Increased spending in Europe will likely “increase the amount of competition between European and US defense companies,” says Leonardo DRS CEO William Lynn.
By Aaron MehtaEnterprise-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.
Leonardo DRS head William Lynn tells Breaking Defense that more M&A activity could be coming.
By Aaron Mehta
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Building naval vessels with electric propulsion is a new challenge for shipyards, so “single-system vendors” will be needed to provide the electric propulsion package as a subcontractor to the shipyard.
By Breaking Defense
SATELLITE 2022: European satellite firm SES has been growing its government portfolio for the past five years, and sees no end in sight for the upward trend in demand — a market analysis that lies behind its decision to acquire the satellite communications arm of Leonardo DRS, says SES CEO Steve Collar. That $450 million…
By Theresa Hitchens
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What the US Navy is doing now to electrify, why it’s vital to the Great Power competition, and advances in batteries and energy storage.
By Breaking Defense
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Assured Position, Navigation, and Timing (A-PNT) is slowly making its way into key-leader vehicles, with no concrete plans to address A-PNT for the rest of the fleet any time soon. An interim A-PNT solution from Leonardo DRS changes that for everyone.
By Breaking Defense
“Every day, [the T-38] becomes just another step more disconnected from the advanced avionics, advanced sensing, the advanced processing that our modern fighters have. And so we can’t fill that void fast enough,” said Air Combat Command head Gen. Mark Kelly.
By Valerie Insinna
B-21, hypersonics and more: How digital development is driving industry innovation
Technological advancements are key to keeping pace with customer demands and evolving threat landscapes.
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Leonardo DRS’ AC²ES Assured Position, Navigation, and Timing solution for MFoCS-equipped tactical vehicles creates a bridging and interim capability to fill a gap.
By Barry Rosenberg
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October is Breast Cancer Month, and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine is waging a highly modernized war on breast cancer.
By Catherine Macaulay
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Power and energy are becoming mission enablers to support the increasing electric-load demands of modern combatant ships, especially in the areas of advanced radar and other electronic systems, as well as directed energy weapons.
By Barry Rosenberg
Miniaturized missile defenses work well on heavy tanks, but efforts to fit such Active Protection Systems on light vehicles like Stryker have failed – so far. Now the Army will test two lightweight options: Rafael’s Trophy VPS and Rheinmetall’s ADS.
By Arie Egozi
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Leonardo DRS is supporting the Army with ultra-low SWaP systems that operate at multiple security levels for all-domain applications.
By Breaking Defense
General Dynamics Land Systems can now order materials to start building the first 28 vehicles, worth a total of $230 million, in 2021.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
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Higher-power radar systems and offensive/defensive systems such as directed energy lasers require new sources of power.
By Breaking Defense Staff
