Global Defense Market
3/31/2023
GEELONG, Australia — Four years ago at Avalon — The Australian Air Show — Boeing’s local affiliate unveiled a mockup of an unmanned jet fighter with the goal that it would be d…
Warfare
3/31/2023
Warfare is no longer focused solely on the destruction of enemy forces. With today’s rapid technological advancements, success is predicated on the ability to disrupt, degrade, deceive and destr…
International
3/30/2023
GEELONG, Australia — The announcement that the Australian government had finalized a deal to purchase 29 AH-64E Apache attack helicopters from U.S. aviation giant Boeing brought the nation&rsquo…
Space
3/29/2023
The Space Development Agency is set to launch its first batch of missile-tracking satellites on March 30, which will be a milestone for the four-year-old agency tasked with speeding up the delivery of…
Expeditionary Warfare
3/29/2023
The possibility of conflict in the Indo-Pacific and a rapidly evolving technological landscape have reshaped the nature of expeditionary warfare, but the Navy and Marine Corps have differing views on …
Global Defense Market
3/28/2023
GEELONG, Australia — An Australian startup is offering a “passive” radar system that can detect flying objects kilometers away without giving away warfighters’ positions. Sile…
Air Power
3/27/2023
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has kicked off a program to develop a runway-independent X-plane for Special Operations Command. The Speed and Runway Independent Technologies, or SPRINT…
Army News
3/27/2023
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Army is modernizing its watercraft to ensure the service’s combat systems and vehicles get where they need to go in austere, coastal environments. In October, the Arm…
Global Defense Market
3/24/2023
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Under the blazing mid-afternoon sun of the United Arab Emirates, a tactical military vehicle emerges into view and the driver speeds across a rugged dirt road, …
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
3/24/2023
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, much debate has centered on whether the conflict represents conventional warfare or some revolutionary type of contest. An article in the New Yorker in March…
Budget
3/23/2023
The government needs to step up and step in if the industrial base is going to improve its ability to surge weapons and ammunition in times of crisis, an Army official said. The need to handle &ldquo…
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
3/23/2023
In contrast to the land-based, high-intensity artillery battles and trench warfare currently raging in eastern Ukraine, the potential fight with the People’s Republic of China will be primarily …
Missile Defense
3/21/2023
FORT SILL, Oklahoma — A low rumble gradually replaces the howl of the wind battering the golden grass and brush of the Oklahoma plains. A convoy of nine hulking Army vehicles emerges from a dirt…
Air Power
3/21/2023
The Air Force must ramp up the production of its next-generation B-21 Raider strategic bombers as quickly as possible in order to rebuild the United States’ long-range strike advantage, accordin…
Emerging Technologies
3/21/2023
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Israel-based Rafael Advanced Defense Systems debuted its high-energy laser weapon system that will augment Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system for more …
Maritime Security
3/20/2023
A rising tide lifts all boats,” is an aphorism President John F. Kennedy frequently used in speeches to describe his economic policies. It refers to policies or programs that might be targeted a…
Army News
3/20/2023
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — The Army will soon receive the “drop one” production qualification test package for its 6.8mm Next Generation Squad Weapons. The package, which will be delivered …
Air Force News
3/20/2023
AURORA, Colorado — Air Force officials are hoping to accelerate the production process for E-7A battle management and command and control aircraft, but it will be difficult to deliver the plane …
Emerging Technologies
3/17/2023
The traditional means of making metal parts by casting and forging has served humankind well for the past 2,600 years or so, but additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, is the future, at le…
Air Power
3/16/2023
CHIBA, Japan — A jet fighter Japan, Italy and the United Kingdom are jointly developing maybe constructed out of composites and put together using an adhesive bond. Japan, the United Kingd…
Navy News
3/16/2023
The Navy is requesting a $5.8 billion investment in Columbia-class submarines in its fiscal year 2024 budget request to Congress, which includes the first of two increments of funding for the second s…
Global Defense Market
3/16/2023
CHIBA, Japan — A Japanese company that once specialized in sewing together ceremonial kimonos is now making fabric that can counter electronic warfare energy. Mitsufuji Corp., based in Kyo…
Space
3/16/2023
ARLINGTON, VA – Gen. John W. "Jay" Raymond (Ret), Chief of Space Operations, United States Space Force, is the 2023 recipient of NDIA’s Dwight D. Eisenhower Award, the National Defense Ind…
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
3/15/2023
CHIBA, Japan — A Japanese company is marketing a small- and medium-sized unmanned aerial float plane. Space Entertainment Laboratory is offering its Hamadori Seaplane Unmanned Aerial Vehic…
