Navy Unveils Surprise Plan For Littoral Combat Ships

Navy Unveils Surprise Plan For Littoral Combat Ships
Navy Unveils Surprise Plan For Littoral Combat Ships

Every LCS will be equipped with the new Naval Strike Missile as well as either anti-submarine or anti-mine capabilities within 18 months, CNO Adm. Michael Gilday told the HAC-D today.

Biden Nominates Shyu To Lead Weapons Transformation

Biden Nominates Shyu To Lead Weapons Transformation
Biden Nominates Shyu To Lead Weapons Transformation

If confirmed, Shyu and Brown will come into the Pentagon in the midst of what civilian leaders promise is a major shift: divesting old, Cold War-era equipment for new generations of AI-enabled weapons, unmanned systems, and hypersonic missiles.

France And EU Launch Strategic Reviews: China As ‘Systemic’ Rival

France And EU Launch Strategic Reviews: China As ‘Systemic’ Rival
France And EU Launch Strategic Reviews: China As ‘Systemic’ Rival

How to deal with the Chinese threat will probably be one of the most difficult questions for the European Union to address as it executes its first-ever strategic review, to be published in 2022 and called ‘’Strategic Compass.’

OMFV: Army’s Bradley Replacement Faces Hill, DoD Skeptics

OMFV: Army’s Bradley Replacement Faces Hill, DoD Skeptics
OMFV: Army’s Bradley Replacement Faces Hill, DoD Skeptics

Industry is excited about the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle. Congress and the Biden Administration are a harder sell.

DoD Space Threat Intel Not Good Enough

DoD Space Threat Intel Not Good Enough
DoD Space Threat Intel Not Good Enough

“While our adversaries have rapidly advanced a great spectrum of threats … that are intended to defeat US space capabilities, we’re only beginning to get our act together,” said Jeff Gossel, senior intelligence engineer at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC).

Revealed: Secret FBI Cyber Op To Clean Exchange Servers

Revealed: Secret FBI Cyber Op To Clean Exchange Servers
Revealed: Secret FBI Cyber Op To Clean Exchange Servers

This operation — which involved the FBI removing malware from privately owned and operated victim servers without advance notice — could be unprecedented, at least at this scale.

Ukraine Turns To West For Fighters; Plans To Drop MiG Fleet

Ukraine Turns To West For Fighters; Plans To Drop MiG Fleet
Ukraine Turns To West For Fighters; Plans To Drop MiG Fleet

KIEV: Ukraine, faced with Russian troops on two fronts, has gone public with plans to buy combat aircraft that are not Russian-made. The vulnerable NATO partner plans to become independent of Vladimir Putin’s military in a crucial domain. Unlike Poland, which has been operating a “mixed” fleet of US and Russian-made aircraft, Ukraine is evaluating…

Army Needs Armor For City Fights: Gen. McConville

Army Needs Armor For City Fights: Gen. McConville
Army Needs Armor For City Fights: Gen. McConville

The Army Chief of Staff defended the service’s ambitious modernization program, particularly new armored vehicles and long-range missiles.

DoD’s New Pushback Against Chinese Money In US Defense Industry

DoD’s New Pushback Against Chinese Money In US Defense Industry
DoD’s New Pushback Against Chinese Money In US Defense Industry

“The proactive, nefarious work coming from China and Russia in particular [will make US policymakers] “realize that we don’t have control over everything that we think we have control over,” Tara Murphy Dougherty, CEO of Govini said

China Leads US In 3 Of 6 AI Areas: Bob Work

China Leads US In 3 Of 6 AI Areas: Bob Work
China Leads US In 3 Of 6 AI Areas: Bob Work

The US has a narrow edge in its talent pool, its hardware and its algorithms, but China is ahead in accumulating data, deploying applications, and integrating different functions.

Joint Force Vs. China: Project Convergence 21

Joint Force Vs. China: Project Convergence 21
Joint Force Vs. China: Project Convergence 21

“This is a journey to see what’s possible, what can we do with today’s technologies, for a relatively minor cost,” Gen. John Murray told us. “Project Convergence ’20 cost us about the same thing as one Combat Training Center rotation” — $23 million.

Q&A: Gen. Mike Murray On JADC2, Project Convergence, & Future War EXCLUSIVE

Q&A: Gen. Mike Murray On JADC2, Project Convergence, & Future War EXCLUSIVE
Q&A: Gen. Mike Murray On JADC2, Project Convergence, & Future War EXCLUSIVE

“It comes down to data standards and it comes down to architecture. How does the Air Force architecture integrate with the Army architecture and with the Navy architecture? What are those crossover points?”

FCC’s Carr: Close Chinese Backdoors Into US Networks

FCC’s Carr: Close Chinese Backdoors Into US Networks
FCC’s Carr: Close Chinese Backdoors Into US Networks

“It’s the presence of this insecure gear in our networks that’s the threat, not the source of funding used to purchase it,” Commissioner Carr said.

Historic Marine Plan to Reinvent The Corps EXCLUSIVE

Historic Marine Plan to Reinvent The Corps EXCLUSIVE
Historic Marine Plan to Reinvent The Corps EXCLUSIVE

The document outlines an evolving effort to stand up a series of small, agile units tasked with air defense, anti-ship and submarine warfare, and seizing, holding and resupplying ad hoc bases to support an island-hopping campaign in the Pacific.