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Officials at the groundbreaking ceremony. Credit: Northrop Grumman. Northrop Grumman has broken ground on a new “Legacy Building” at its Roy Innovation Center (RIC) in Utah to expedite the next-generation Sentinel Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) strategic deterrent programme for the US Air Force (USAF).  Work on the new facility will begin this summer, with completion scheduled for 2028.  Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more This latest development will bring the RIC campus to a total of six buildings and increase its office space to…

Zachery Thomas, DODReads One of the book’s earliest examples comes from military aviation, where a skipped preflight inspection becomes a lasting lesson about accountability. Source link

A Leopard 2A6 with mtu’s 873 engine. Credit: Rolls-Royce Power Systems AG The war in Ukraine has demonstrated that modern armoured formations must be capable of relocating quickly if they are to survive the widespread use of drones, precision-guided munitions and long-range artillery weapons. A tank or infantry fighting vehicle that can rapidly relocate after engaging enemy forces is harder to target than one that remains static or moves too slowly. The ability to ‘shoot-and-scoot’, reinforce vulnerable positions and manoeuvre around emerging threats is now a fundamental component of combat effectiveness. For European armed forces, this requirement is vital as…

Thales leads radar patents as C4ISR integration and weaponry filings grow. Credit: Shutterstock Defence budgets are growing globally; the patent data beneath them receives far less attention. Electronic warfare patent publications totalled 11,125 in the 12 months to June 2026, against 12,490 in the prior year: a 10.9% contraction in volume. Grant ratio (grants published against applications published in the same window, a flow measure that rises above 1.0 when prior-period backlogs convert) rose from 0.741 to 0.863, the highest reading in the 14-quarter dataset. The sector is not retreating but concentrating. Rising geopolitical tensions have accelerated defence procurement budgets…

Mil. AI To keep pace with rapidly evolving threats, the U.S. Army is turning to AI to accelerate the transformation of engineering designs into immersive military training simulations Source link

A&SF The Space Development Agency announced contracts worth $1.75 billion to build 36 satellites in support of the Pentagon’s Golden Dome missile defense shield Source link

Several Central Asian governments have had to implement emergency fuel management measures in recent days amid a worsening regional fuel crisis prompted by Russia’s July 8 ban on diesel exports, and ongoing disruptions to its refining sector caused by Ukraine’s escalating drone campaign. Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are facing an especially bad supply crunch due to their near-total dependence on petroleum product imports from Russia, but other Central Asian governments are also being affected, with fuel prices rising across the entire region in recent weeks. Moscow typically exempts petroleum product deliveries made to Central Asia from export restrictions under intergovernmental agreements…

Lariosa, Naval News The Senate’s FY2027 NDAA markup injects $40 million to integrate General Atomics’ 300km-range Bullseye cruise missile into U.S. Marine Corps Littoral Regiments Source link

East Asian manufacturing hubs from the Pearl River Delta and Yangtze to the Pacific Belt along the coast of Japan have driven global growth, producing the majority of the world’s goods and accounting for 17 percent of global trade. Global consumer demand has increased output, which in turn has required greater procurement. East Asia is the world’s largest oil-importing region and brings in massive amounts of raw materials for refinement and manufacturing. But dynamics are changing. The powerhouses of production are slowly moving from East Asia to the south. The supply chain is reconfiguring, empowered by ASEAN and China’s slowing…

David Dorsey, et al. , SWJ SOF remain the most human-capital-dependent capability in the U.S. military Source link