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SecDef: R&D Spending To Skyrocket In '22 Budget President Biden's first defense budget "biases the future, slightly," over the present, but Gen. Mark Milley says he doesn't see any one service taking precedence over another in the divvying up of money.

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)…

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.

Who's Who in Defense: Joe Courtney, Chairman, HASC Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee Courtney chairs the House Armed Services Subcommittee that directs Navy and Marine Corps acquisition programs.

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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Navy Makes $554M Commitment To Second Frigate, USS Congress By using proven technology, the frigate program is trying to prevent the kind of high-tech teething troubles that bedeviled the Ford-class carrier and Littoral Combat Ships.

EXCLUSIVE: UAE Boosts Local Shipbuilder With $982M Patrol Ships Deal The deal reinforces the company's commitment to developing a sustainable knowledge and innovation-based economy in line with the UAE's Vision 2030, CEO of Abu Dhabi Ship Building told Breaking Defense.

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AF Demos C2 Networking Tech To Link Services, Allies At Astral Knight 21

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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.

China Already Outspends US Military? Discuss Bill Greenwalt worked hand in glove with the late Sen. Sen. McCain as he tried — and repeatedly failed — to cleanse the defense budget of huge amounts of what isn't really defense spending — cancer research, health care, grocery stores and the list goes on and on. If you strip this from the defense…

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.

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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.

Ramjet Shells Could Triple Artillery Range The Army's ERAMS program will soon announce development contracts for howitzer shells capable of firing over 100 km (62 miles) to counter Russian and Chinese artillery.

Learn From Gaza, Prepare For Hezbollah If you thought the recently concluded Gaza conflict was bad, a war with Lebanese Hezbollah would be much worse, involving 100,000 more rockets, many with longer ranges.

Army Sat Ops Brigade Transfers To Space Force: Karbler "Now we're just really working out the details for the timing that that will happen, and how frankly how it will happen," Lt. Gen. Daniel Karbler, Army SMDC commander, says.

Army: Proposals For Cruise Missile Killer Due June 4 In August, the Army will pick a single vendor to build the Indirect Fire Protection Capability (IFPC), focused on countering cruise missiles and larger drones. Later upgrades will add lasers and counter-rocket capability.

US Talks With Israel About Buying More Iron Dome Systems "The fact that the Iron Dome intercepted big salvos of rockets launched from Gaza as well as armed drones is already creating big interest in the channels between the Israeli and the American defense ministries," a defense source told BD.

Paratroopers Pioneer New Army Network, Tactics New radios offer dramatically greater range, clarity, & data — once soldiers and leaders figure out how best to use them.

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Buy Big F-35 Fleet To Lower Program Costs: SecAF Nominee Kendall

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Buy Big F-35 Fleet To Lower Program Costs: SecAF Nominee Kendall "I know there's an issue with the total number that's been on the table for some years," Frank Kendall said. "What we should really be working on most is getting the cost down and keeping the procurement at a rate that makes sense."

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.

Who's Who in Defense: Robert Wittman, Ranking Member, HASC Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee Ranking Member—HASC Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces Rep. Robert Wittman, R-Virginia   Responsibilities Wittman, former chair of the House Armed Services seapower and projection forces subcommittee, is ranking member of that same panel, which directs Navy and Marine Corps acquisition programs connected with shipbuilding and conversion, ship- and submarine-launched weapons, as well as a range…

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.

Air Force Department 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, deputy PEO Digital, says.

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ABMS Grows Up: Air Force Shifts Focus To Delivering Kit A new pod-based comms system for the KC-46, enabling it to serve as a 'translator' for the incompatible radio systems of the F-22 and F-35, will be fielded in the last quarter of fiscal 2022.

Space Organizations Partner To Boost Cybersecurity "We don't have a parochial view, thinking that because [a cyber incident] happened over there [in that industry], it can't happen here [in the space industry]," AIAA's Lee says.

Exclusive: DARPA 'Likely' To Demo Only 2 Blackjack Payloads "We really focused on payloads that had tactical utility, because they were an underserved market," said Blackjack program manager Stephen Forbes.

Paratroopers Pioneer New Army Network, Tactics New radios offer dramatically greater range, clarity, & data — once soldiers and leaders figure out how best to use them.

SOCOM Leaders Say 'Digital Spectrum' Key To Next Fight "The future will be won by those who dominate the full digital spectrum,"  Lt. Gen. Francis Beaudette, commander of Army Special Operations Command, says. "It will be as important as seizing and holding terrain."

Hill Presses For Better Cyber Responses, More Info Sharing Colonial Pipeline "refused" to share details of ransomware payment with Congress. "Our constituents are on the front lines of these [cyber]attacks, and yet they don't know what their country is doing to respond," Rep. Slotkin said.

Special Ops Undergoing Historic Transformation, AFSOC Says "The SOF that we have is not the SOF we will need" for the future, head of Air Force Special Ops Command, Lt. Gen. James Slife, warned today.

Army Cyber Pivots To Pacific: Fogarty "Wherever [Army forces] are deployed, particularly those in Europe and the Pacific, they're under just constant, constant assault," Lt. Gen. Stephen Fogarty, chief of Army Cyber Command, says.

Egyptian Deal For Rafale Fighters Boosts Data Sharing Egyptian sources tell Breaking Defense that this may not be the last Rafale purchase. Egypt is now eying the Rafale F4. "We are looking to increase the (overall) number to 72 or 100 units, depending on Egypt's financial capacity."

How China's Thinking About The Next War The PLA Navy (PLAN) and PLA Air Force (PLAAF) are now the world's largest, but China's military modernization is not only focused on equipment. The PRC appears to be  developing new strategies and doctrines. The PLA began shifting in the 1990s from preparing to fight "local wars under modern, high-tech conditions" to "local wars under…

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