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2d ago
Article Date: Apr/22/2024
Summary: During operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. military had the luxury of large bases near and in theater to fly in troops and supplies and could drive large convoys across land routes through relatively friendly countries. However, a conflict in the Indo-Pacific against a peer adversary will require a different approach to logistics.
Author: Sean Carberry ..read more
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2d ago
Article Date: Apr/23/2024
Summary: The Army’s mobile counter-drone program is upgrading by downsizing with a new increment that will move the system from two vehicles into a single Stryker armored fighting vehicle.
Author: Laura Heckmann ..read more
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5d ago
Article Date: Apr/19/2024
Summary: A centennial anniversary is a time to glory in one’s prolonged survival, to take pride in one’s sustained accomplishments and to look ahead to the prospects of extending those accomplishments over perhaps another century.
Author: Gregory D. Foster ..read more
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5d ago
Article Date: Apr/19/2024
Summary: With an increasing number of commercial satellites, military constellations and all their data flowing through space, government and industry operators said they are looking to artificial intelligence to help them handle ever-more complex missions.
Author: Allyson Park ..read more
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1w ago
Article Date: Apr/15/2024
Summary: An independent commission tasked with identifying ways the Defense Department can reform its resourcing practices recently released its final report. Commission officials and experts agreed that implementing its 28 recommendations will require the department and Congress to do something that has become increasingly difficult: work together.
Author: Josh Luckenbaugh ..read more
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1w ago
Article Date: Apr/15/2024
Summary: Swedish contractor Saab recently launched a deployable digital tower designed for air traffic management, which the company believes can also serve a role in the increasingly important counter-drone fight.
Author: Josh Luckenbaugh ..read more
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1w ago
Article Date: Apr/16/2024
Summary: While the Defense Department dialed back some procurement goals in fiscal year 2025 to limbo under the $850 billion bar Congress set in the Fiscal Responsibility Act, department officials said the request to procure only one Virginia-class submarine was a “management decision.”
Author: Sean Carberry ..read more
National Defense | Blog
1w ago
Article Date: Apr/16/2024
Summary: WASHINGTON, D.C. — While Israel, the United States and other allies defeated nearly all the incoming missiles, rockets and drones Iran launched in an unprecedented attack April 13, the United States has gaps in its missile defense capabilities that need immediate attention, senior officials said.
Author: Sean Carberry ..read more
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1w ago
Article Date: Apr/18/2024
Summary: Only days before the service’s big show sponsored by the Navy League, a devastating report was released spelling out how the Navy had managed to put each of its four major shipbuilding programs years behind schedule.
Author: Stew Magnuson ..read more