Tag: Defense

(Defense) Special Operations team in Pacific will confront Chinese information campaigns (Defense News)

Mark Pomerleau U.S. Special Operations Command created a task force in the Pacific region to work with allies there to thwart China’s information operations, the...

(Defense) Space Force begins loaning anti-jamming GPS tech to allies (Defense News)

Nathan Strout The U.S. Space Force created a three-year arrangement for allies to borrow and test equipment for navigation that uses a new GPS signal...

(Defense) Battling climate change starts with military action (Defense News)

Cmdr. Benjamin Simon The effects of climate change are all around. They can be seen by the Gulf Coast bracing for seven named storms in 2020; wildfires...

(Defense) What should become of the Zumwalt class? The US Navy has some big ideas (Defense News)

David B. Larter The U.S. Navy is exploring a major ship alteration for its three stealth destroyers that would further drive up the cost of the platform...

(Defense) Agreement in hand, German-Norwegian submarine scheme awaits funding decision (Defense News)

Sebastian Sprenger Germany, Norway and ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems have agreed on technical and contractual details for their multibillion-dollar submarine program, readying the deal for a...

(Defense) US, Turkey remain divided over purchase of Russia’s S-400s (Defense News)

Top U.S. and Turkish diplomats failed on Wednesday to overcome sharp differences over Turkey’s purchase of an advanced Russian air defense system, which Washington...

(Defense) US provides 29 Humvees to bolster Albanian army capability (Defense News)

The United States has provided 29 new Humvees to bolster Albania’s military capabilities ahead of military exercises in southeastern Europe, the Balkan nation’s Defense...

(Defense/Cybersecurity) ‘Accelerate change or lose’: Applying Gen. Brown’s action orders to cyberspace education and training (Defense News)

Lt. Col Steven Skipper Following the SolarWinds intrusion, a growing symphony of cyberspace and intelligence agencies continue to earnestly scour their networks, carefully examining cascading...

(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...

(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...

(Defense) Portable nuclear reactor project moves forward at Pentagon (Defense News)

Aaron Mehta The Pentagon has selected two companies to move forward with developing small, portable nuclear reactors for military use in the field. https://www.defensenews.com/smr/energy-and-environment/2021/03/23/portable-nuclear-reactor-project-moves-forward-at-pentagon/