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The demand signal from allies and coalition partners points to the Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS) as a transformational command and control capability for integrated air and missile defense that’s going to be in strong, global demand for years to come.
By Breaking DefenseWhat’s new in naval radars and missiles: Defending the Pacific
Defending U.S. naval forces in the Pacific, Red Sea, and elsewhere require a range of systems from close-in weapons to anti-ballistic missiles.
As Breaking Defense toured Boeing’s Seattle area facilities where the E-7 radar plane will take shape, company officials talked about getting the bird in the air — and their vision for what it can do.
By Michael Marrow
Boeing, General Atomics, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and startup Anduril are in play to field the Air Force’s collaborative combat aircraft, Breaking Defense has learned.
By Michael Marrow
The company has no doubt been looking somewhat nervously into the rear view mirror as new competitors race into the skyrocketing Pentagon market.
By Theresa Hitchens
DoD officials and outside experts have been wringing their hands for the past year over the state of the US supply chain for solid rocket motor technology, as stocks of munitions and missile systems reliant on SRMs — such as the Army’s Javelin shoulder-mounted anti-tank weapon, Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS), and Stinger missiles — have been depleted by sales to Kiev.
By Theresa Hitchens
Steve O’Bryan, Northrop’s top international sales executive, says the company will seek to follow the “F-35 playbook” and partner globally.
By Aaron Mehta
The B-21 Raider, America’s newest stealth bomber, “is in flight testing,” an Air Force spokesperson confirmed to Breaking Defense.
By Michael Marrow
Gray 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.
“It feels a little like the uncertainty around COVID, but no companies are pulling out,” Eric Fanning, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Aerospace Industries Association, told Breaking Defense.
By Michael Marrow
The new Mk21A reentry vehicle will be mounted atop the Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile and will carry an updated nuclear warhead known as the W87-1.
By Michael Marrow
The contract includes 36 Tranche 2 Transport Layer – Alpha satellites and supporting ground elements, as well as five years of operations and sustainment.
By Theresa Hitchens
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Manufacturing the B-21 bomber, F-35 center fuselage, lessons learned, and autonomy: all are on the table in a discussion with Tom Jones, president of Northrop Grumman’s Aeronautics Systems.
By Breaking Defense
Airbus already holds a contract valued at more than £500 million ($610 million) for SKYNET 6A, a future military communications satellite planned for launch in 2025 and based on the manufacturer’s Eurostar Neo telecommunications satellite platform.
By Tim Martin
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The Raider and advanced manufacturing: what it took to roll out the bomber.
By Breaking Defense
“This is a broad and in a way campaign-like approach to strengthening our own supply chain and enabling multiple sources, really for even beyond our company for our industry, which I think is important,” Lockheed Martin CEO Jim Taiclet said of his firm’s endeavor to field a new solid rocket motor supplier.
By Michael Marrow
