U.S. Army ‘Ground-Fires’ Navy SM-6 & Tomahawk Missiles
Osborn, Warrior Maven The Army is ground-firing combat-tested Navy SM-6 and Tomahawk attack weapons in close coordination with the Navy.
Day: September 4, 2023
The Israeli 143d Armored Division at the Suez Canal, 1973
Nathan Jennings, MCUP Abstract: The performance of the Israeli 143d Reserve Armored Division in the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, also known as the Yom Kippur War, provides a…
Report to Congress on Gerald R. Ford Aircraft Carrier Program
CRS From the report
The aircraft carriers CVN-78, CVN-79, CVN-80, and CVN-81 are the first four ships in the Navy’s new Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) class of nuclear-powered aircraft…
Inside the DoD’s Trusted AI and Autonomy Tech Review
B. Vincent, DefenseScoop More than 200 attendees from government, industry and academia participated in a three-day conference hosted by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for…
Space Development Agency Launches 13 Satellites on SpaceX Rocket
DefNews WASHINGTON — The Space Development Agency launched its second batch of data transport and missile tracking satellites Sept. 2, laying the foundation for a constellation that will…
U.S. Navy Developing Service-Centric ICAM Capability
Carlo Munoz, Jane’s Information technology (IT) and network security specialists with the U.S. Navy (USN) are in the midst of developing and testing a new identity, credential, and access…
Going All In on Modernizing Weapon Systems
Mike Weigand, C4ISRNET In the fifteen months since Putin’s unprovoked and illegal invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainian armed forces have been engaged in what
U.S. Army Commits Over $700M in AMPV and Bradley Armour Acquisition
AT Contracts are the latest in series of multi-year planning deals to modernise the U.S. Army’s mechanised infantry capabilities, and potentially support Ukraine’s and requirements.
SMART ePANTS: US intel invests heavily in ‘spy pants, undergarments’
The federal government has allocated a minimum of $22 million to develop ‘smart’ clothing with surveillance and data collection capabilities, an initiative referred to as SMART ePANTS (Smart Electrically Powered and Networked Textile Systems). This pro…