“I am not sure that we are cheaper than [General Atomics] but we are more flexible in the different payloads we can operate,” Ron Tryfus, IAI senior vice-president for future growth, said.
By Max BlenkinEnterprise-wide training: the Army’s $3.5B program for multi-service combat readiness
The competition for Warfighter Training and Readiness Solutions will bring together training networks, combat training centers and live ranges across the DoD enterprise.
For something like a small UAS, “instead of taking years to develop [a design] it takes months, and instead of taking weeks to manufacture by laying out carbon fiber, we take hours to assemble,” Divergent CEO Kevin Czinger told Breaking Defense.
By Aaron Mehta
The program seeks to revolutionize how the Pentagon approaches both sealift and airlift, using a trick of physics in low-altitude flight.
By Justin Katz
Oracle has to be able not just to detect space objects, but also discriminate targets of interest from what is currently an unfamiliar background for space imagery analysts filled with myriad stars and a growing number of spacecraft, AFRL’s Lt. Col. David Johnson explained.
By Theresa Hitchens
The General Atomics announcement comes amid a defense spending splurge from Warsaw.
By Lee Ferran
“We’ll be demonstrating this capability overseas,” David Alexander told Breaking Defense, adding that the demos could take place in Europe as early as “next month.”
By Valerie Insinna
“We believe that GA is going to pioneer a completely new way to propel airborne air breathing [vehicles],” said Mike Atwood, the firm’s senior director of advanced programs.
By Aaron Mehta
A major overhaul is coming in software for missile warning
Space Systems Command’s FORGE program is the first, major missile-warning software modernization effort in 20 years.
“The expectation is that these aircraft can be designed to be less survivable and less capable, but still bring an awful lot to the fight in a mixture that the enemy has a very hard time sorting out and dealing with,” said Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall.
By Valerie Insinna
The US Air Force hopes to develop and field autonomous combat drones that would augment piloted fighters “in the mid to late 2020s,” Andrew Hunter, the Air Force’s top acquisition official, said in August.
By Valerie Insinna
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With primary missions such as airborne early warning, comms and data networking/relay, maritime surface search, EW, and persistent offensive air support, the Marines’ MUX capability will provide an agile and lethal system of systems against peer or near-peer threats.
By Breaking Defense
Gambit will be General Atomics’ entrant for the Air Force’s Off-Board Sensing System program, a source with knowledge of the program told Breaking Defense exclusively.
By Valerie Insinna
UMEX 2022: Despite the United Arab Emirates withdrawing its letter of acceptance on a US weapons package that included 18 MQ-9B SkyGuardian unmanned aerial vehicles, General Atomics remains hopeful that a deal can still happen. The goal, a top company official said Wednesday, is to get the larger Foreign Military Sales (FMS) package broken up…
By Riad Kahwaji
The UAE’s plans to buy the F-35 now seem rocky, with the Emiratis threatening to pull out of the agreement.
By Valerie Insinna and Riad Kahwaji
While still seeking customers in the US military, General Atomics president Dave Alexander says several unnamed international parties are interested in latest deadly remotely controlled aircraft.
By Valerie Insinna
