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(Space) Bluestaq wins $280 million contract for space situational awareness library (Defense News)

Nathan Strout The General Services Administration awarded Bluestaq a $280 million contract to continue work on the U.S. Space Force’s library of space object data,...

(Defense) France, Italy update their joint air-defense weapon for faster missiles (Defense News)

Christina Mackenzie France and Italy have announced they are cooperating on a new generation of the SAMP/T anti-air system they developed in the early years...

(USA) The Pentagon could help improve resilience of the US electric grid (Defense News)

Beth Lachman and Aimee Curtright The recent, massive blackouts in Texas have revealed serious technical and market failures that have cost Texans dearly in terms of human suffering and...

(Defense) US failed to collect reimbursements from Afghanistan coalition partners for years, IG finds (Defense News)

Aaron Mehta For four years, the Pentagon failed to charge partner nations for use of American rotary-wing aircraft in Afghanistan, and the department has no...

(Defense) Overmatch is fleeting: How the US Army’s multidomain task force will help the military remain dominant (Defense News)

Jen Judson The U.S. Army’s multidomain task force might have started out as an experimental unit, but a new plan to operationalize it puts the unit front and...

(Defense) Czech Air Force orders missile warning systems for its Mi-17 helos (Defense News)

Seth J. Frantzman Israel’s Bird Aerosystems will provide the Czech Air Force with missile warning technology for its Mi-17 helicopters, the company announced March 22. https://www.defensenews.com/industry/2021/03/24/czech-air-force-orders-missile-warning-systems-for-its-mi-17-helos/

(Defense) Defense official: US must invest more in innovation to compete with China (Defense News)

Andrew Eversden The slowing of federal spending on research and development means the U.S. needs to capture innovation from the commercial market, a top Defense...

(Defense) Here’s who will compete head-to-head to build the next homeland missile defense interceptor (Defense News)

Jen Judson The Pentagon has selected Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman to go head-to-head in a competition to provide a next-generation interceptor to replace the ground-based...

(Defense) New UK naval shipbuilding strategy prizes keeping foreign yards out (Defense News)

Andrew Chuter Naval shipbuilding has turned out to be among the winners in a reshaping of the British defense industrial strategy rolled out by the...

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