Tag: Defense

Northrop Grumman has developed a next-generation signals intelligence architecture (Mark Pomerlau, Defense News)

Northrop Grumman executives say the company is now offering a next-generation signals intelligence architecture that has won at least one contract. Bill Thompson, director of...

Want innovation in space? Support arms control (Jessica West, ORF)

Arms control and innovation seem like odd bedfellows. But maybe not as much as you’d think. Instead of seeing emerging technology as a challenge...

Erdogan says US, not Turkey, proposed F-16 sale (Al Monitor)

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday that the United States had offered to sell dozens of F-16 fighter jets and modernization kits to...

Why Indonesia should embrace AUKUS (Arrizal Jaknanihan, East Asia Forum)

The announcement of AUKUS — a trilateral security pact between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States — sparked concern over escalating rivalry...

Australia’s submarine U-turn (Richard Brabin-Smith, East Asia Forum)

On 15 September 2021, the Australian government formally announced that it was abandoning French Attack-class conventional submarines in favour of nuclear propulsion through AUKUS....

Turkey: US proposed to sell it F-16 fighters (Burak Ege Bekdil, Defense News)

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Oct. 17 the United States has proposed the sale of a batch of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey...

Navy to Prototype Fish-Inspired, Autonomous Robots with ‘Self-Healing’ Parts (Brandi Vincent, Nextgov)

U.S. Navy officials are developing next-generation autonomous underwater robots that generate virtually no radiated noise while navigating the ocean. To make the actuators—or components that...

Army Gets Strategic About Going Digital (Brandi Vincent, Defense One)

The newly crafted Army Digital Transformation Strategy, or ADTS, marks a key component of the branch’s overarching modernization efforts that is meant to reform...

Air Force research lab signs agreement with ‘gas-stations-in-space’ company (Nathan Strout, Defense News)

The Air Force Research Laboratory signed a research agreement with a company pioneering orbital refueling stations for spacecraft, signaling the military’s interest in using...

KC-46 gets new refueling approvals for TRANSCOM missions (Stephen Losey, Defense News)

The KC-46 Pegasus is now able to refuel the Air Force’s fourth-generation fighter jets during missions for U.S. Transportation Command, expanding the service’s air...

What To Expect When You’re Expecting A National Defense Strategy (Thomas Spoehr, Bradley Bowman, Bryan Clark, Mackenzie Eaglen, Foundation for Defense of Democracies)

In July, Rear Adm. Mike Studeman, director of intelligence for U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, warned that “it’s only a matter of time” until China resorts to military...

Armored Troop Carrier Project to Link Baltic Sea Regional Partners (Olevs Nikers, The Jamestown Foundation)

In late summer, Latvia and Finland officially agreed on a deal for Riga to purchase more than 200 armored personnel carriers (APC) developed by...

New US Navy task group taps destroyers to focus on countering Russian undersea threat (Diana Stancy Correll and Megan Eckstein, Defense News)

The Navy is organizing East Coast destroyers to better protect the homeland from Russian threats — specifically those undersea — as part of a...

New UK space strategy sets the stage for defense investments (Andrew Chuter, Defense News)

Britain gave a broad view of where the country is heading in the defense space sector as it launched a national space strategy Sept....

FC-31 stealth fighter, GJ-11 stealth attack drone that belong to China’s “20” aircraft family on display at Airshow (Global Times)

A model of a J-20 stealth fighter jet is on display at the exhibition stand of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), as...

Racial Division, Troops’ Role in Protests Has Hurt Minority Recruiting, Air Force Says (Tara Copp, Defense One)

U.S. Air Force basic military graduation Apr. 16, 2020, at the 320th Training Squadron’s Airman Training Complex on Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. U.S. AIR...