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Derek Lacey, Axios A Huntsville, Alabama defense company gave an up-close demonstration this week of a powerful new anti-drone laser system Source link

WASHINGTON — The US military will scale back its participation in a joint exercise with South Korea this month due to the message it sends to Pyongyang and the event’s cost, US President Donald Trump announced in a social media post Sunday. “These exercises are not only costly […] but send a signal that is completely inappropriate and hostile,” Trump wrote, while also citing his “very good relationship” with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.  He also linked the decision to Seoul’s reluctance to take military actions against Iran.“While somewhat unrelated (?), I recently asked the President of South Korea…

Brad Cooper, The Wall Street Journal On Saturday I addressed the crew, congratulated them on a magnificent job, and sent them home. Source link

China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has not fought a major war in nearly five decades, leaving many of the concepts driving its modernization efforts untested in combat. So it’s no surprise that Chinese military researchers are soaking in everything they can from the conflict in Iran in order to measure those concepts against battlefield reality.  The takeaway seems clear: For the PLA, Iran has reinforced many of the ideas already driving China’s modernization around “intelligentized” and systems-oriented warfare. The conflict, PLA scholars are saying, shows China is already on the right track with developing a military capable of challenging other…

Exposure to extreme heat is costing the South Asian workforce a significant chunk of their pay every year, a series of recently published reports show. The single largest economic cost of heat comes from labor productivity losses, but there are other factors as well. A report from the World Bank predicted that South Asia’s regional GDP could be reduced by nearly 7 percent by 2050 if no adaptation measures are taken. A recent report from Bangladesh, which is based on interviews with 175 households engaged in informal work such as construction, rickshaw pulling, and garment manufacturing, found that outdoor workers…

Mongilio, USNI N. Benfold suffered the engineering casualty resulting in a loss of power last month Source link

While many modern systems are automated, that doesn’t mean they’re truly autonomous and making them so is a substantial technological leap.  Breaking Defense discussed what true autonomy is, how it can be applied to aircraft and how it offers significant capability upgrades to operators with Craig Woolston, vice president and general manager, research and advanced design at Northrop Grumman, who also provided details on the self-funded Talon Blue collaborative combat aircraft. Breaking Defense: What does true autonomy mean in a defense aviation context, and why is it important for warfighters? Craig Woolston, vice president and general manager, research and advanced…

I built the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification because self-attestation was failing our war industrial base. Contractors could simply promise they were following basic cybersecurity practices, with no verification behind that promise. Our adversaries noticed that gap long before Washington did—and they have not eased up since. If anything, the opposite is true. Nation-state actors and the ransomware crews they tolerate or direct are more aggressive, better funded, and faster than they were five years ago. This is not the moment to loosen the standard. The Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement requirements behind CMMC should not change, and I would not support it…

A video clip of India’s Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari is going viral these days in which he claims that a Dubai prince once asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to “export” him to Dubai for six months. According to the minister, the Dubai royal was so impressed by India’s rapidly expanding road infrastructure that he wanted Gadkari to replicate it in Dubai. Both Modi and Gadkari, while highlighting the success stories of India’s highway construction, claimed that India is now using space technology in road construction and that by 2024, India’s roads could be comparable with roads in…

DBlog The U.S. Coast Guard is seeking companies capable of converting new C-130J transport aircraft into HC-130J surveillance planes Source link