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TATA Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran has reviewed TATA Advanced Systems’ upcoming C-130J Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) facility near Bangalore airport, which will be India’s first private-sector defence MRO centre, according to a report in ET Defence.Scheduled for commissioning by December 2026, the facility will handle heavy maintenance and avionics upgrades for the Indian Air Force’s C-130J fleet and employ over 250 personnel.N. Chandrasekaran, accompanied by Sukaran Singh, Managing Director of TATA Advanced Systems Ltd (TASL), and senior officials, inspected the 16-acre complex with a built-up area of 15,000 square metres.The project is a major milestone in expanding India’s indigenous…

Mark Pomerleau, BrDef The Commission on US Cyber Force Generation released its report outlining what a new military service could look like Source link

On May 14–15, U.S. President Donald Trump visited China for the first time in eight years, meeting President Xi Jinping in Beijing. Their summit produced purchase agreements, two new bilateral boards, and a shared commitment to what both sides called “constructive strategic stability.”  The visit came after a year of tariff escalation, export control expansions, and critical minerals restrictions that had pushed the bilateral relationship to one of its more stressed points in recent memory. A fortnight on, the verdict among analysts has settled into a familiar groove: the summit was a modest but meaningful step toward predictability in the…

INS Sanshodhak, bearing the pennant number J24, has been officially delivered to the Indian Navy as the fourth and final vessel of the indigenously built Sandhayak-class Survey Vessel (Large) project. Constructed by Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE), this 110-metre hydrographic survey ship represents a significant addition to India’s maritime mapping and oceanographic capabilities, reinforcing the Navy’s ability to conduct precise and extensive surveys across coastal and deep-water environments.The primary role of INS Sanshodhak is to undertake hydrographic surveys, mapping navigational channels, and profiling port approaches to ensure safe and efficient maritime operations. Its secondary role includes deployment for search and…

DS While small drones increase the distance at which small units can identify or destroy an adversary target, Marines are still contending with how much those systems weigh and the… Source link

U.S. President Donald Trump’s new executive order on artificial intelligence (AI) signals a sharper strategic turn in Washington’s technology policy. The order brings the U.S. national security state closer to the companies developing AI models. Its core purpose is to preserve U.S. innovation while ensuring that the most powerful AI capabilities support U.S. cyber defense, critical infrastructure and strategic competition with China. The result may be a more divided global AI order, with Chinese models facing growing scrutiny over security, data and political alignment. From Risk Management to Strategic Competition Trump’s order “promoting advanced artificial intelligence innovation and security,” released…

Venezuela’s Acting President Delcy Rodriguez arrived in New Delhi on Wednesday for a five-day working visit aimed at further strengthening bilateral ties between India and Venezuela.The Ministry of External Affairs welcomed her arrival, noting that the visit would provide an opportunity to consolidate cooperation and build on the momentum in the partnership between the two countries. In a message on X, the MEA emphasised that the visit would deepen relations and expand collaboration across multiple sectors. Rodriguez is scheduled to hold bilateral discussions with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.The Ministry of External Affairs welcomed her arrival with a message on X,…

Lonny Anderson, RealClearDefense Why America’s Adversaries Love America’s Cyber Posture Today (And How We Gain the Advantage) Source link

WASHINGTON — In recent weeks, a number of allies and partners have been told their expected weapons deliveries from the United States are being slowed down as the US prioritizes its own coffers, sending shockwaves through defense communities in Europe and Asia that have come to rely on US weapons. And while analysts tell Breaking Defense there has yet to be any sense of a major shift away from buying American weapons, they acknowledge that the decision to kick allies back down the queue, especially when those countries have already put money down, fits into a broader pattern of concerns…

The military could stand up a separate service branch to handle cyber operations by 2028— should Congress or the White House decide to do so this year, according to a new Center for Strategic and International Studies report released Wednesday. “Regardless of institutional alignment, reaching initial operating capacity (IOC) would take between 12 and 18 months and proceed through several sequential phases: setting conditions; fielding the IOC; iterative growth over several years; and institutional refinement,” CSIS’s commission on Cyber Force Generation wrote. “Following a presidential decision or legislative action to establish a new Title 10 service, this force generation model would…