After completing the System Requirements Review-Prototype phase, Raytheon moves on to preliminary design, inching closer to a prototype in its competition with Northrop Grumman.
By Andrew EversdenA new approach to speed, scale and efficiency for the industrial base
Radars, EW, EO/IR, space imagery, and microelectronics are brought under one roof for a streamlined approach to common people and factories.
“The purpose behind this is really to lay in the digital infrastructure to improve decision making and accelerate kill chains, kill webs…against a near peer threat,”said Vinnie DiFronzo, SAIC’s senior vice president of operations. “So it really comes down to decision superiority as an initial objective.”
By Jaspreet Gill
Beijing claims weapons transfers, including a recent potential $1.1 billion deal, “gravely undermine China’s sovereignty and security interests.”
By Lee Ferran
Doug Bush laid out multiple avenues for keeping US stockpiles intact while keeping Ukraine armed for its battle against Russia, including potential industry incentives and getting help from America’s friends.
By Andrew Eversden
The sensors under development will integrate onto the Army’s well-known HADES aerial ISR program, designed to conduct “deep” intelligence gathering and target tracking.
By Andrew Eversden
“That’s what Ukraine has proved. It really is important not only to have that deterrence capability, but to be able to have enough quantities. Because as we saw, stores get depleted very quickly,” Wes Kremer, president of Raytheon Missiles & Defense, said.
By Andrew White
The TITAN program is a tactical ground station that will process data from across space and land-based sensors using artificial intelligence and ship it off to the right shooter — such as one of the new Army long-range precision fires missiles.
By Andrew Eversden
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.
The Missile Defense Agency’s early-stage hypersonic missile defense program will move forward amid fears about China and Russia’s hypersonic capabilities.
By Andrew Eversden
The company hopes new HQ location will “increase agility” in doing government and commercial business.
By Lee Ferran
Under the $324.5 million contract, the team will develop the “ground Operations and Integration (O&I) segment for Tranche 1 of the National Defense Space Architecture.”
By Theresa Hitchens
The Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile program, although nascent, is “going pretty well,” program executive Brig. Gen. Heath Collins told Breaking Defense in an exclusive interview.
By Valerie Insinna
The US has provided more than 5,500 Javelin shoulder-mounted anti-armor systems to Ukraine since the beginning of the Biden administration.
By Valerie Insinna
An investment into a startup like Hermeus that is looking at commercial hypersonic tech could lead to leap-ahead approaches that benefit defense applications.
By Valerie Insinna
Developing a new Stinger replacement will add unnecessary costs to taxpayers and likely deliver far later than the capability is needed, warns POGO’s Dan Grazier.
By Dan Grazier