Article Date: Apr/11/2024 Summary: The Department of the Air Force is increasing its reliance on space capabilities, but continuing resolutions and other budget limitations are affecting investments in the Space Force, officials said Author: Josh Luckenbaugh ..read more

Article Date: Apr/11/2024 Summary: The Space Force and Defense Innovation Unit on April 11 awarded contracts to Rocket Lab and True Anomaly for their upcoming tactically responsive space mission called Victus Haze. Author: Josh Luckenbaugh ..read more

Article Date: Apr/12/2024 Summary: It’s sometimes a fun parlor game at defense trade shows to see who did and didn’t show up and why. Author: Stew Magnuson ..read more

Article Date: Apr/12/2024 Summary: Belgian defense company John Cockerill has developed a prototype of a sleek, light fighting vehicle that can fire at targets while moving at 70 miles per hour. Author: Stew Magnuson ..read more

Article Date: Apr/12/2024 Summary: In addition to U.S. Special Operations Command’s development efforts to optimize the lethality of traditional sniper calibers like the .300 Winchester Magnum or newer .300 and .338 Norma Magnum designs, command developers have exhibited a growing embrace of the 6.5 mm Creedmoor round. Author: Scott R. Gourley ..read more

Article Date: Apr/09/2024 Summary: COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado — The head of U.S. Space Command announced a series of efforts to ensure the organization has the necessary combat capabilities to fight a potential conflict in the domain by 2027. Author: Josh Luckenbaugh ..read more

Article Date: Apr/09/2024 Summary: NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — With the report that many of the Navy’s biggest shipbuilding programs are years behind schedule, the service is working to improve communication with shipbuilders and encourage advanced procurement to address the delays, Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro said. Author: Allyson Park ..read more

Article Date: Apr/09/2024 Summary: SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — As NATO shifts to address a changing security environment reflected in its 2022 Strategic Concept, it is also rethinking its approach to partners, and the organization announced a new framework that will allow partner forces to augment existing NATO forces. Author: Laura Heckmann ..read more

Article Date: Apr/10/2024 Summary: COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado — The National Reconnaissance Office will kick off its transition from large, exquisite satellites to a proliferation of smaller systems this year, one of the office’s top officials said April 9. Proliferation has become a key tenet as the U.S. military builds out its space architectures. Constellations of many smaller satellites are seen as more resilient than a lesser amount of larger systems that would give adversaries a concise list of targets to attack. The Space Force’s Space Development Agency has begun putting into orbit its ..read more

Article Date: Apr/09/2024 Summary: NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — In today’s “data-rich” environment, the Navy is using data as a strategic fleet asset, Rear Adm. Ron Piret, commander of Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, said April 9. Author: Allyson Park ..read more