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Boeing’s total year end charges of $4.9 billion on its troubled portfolio of fixed price weapons contracts is the largest-ever loss for its defense unit, up from losses of $4.4 billion in 2022 ..read more
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Ahead of Trump’s Monday inauguration, several high-profile members of the Defense Business Board and Defense Innovation Board voluntarily stepped aside ..read more
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“We really don’t have … the in-house capabilities to answer all the questions,” the Pentagon’s deputy director for advanced computing, Roy Campbell, told Breaking Defense. “We’re really going to have to ‘phone out’ to all these assets” that the private sector plans to build ..read more
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[Sponsored] Maneuver formations face multifaceted threats that include kinetic force-on-force and non-kinetic effects such as electronic warfare ..read more
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“In a conflict between NATO and Russia, the United States should be prepared to face an adversary that not only possesses advanced space and counterspace capabilities but has also learned lessons during the invasion of Ukraine about how to target Western space assets most effectively,” finds a new Space Force-commissioned study ..read more
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Platforms are expected to enter service by the end of 2030 with a first batch of Boxers comprising 540 platforms, RBSL officials confirmed to Breaking Defense ..read more
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The Navy’s budget documents indicate two more Independence-class Littoral Combat Ships are slated to get the upgrade this year ..read more
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Pentagon leaders have not yet had to pull troops away from other missions outside of the US for this one or trade future mission readiness, the military official added, but acknowledged that could become a factor going forward ..read more
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According to several sources involved, Tournear allegedly stepped afoul of DoD contracting procedures when awarding two prototype agreements worth approximately $424 million ..read more
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The first deliveries are expected later this year as part of a multi-year deal for what Shield AI says is the first ship-launched intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platform for the Japanese navy ..read more