The Biden administration plans to move ahead on discussions with allies and partners about establishing rules of the road for systems in space. On Dec. 7 last year, the United Nations General Assembly passed A/Res/75/36, a resolution sponsored by the United Kingdom and backed by the United States, ...
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Lockheed Martin [LMT] is pushing full steam ahead on its scalable AN/SPY-7 S-band gallium nitride-based radar in four countries and boasted its superiority to the Raytheon Technologies [RTX] AN/SPY-6 radar in a recent interview. SPY-7 is based on the Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR), ...
The U.S. Air Force has resolved two of the six Category I deficiencies for the Boeing [BA] KC-46 tanker, the commander of Air Mobility Command (AMC), Air Force Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost, said on Feb. 1. "We just released as of Friday night, we went from six Cat I deficiencies down to four Category ...
The Defense Department’s weapons tester did not approve the new Constellation-class (FFG-62) frigate’s approved the anti-air warfare (AAW) test strategy in the overall testing plan because it is "not adequate to determine the operational effectiveness," according to an annual 2020 report. In ...
Eight days after the U.S. Air Force awarded Boeing [BA] a $1.7 billion contract for 12 KC-46s in Lot Six of the production line, the service on Jan. 20 bought 15 more tankers in Lot Seven for $2.1 billion. The Jan. 20 announcement by DoD said that the Air Force exercised an option for the purchase ...
Construction of the first new Constellation-class guided missile frigate, FFG-62, is set to start later this year, the Navy’s program manager said last week. Shipbuilder Fincantieri Marinette Marine plans to start lead ship fabrication in late summer or early fall 2021, after it completes detail ...
Mayorkas Up. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Tuesday morning will host its first hearing of the year as it considers the nomination of Alejandro Mayorkas to be the Secretary of Homeland Security. Mayorkas is a veteran of the Department of Homeland Security, having ...
The Navy is trying to shift Aegis Ashore missile defense missions from the Navy to the Army, but the latter has not agreed to take the mission yet. Speaking at the virtual Surface Navy Association symposium on Monday, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday argued to get the Navy to focus on ...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Boeing [BA] a nearly $1.7 billion contract for 12 KC-46 tankers in Lot Six of the production run of the aircraft, the Pentagon said on Jan. 12. Acting as cell towers to relay data between the cloud and front-line forces in future conflicts, refueling tankers are to ...
The Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) this week said the Navy is learning from its mistakes in the past in how to build new ships while arguing for divesting from older ships. The Navy must deliver naval power properly and has no time to waste in fielding new capabilities because “our actions in ...