austere airbase in a space capsule, that's frickin' awesome," says AF acquisition head Will Roper about the idea of suborbital transport spacecraft.

Dunlap On Zero Trust, Agility & ADO Cybersecurity In part four of our exclusive video interview, Preston Dunlap discusses one of toughest challenges to All Domain Operations: integrating an effective tactical edge node into the larger network.

MQ-9 Reapers to the UAE: Why Now? BEIRUT: The United Arab Emirates has long sought advanced American armed drones. That day appears to be close. The US State Department has notified Congress it plans to sell 18 battle-ready MQ-9B drones worth an estimated $2.9 billion to the UAE as part of a bigger deal that includes up to 50 F-35 fighter jets, as…

Augmented Reality Opening Soon At A VA Operating Theater Near You [Sponsored]

A partnership among the VHA's Innovation Ecosystem (VHA IE), Verizon, Microsoft, and Medivis installed the nation's first 5G hospital network at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System in California.

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Weekly Briefing: Defense Networks & Cyber News and Analysis

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

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Let Your Robots Off The Leash – Or Lose: AI Experts In DARPA-Army experiments, soldiers tried to micromanage their drones and ground robots, slowing their reaction times and restricting their tactics. Can AIs earn troops' trust?

Preston Dunlap: 'A Thousand Kill Chains In Your Pocket' In part three of our exclusive video interview, Preston Dunlap chats about the remarkable idea of a CAOC in a tablet and how it can help strengthen and make more flexible the kill chain.

It's Open Architectures For ALL New Weapons As JROC Sets JADC2 Requirements Joint All-Domain Command and Control "will fundamentally change how we fight as a as a nation, and will change how we organize, train and equip," Air Force director of operational capabilities Maj. Gen. Dawn Dunlop says.

Making DoD Security Operations Centers More Effective: Security Automation [Sponsored] Security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) software frees DoD analysts to apply cognitive skills to actually fixing problems.

Project Rainmaker: Army Weaves 'Data Fabric' To Link Joint Networks The Pentagon's grand plans for Joint All Domain Command & Control require translating masses of data across incompatible systems. "Unless you get the underpinnings of a foundational data fabric," Maj. Gen. Peter Gallagher told me, "it will never happen."

NGAD Strategy Faces Hill Headwinds "The business case is a naïve bet on out-year operating cost savings – that's an act the Hill has seen before, and it never pays off," independent analyst Rebecca Grant says of the Digital Century Series concept.

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