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Stephen Losey, Air & Space Forces The Air Force’s X-62 autonomous test… Source link

WASHINGTON — The Space Force has granted task orders worth a total of $615 million to develop satellites to detect fast-moving targets in the air to three companies: Rocket Lab, STR and a company whose name was not disclosed due to “operational security,” according to Space Systems Command (SSC). The awards represent the second round of task orders under the service’s April-issued indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) Space-Based Airborne Moving Target Indicator (SB-AMTI) contract vehicle, SSC said in a press release Tuesday. The contract is being managed by SSC’s Space-Based Sensing and Targeting portfolio office. The first task order, worth a…

The Pakistan Navy’s (PN) emerging anti-access and area-denial (A2/AD) posture will draw on the timely convergence of two developments: the operational experience coming from the wars in Ukraine and Iran, and Pakistan’s domestic industry increasingly leaning into uncrewed platforms, one-way attack (OWA) or loitering munitions, and conventional surface-to-surface missiles (SSM). Essentially, there is no apparent ‘lag’ between the following emerging warfare trends and the Pakistani industry’s ability to provision solutions. Therefore, the PN can leverage existing and planned indigenous solutions to steer its A2/AD efforts to leverage the following: (1) uncrewed aerial, surface, and sub-surface platforms (2) loitering munitions and…

Reuters Lockheed Martin is in talks to buy supplies of two critical minerals from U.S. mines Source link

WASHINGTON — The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) today announced new contracts to three synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite operators — Capella Space, ICEYE US and Umbra — in what the spy satellite agency called a “significant step” designed to provide operational data for integration with data from its own classified intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance birds. The new contracts have a year-long performance base running from Aug. 1, 2026 through July 31, 2027, as well as two optional follow-on years that, if executed, would run through July 31, 2029, according to the NRO press release. The agency did not reveal the…

Stephen Blank, CEPA Ill-considered European statements about talks with Russia demonstrate confusion and lessons still unlearned. Source link

A year of relative calm in the Kashmir valley was shattered on July 31 when terrorists opened fire on two non-local laborers at a brick kiln in Kilam village of South Kashmir’s Kulgam district. The two laborers were migrants from the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. The attack at Kulgam has triggered panic among tens of thousands of laborers from India’s poorer northern states, who come to the Kashmir valley every year between March and November to work on construction sites, road projects, brick kilns, and apple orchards. The July 31 killings prompted some of them to return home. The…

G. Newsham, Asia T. China’s rulers invest tremendous resources into cultivating the ‘resistance is futile’ narrative among foreign elites and influentials Source link

WASHINGTON — The Army is seeking industry input to acquire a new missile that costs less than $150,000 while still capable of taking down Group 2 and 3 small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) and compatible with Raytheon’s Coyote launcher, according to a request for information. The Army also wants the missile, dubbed the Next Generation C-sUAS Missile (NGCM), to go faster and farther than current systems capable of countering drones weighing 21 to 1,320 lbs. “The principal objectives for this effort are to develop, produce, and sustain a missile capability at extended ranges with rapid launch and reduced time-to-target over existing…

No one is saying, officially, what was decided when top frontier AI labs—Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta—met with White House officials on Tuesday to discuss voluntary guidelines for testing new models.But Democratic lawmakers described the Trump administration’s approach to regulation as “ad-hoc and unpredictable,” and said it’s likely to boost global adoption of rival Chinese models at the worst possible time.Two officials with one of the labs said that Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI submitted a joint draft of the regulation around nine days ago and then began to work with each other and with the White House to find points of agreement.…