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WASHINGTON — The Navy is launching a new defense industrial base office, in an attempt to bolster the industrial supply chain and ramp up the adoption of “innovative technologies” into the fleet. Andrew Magliochetti, who previously served as the director of the Navy’s Office of Small Business Programs, will oversee the Office of the Defense Industrial Base, Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao announced on Monday. Specifically, Magliochetti will function as the principal civilian advisor for the assistant secretary of the Navy for Research, Development, and Acquisition to manage growth and wellbeing of the service’s industrial supply chain, the…

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A Democratic lawmaker hopes to include language prescribing large language model containment practices in pending House legislation on artificial intelligence in the wake of the OpenAI models’ attack on Hugging Face networks. Rep. Suhas Subramanyam, D-Va., gave updates on the House’s AI-related legislative plans during a Center for Strategic and International Studies event Monday. He said the OpenAI models’ breach from containment environments during routine testing has prompted potential updates to the pending FRONTIER Act, which was introduced in July by Reps. Jay Obernolte, R-Calif., and Lori Trahan, D-Mass. “There’s a lot of things that we’re trying to fine-tune in the bill, and…

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New space transportation policy released by the Trump administration Thursday looks to build out the infrastructure capabilities needed to rapidly increase the number of U.S.-led rocket launches in the coming years, including by tying the push with ongoing efforts to modernize the nation’s outdated air traffic control systems. President Donald Trump’s strategy sets a goal of supporting “more than 1,000 launches and reentries” by 2030, largely by prioritizing enhanced commercial sector engagement and increasing the number of launch and entry sites across the country. Building out this infrastructure, the policy says, will entail the Pentagon and NASA working together to “operate Federal…

BEIRUT — Turkish vehicle manufacturer FNSS unveiled a new unmanned multi-purpose amphibious vehicle (U-MAV) at the Turkish defense conference Teknofest this week. The four-wheeled İ-ZAHA is “designed to take the crew out of the first wave which is the highest-risk phase of any amphibious assault and to operate as part of a manned-unmanned team (MUM-T) with the Marine Assault Vehicles (MAV) already in service with the Turkish Naval Forces Command,” FNSS said in a statement. The eight-ton vehicle has the capability of transiting from sea to shore and a naval speed of 7 knots and land speed of 70 kmh…

SINGAPORE — Australia today announced the official location for its future defense precinct, which is expected to be home to maintenance for future submarines acquired under the AUKUS agreement. The site, located at Henderson in the state of Western Australia and seven miles across the water from the Royal Australian Navy base where its submarine fleet is based, “includes the preferred location for the Government’s naval shipbuilding and sustainment activities, and for the sustainment of Australia’s future conventionally armed nuclear-powered submarines,” according to the announcement. “The Defence Precinct at Henderson is where critical maritime capabilities for the Australian Defence Force…

On 02 June 2026, the President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, promulgated an ordinance establishing the Defence Industrial Production and Regulatory Authority (DIPRA). The Gazette of Pakistan published the full text of the ordinance the following day. During a seminar at Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF) Wah on 16 July 2026, an official had stated that DIPRA’s formation centered on the following idea: “building a competitive and self-reliant defence industry would contribute to increasing defence exports and support the country’s economic growth.“ Local news reports citing officials who attended the seminar also added that the DIPRA will help generate “closer cooperation…

A UH-60M Black Hawk is a versatile military helicopter. Credit: Fox2air/Shutterstock.com. The US State Department has approved a possible Foreign Military Sale (FMS) worth an estimated $2.3bn to Norway for 21 UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters and a wide array of associated equipment and services.  The proposed deal now awaits approval from the US Congress.  Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more Norway’s request also includes 46 T700-GE-701D engines, more than 100 communications radios, navigation equipment and M240H machine guns, alongside other weapons.  The package…

WARSAW — Polish defense technology company MESKO and Poland’s MND Armaments Agency have signed a framework agreement to supply thousands of Piorun missiles and launch systems for the international EDIRPA consortium. EDIRPA, comprised of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Norway, is an EU program aimed at incentivizing cooperation in defense procurement between member states to jointly coordinate and acquire the most urgent and critical defense product needs, especially amid Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. “This contract is worth PLN 8 billion [over $2.16 billion], the largest contract in history for the purchase of Piorun MANPADS, both launch systems and missiles, which will…