Ghost Reaper upgrades include Northrop Grumman’s Freedom Pod, which houses the company’s gateway radio system that can connect fourth- and fifth-generation fighters.
By Theresa HitchensGray Eagle is the low-cost, low-risk answer to Army modernization
Gray Eagle STOL and Gray Eagle 25M are the best options for Army aviation as it assesses where to move from its current inflection point.
During the exercise, the F-15EX will test the Eagle Passive Active Warning Survivability System (EPAWSS) EW suite, Lt. Gen. David Krumm says.
By Theresa Hitchens
“The Chinese see competition as a whole of government effort [and] they’re actually pretty good at it,” the Army Futures Command Chief told us. “We’re way out of practice.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“There’s a need in the near-term to defend against all of those [Chinese missile] threats from a 360-degree standpoint, and if the answer is Aegis, I’m ready to support it,” the presumptive head of Indo-PACOM told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
By Paul McLeary
“We’ve committed to 48, we’ll buy 48” F-35s, UK Minister for the Armed Forces, James Heappey, said. The original plan was to buy 138 fifth-generation fighters, but British officials in recent months have declined to say that number is still the target.
By Paul McLeary
The emerging Indo-Pacific Warfighting Concept has been drafted, but still has “a ways to go as far as working through the Department of Defense,” says INDOPACOM’s head of requirements, George Ka’iliwai.
By Theresa Hitchens
The Coast Guard ships are “not ballistic missile shooters,” Adm. Karl Schultz said, “but you know not every place that you need a ship needs to have that BMD capability.” What his ships can do is “free up shooters to be the key places they need to be.”
By Paul McLeary
Modernizing military simulation with open systems architecture
Best-of-breed common models and architecture enable virtual training and testing with the same data in a cyber-resilient posture.
“China’s proven it will not self-limit in competition, so we cannot expect them to self-limit in conflict,” said Maj. Gen. Richard Ross Coffman, who heads armored vehicle modernization at Army Futures Command. “We’ve got to be able to fight no matter where we are.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
France has ramped up activity in the region in accordance with its 2019 Indo-Pacific strategy.
By Murielle Delaporte
Taiwan may be targeted for annexation by 2027, Adm. Phil Davidson said, and Guam will have to be vigorously defended in a Pacific War.
By Paul McLeary
If confirmed by the Senate, Adm. John Aquilino and Vice Adm. Samuel Paparo will enter their jobs amidst increasing competition in fleet size, precision missiles, hacking, & espionage.
By Paul McLeary
INDOPACOM’s Brig. Gen. Jacqueline Brown said “policy is a significant concern…If we build a network, if we build these systems but they’re not releasable to our mission partners, we’re going to lose.”
By Paul McLeary
Commandant Gen. David Berger tells SecDef Austin he won’t ask for more money in the new budget, but asks for authority to kick tanks, helicopters, out of the force
By Paul McLeary
The report, delivered to Capitol Hill on Monday, sketches out the ask for the 2022 budget and in the years out to 2027, envisioning a long-range plan that Indo-Pacom commander Adm. Phil Davidson first introduced last year.
By Paul McLeary
