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WASHINGTON — General Dynamics President Danny Deep will become the company’s chief executive next year, as longtime CEO Phebe Novakovic steps down, the company announced today. Novakovic, who has held the top spot at GD since 2013, will transition to the role of executive chairman on Jan. 1, 2027, when Deep becomes CEO. “Danny is a highly skilled executive with rich operating experience. It has been a pleasure working closely with him and I am certain he will be an outstanding CEO,” Novakovic said in the company announcement. “I very much look forward to our continuing collaboration.” Deep has worked…

WASHIGTON — The Army announced today it awarded nine companies contracts collectively totaling around $93.6 million to supply applications in support of the Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) effort — the latest move in the service’s effort to field the technology as it scales to the corps level. The companies include General Dynamics Mission Systems, Air Space Intelligence Federal, Immersive Wisdom, LMI Consulting, Mente Systems, Stilman Advanced Strategies, Onebrief, Rune Technologies, and AIR (formerly Govini) with contracts for an initial one-year period. The applications will enable critical software capabilities that will be delivered to I Corps in the Pacific,…

On 05 October, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Türkiye agreed to accelerate military deployments to the kingdom under the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement (MJDA), as fighting intensified between Saudi-backed Yemeni forces and the Houthis. The deployments remain subject to each member’s national legislation. Signed on 07 August, the agreement treats an armed attack against one member as an attack against all three. Though the latest decision seemingly moves that commitment towards practical implementation, it is currently unclear whether these new shifts will fulfil those aspirations. Pakistan and Türkiye Define Their Roles The head of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the Pakistani…

WASHINGTON — General Dynamics Land Systems has partnered with Primordial Labs to bring AI voice-control to its combat vehicles, ranging from the iconic M1 tank to the next-gen XM30, the companies plan to announce later this morning. Coming just days ahead of the massive annual AUSA trade shadow in DC, this odd couple combines a classic heavy-metal military manufacturer, which has built the M1 for over 40 years, with a young AI startup best known for demonstrations with small drones. But Primordial built its Anura voice-control system to be platform-agnostic — it’s also working on AI assistance for Army helicopter…

The counter-UAS fight increasingly requires having enough different ways to detect, track, and defeat drones to match the threat, terrain, mission, and cost of an engagement. That is pushing the Pentagon toward a layered approach that includes lower-cost sensing, kinetic and non-kinetic effectors, directed energy, artificial intelligence, and physical protection. In this editorial eBRIEF, Breaking Defense examines how JIATF-401, led by Brig. Gen. Matthew Ross, is widening those options: testing lasers and high-power microwaves in operational settings, using AI to speed decision-making and testing, opening new paths for industry, and applying lessons from Ukraine showing that sometimes hardening, dispersion, or…

An F-15E Strike Eagle with Pratt & Whitney F100-PW-220 or 229 engines. Credit: Paul R. Jones/Shutterstock.com. StandardAero has received a US Air Force (USAF) award to apply its Maintenance Insight predictive maintenance tools to the F100-220 engine programme. With the F100-220 engine, which powers more than 175 F-15 aircraft, Maintenance Insight now supports five engine types in the USAF fleet. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more Maintenance Insight uses reliability models to assess engine failure modes and produce maintenance forecasts. The company said…

YUMA PROVING GROUND, Ariz. — After the joint force and its federal agency partners spent almost a month in the near-vacant desert training to defeat drones coming over the US-Mexico border, military officials have opted to hold their next large-scale counter-drone drill in a very different setting: a bustling city with oodles of people and buildings.  “Homeland defense is not about protecting from outside; it’s also protecting inside. We could do one without taking care of the other, and that’s not the right answer,” Brig. Gen. Jason Rueschhoff, operations director of US Northern Command, told reporters on Sept. 24 in…

INOD Block III is a clip-on thermal sight for snipers and special operations personnel. Credit: © Leonardo DRS. Leonardo DRS has completed both the delivery and final training for Improved Night/Day Observation Device Block III thermal weapon sights ordered by the Australian Army through the LAND 159 Tranche 1 programme. The INOD Block III is a clip-on thermal sight for sniper and special operations users. It is fitted in front of a direct-view optic and is designed to retain the existing scope’s zero while adding thermal-imaging capability. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach…

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Bae Systems’ AN/ASQ-239 EW offers situational awareness and self-protection on the battlefield. Credit: © BAE Systems. BAE Systems has received an order from Lockheed Martin to manufacture electronic warfare (EW) systems for F-35 fighter aircraft, including equipment for new production and upgrades to older jets. The contract covers AN/ASQ-239 systems for F-35 Lots 20-22, as well as retrofit and modernisation work on aircraft already in service, BAE Systems said. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more Financial terms of the transaction have not been…