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Parth Satam, The Aviationist The new Armed Black Hawk kit allows UH-60s to be quickly reconfigured for new mission sets, allowing greater flexibility and eliminating the need for dedicated… Source link

COLORADO SPRINGS — The Department of the Air Force is seeking lawmakers’ blessing to award multi-year deals for aircraft and satellites, according to Secretary Troy Meink, expanding the Pentagon’s push to ramp up production for key weapons systems. Speaking Wednesday during a briefing with reporters at the Space Symposium conference here, Meink said Pentagon officials are “working with the Hill to help get that authority [for multi-year procurement] across the board, not only with munitions, but actually with the production of aircraft, with the production of spacecraft. And I think we’ve gotten really good support from the Hill on this.” …

L&T Technology Services has announced a strategic partnership with a leading global energy major to establish a new Digital Expertise Centre in India.The collaboration positions the company as a key engineering services and technology partner, with the centre expected to expand its workforce by approximately 500 engineers.The disclosure, underscores the strategic importance of this initiative in strengthening digital engineering capabilities within the energy sector.The partnership is likely to enhance L&T Technology Services’ revenue growth and market share in the energy domain over the next two to three years. By embedding itself deeper into the digital transformation journey of a global…

Breaking Defense “If you look at the [fight] in Ukraine on either side, it’s really hard to move out and get fires ready to go…. The Paladin is just incapable of it at speed,” Army… Source link

Breaking Defense is heading to scenic National Harbor, Maryland for this year’s Sea Air Space conference. Naval warfare reporter Diana Stancy joins Aaron Mehta to discuss what she’s expecting from Adm. Daryl Caudle’s first Sea Air Space as Chief of Naval Operations. Some of the major themes of this year’s show are expected to be the military-wide acquisition reform, along with the Navy’s role in the ongoing conflict in Iran. We’ll be tracking it all, so check back often to see our coverage from the show floor. Source link

The Atlantic alliance can no longer be managed through reassurance, communiqués, or the fiction that its internal tensions are political noise. They are structural. Mark Rutte’s recent visit to Washington made that clear. NATO requires rebalancing: a more credible distribution of responsibility, capability, and strategic weight across the alliance.Beneath this lies a growing crisis of trust. Europeans no longer simply ask whether the United States will stay engaged; they worry that ambiguity or sudden shifts in Washington could hollow out deterrence and tempt adversaries to test what was once an ironclad commitment. Unequal burden‑sharing has shifted from a long‑running grievance…

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is expanding its network of facilities to track space objects in Earth’s orbit, with plans to establish a phased array radar in the north-eastern region of India and an optical telescope at Hanle in Ladakh.These developments are part of a broader effort to enhance India’s Space Situational Awareness (SSA) capabilities at a time when Low Earth Orbit (LEO), ranging between 500 and 1,000 kilometres above Earth, is becoming increasingly congested with satellites and debris, raising the risk of accidental collisions.Currently, ISRO operates the Multi-Object Tracking Radar (MOTR) at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in…

Greg Hadley, A&SF The Air Force is emphasizing operations and maintenance and research and development. The Army and Navy plan buying sprees … Source link

COLORADO SPRINGS — Lockheed Martin’s new contract worth up to $105 million for modernizing the ground control system for Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites covers not just the birds on orbit today, but also early operations for the future GPS IIIF variants, according to a company announcement Thursday. “The new contract expands on a decade of work under the Space Force’s Architecture Evolution Plan, during which Lockheed Martin has steadily modernized the GPS ground segment. Under the agreement, the company will support launch, early orbit, and disposal operations for GPS IIIF space vehicles,” the announcement elaborated. The contract, awarded April 8, comes…

NASHVILLE—The Army’s next-generation spy plane will begin flight tests this summer, then be delivered to the first units later this year—two years after the Army awarded Sierra Nevada Corporation $1 billion to turn its Bombarder 6500 business jet into an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance platform that will replace the Army’s legacy turboprop fleet.The service wants to combine the inherent range of the High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System—HADES for short—with launched effects, Andrew Evans, the director of strategy and transformation in the Army’s headquarters intelligence office, told reporters Friday at the Army Aviation Warfighting Summit. A year ago, he said he…