Digital Battlespace
PREMIUM: USN has 2023 delivery date in mind for Project Overmatch
The USN wants to accelerate the rollout of a new fleet architecture using AI and manned-unmanned teaming to enable distributed maritime operations.
Defence Notes
PREMIUM: Confident MDA accelerates hypersonic defence effort
Glide Phase Interceptor could be fielded by the end of this decade as a DoD programme of record, if industry response is positive.
Military Logistics
PREMIUM: Boeing strives to climb out of Pegasus money pit
Head of Air Mobility Command says USAF is ‘making lemonade out of lemons’ as KC-46A programme attempts to surmount its problems by 2023-2024.
Land Warfare
PREMIUM: OMFV inches towards five-way contest
Industry holds its breath for Phase 2 RfP (specifically for digital designs) on 18 December
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Digital Battlespace
PREMIUM: Pentagon takes meaningful steps towards a viable military Internet of Things
4th December 2020
Efforts continue to place Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) firmly in the Pentagon's long-term acquisition plans.
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Land Warfare
PREMIUM: US Army will adapt USN missiles to plug capability gap
19th November 2020
US Army intends to use Tomahawk and SM-6 to meet a key mid-range missile priority
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Naval Warfare
PREMIUM: Columbia-class construction deal marks a watershed for USN
11th November 2020
Exception to usual budgeting rules allows work to proceed on first pair of new SSBNs – but will there be implications for other USN modernisation programmes?
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Naval Warfare
PREMIUM: Esper hails shipbuilding study but budgetary questions remain
22nd September 2020
US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has called for higher spending on shipbuilding, in order to support what he described as a ‘game-changer’ for fleet ...
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Air Warfare
PREMIUM: USAF seeks answer to ‘money question’ after first NGAD prototype flight
17th September 2020
The USAF has secretly flown a full-scale prototype of a Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) aircraft, developed and built using digital design techniques and technologies. The service ...
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Land Warfare
PREMIUM: Latest IBCS tests give US Army hope for game-changing air defence
31st August 2020
A US army air and missile defence system, which has struggled in development for more than a decade, knocked down ballistic and cruise missile targets ...
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Naval Warfare
PREMIUM: Naval BMD could lose the human touch
7th July 2020
The US is exploring a new platform for ballistic missile defence (BMD), after the Pentagon floated the idea of using unmanned surface ships. This concept ...
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Naval Warfare
PREMIUM: Pentagon recalibrates USN fleet numbers but lacks updated force structure assessment
26th June 2020
US shipbuilders and Congress are anxiously awaiting details of the USN’s 30-year shipbuilding plan, which is already running five months late. This blueprint will propel ...
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Defence Notes
PREMIUM: Senate panel authorises defence spending at Trump-requested level
13th June 2020
The Senate Armed Services Committee on 11 June approved its mark-up of the Pentagon’s FY2021 defence policy bill, authorising $740 billion for national defence spending ...
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Military Logistics
PREMIUM: Navy eyes pair of new ship types to support USMC Force Design 2030
11th June 2020
The USN is moving ahead with plans for a Light Amphibious Warship (LAW) and a Next-Generation Logistics Ship (NGLS) as it looks at ways of ...
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Land Warfare
PREMIUM: US begins NGI competition in major overhaul of homeland defence
22nd May 2020
The Pentagon has launched a competition for a Next Generation Interceptor (NGI), as an ambitious project to overhaul the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system in the ...
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Defence Notes
PREMIUM: COVID-19 wallops US acquisition projects and threatens future spending
19th May 2020
The US DoD is bracing for a potential three-month slip to the schedules of its big-ticket weapons portfolio in the wake of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. ...
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Naval Warfare
PREMIUM: USN eyes potential to arm DDG-1000 with advanced weaponry
10th May 2020
After $23 billion in sunk costs, more than two decades of development and nearly four years after commissioning, the USN in April took formal delivery ...
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Naval Warfare
PREMIUM: USN hovercraft programme steers past rocky waters
5th May 2020
The Ship-to-Shore Connector (SSC) programme cleared a major hurdle in April, when the USN awarded Textron a $386 million contract for a new batch of ...
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Air Warfare
PREMIUM: USAF expands hypersonic efforts with plans for another prototype
4th May 2020
The USAF has announced plans to commence a hypersonic cruise missile prototype programme on behalf of the DoD, in an effort to foster a scramjet ...
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Air Warfare
PREMIUM: USAF eyes small flying car fleet by 2030
1st May 2020
The USAF has launched a campaign to enter the electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) market, setting a goal to have 30 flying cars in ...
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Air Warfare
PREMIUM: US eyes B-1 for prototype air-launched hypersonic strike capability
27th April 2020
The USAF plans to upgrade B-1 Lancer bombers (pictured) to carry substantial loads of some of the most advanced long-range munitions in the US inventory, ...
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Land Warfare
PREMIUM: New OMFV plan seeks five-way contest to replace Bradley
20th April 2020
The US Army has unveiled details of its new competition for developing an Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV), including plans to entice foreign industry participation ...
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Naval Warfare
PREMIUM: Raytheon nets MDA’s first-ever multiyear contract
3rd April 2020
Raytheon has locked in $2.1 billion in orders for Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IB interceptors, in a watershed development that marks the first time the ...
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Defence Notes
PREMIUM: Flight tests are central for US in hypersonic arms race
18th March 2020
The US military is preparing a crucial flight test of a hypersonic weapon this spring, as part of a ramped-up campaign to develop and field ...
