The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and U.S. Navy successfully intercepted an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM)-type target with a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA missile over the Pacific Ocean on Nov. 16. The test, designated Flight Test Aegis Weapon System-44 (FTM-44), had an ...
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Secretary of the Navy Kenneth Braithwaite on Tuesday said he wants to stand up a new numbered fleet, U.S. 1st Fleet, at the border of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Braithwaite said while he has not yet discussed this with the new Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, “I’ve crossed ...
Checkpoint Boost. Senate appropriators in their version of the fiscal year 2021 Homeland Security Appropriations Bill recommend a handsome plus-up to the Transportation Security Administration’s request for checkpoint computed tomography (CT), providing $140 million, $111.1 million more than ...
IDSS Says First to Achieve TSA’s Level 1 Certification for Checkpoint Scanning Integrated Defense and Security Solutions (IDSS) says the Transportation Security Administration has certified the company’s DETECT 1000 computed tomography (CT) checkpoint baggage scanner to Level 1 Advanced ...
As the Boeing [BA] KC-46A tanker program faces DoD procurement challenges, including timely resolution of six critical Category 1 deficiencies, the aircraft is getting a shot in the arm from overseas sales. On Oct. 29, the U.S. Air Force awarded Boeing a $342.1 million contract for the delivery to ...
The private equity firm Arlington Capital Partners on Thursday said it has formed a new defense company, BlueHalo, through the acquisition of five other defense companies. On its website, BlueHalo says it is “purpose-built” to provide capabilities in space superiority, directed energy, missile ...
AE Industrial Partners on Monday said it has acquired PCI, a provider of cyber security, computer network operations, data analytics and cloud solutions to the intelligence community, defense customers and other federal agencies. Terms of the deal were not included. PCI, which is based in Columbia, ...
Amid the public whipsaw of New START nuclear-arms negotiations between Washington and Moscow, Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, offered to limit deployment of land-based intermediate range missiles near the European border, media reported. Early Monday morning, Washington time, a few Russian ...
The Pentagon has two new initiatives to bolster international partnerships for the shift toward great power competition with China and Russia, including a new plan for tracking development of security cooperation efforts and taking a more “strategic enterprise approach” to foreign military ...
Recent successful demonstrations of data sharing between different types of weapon systems and a contract win to develop a new space-based tactical communications system that will eventually help tie together troops and weapons systems in the sea, air and land domains show how fifth generation ...