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Jamie Whitney, Military+Aerospace Electronics The agency announced agreements with SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Reflection, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Oracle to deploy frontier… Source link

WASHINGTON — The Air Force is implementing a “fleet-wide operational pause” for the T-38 Talon fleet effective immediately, the service announced today. The aircraft is being grounded “[o]ut of an abundance of caution” following a crash of a T-38 on May 12, according to an Air Force press release. Two pilots in the incident both safely ejected from the aircraft, which was operating from Columbus Air Force Base in Mississippi. The Air Force press release says the grounding will enable an ongoing accident investigation into the May 12 incident, in order “to locate and assess evidence” and ensure “the continued…

A year after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the Army to take on a long list of tasks—including jettisoning unwanted vehicles and aircraft and  re-focusing on unmanned systems—the Army Transformation Initiative is on uncertain ground.Hegseth has said he’s giving the document “another look,” but has declined to be more specific, frustrating lawmakers who want a detailed roadmap and timeline they can fund—or not.  “We’d like to see a concrete plan on how the Army intends to modernize, where it invests, where the investments will be made, what risks to readiness will be absorbed, and what impact it will have on…

With the sixth meeting of the Turkiye-Kazakhstan High-Level Strategic Cooperation Council, held in Astana on May 14, relations between the two countries are increasingly moving onto a more strategic footing. During the visit, 13 agreements were signed covering trade, investment, transportation, defense industry, and culture. The fact that the visit took place ahead of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) summit in Turkistan also gave these contacts a broader regional significance.  Energy emerged as the central theme of the meetings in Astana. Kazakh oil and its connection to the Middle Corridor are placing the Turkiye-Kazakhstan relationship in a more critical…

The Chandrayaan‑3 mission continues to yield remarkable insights into the Moon’s southern polar region, with the Vikram lander’s “hop” experiment revealing hidden complexities in the lunar Regolith. After its historic soft‑landing on 23 August 2023, Vikram carried out a suite of experiments for ten Earth days, including studies of near‑surface plasma and seismic vibrations.On 2 September 2023, engineers reignited its engines to perform a short vertical hop of about 50 centimetres, using residual propellant. This manoeuvre was not only a demonstration of a critical skill for future sample‑return missions but also provided a unique opportunity to study how the exhaust plume…

Medium For decades, the American strategic posture has withered within a “Stability Gap” Source link

TAMPA, Fla. — US Northern Command is standing up a partnership dubbed Nordic Bridge to enhance collaboration between multiple US commands while confronting Arctic security concerns, Gen. Gregory Guillot said today.  “I just returned a week or so ago from meeting with some other partners in EUCOM [US European Command] and establishing what we’re calling the Nordic Bridge,” Guillot, commander of NORTHCOM and North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), told an audience at the annual SOF Week exposition.  He added that it will “tie together” NORTHCOM, NORAD, EUCOM and US Special Operations Command Europe. Though Guillot didn’t provide many details…

The Navy’s drone tanker, the MQ-25A Stingray, is cleared for low-rate initial production—just weeks after a production-ready model took its first flight. “MQ-25 reached Milestone C, which is huge because now we have inflight refueling that is unmanned…it’s a great capability,” Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao said at the end of an hourslong Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Tuesday.  The service plans to order three aircraft as part of a Lot 1 contract, which should be awarded later this summer, the Navy said in a news release Tuesday. Priced options for two subsequent lots with a combined eight aircraft are also expected…

India is hosting its fourth leader-level Africa summit (the India-Africa Forum Summit, IAFS-IV) on May 31 under the official theme “IA SPIRIT”: India Africa Strategic Partnership for Innovation, Resilience, and Inclusive Transformation. The summit is significant. For the first time in 11 years, African leaders and multilateral organizations will convene in the Indian capital. The return of the IAFS responds to the contemporary rupture of the international order that has left India in a particularly difficult position, prompting New Delhi to shore up ties with its traditional friends in the Global South. As described by India’s External Affairs Minister S.…

India is hosting its fourth leader-level Africa summit (the India-Africa Forum Summit, IAFS-IV) on May 31 under the official theme “IA SPIRIT”: India Africa Strategic Partnership for Innovation, Resilience, and Inclusive Transformation. The summit is significant. For the first time in 11 years, African leaders and multilateral organizations will convene in the Indian capital. The return of the IAFS responds to the contemporary rupture of the international order that has left India in a particularly difficult position, prompting New Delhi to shore up ties with its traditional friends in the Global South. As described by India’s External Affairs Minister S.…