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Jon Deacon Panamaroff & Haven Harris, RCDefense 250 Years of Answering the Call to Defend America Source link

Rafael’s relationship with Germany is built on more than 30 years of defense cooperation across multiple domains. That history includes: EuroSpike, a joint venture with Diehl Defence and Rheinmetall to produce Spike missiles; EuroTrophy, a joint venture with KNDS and General Dynamics European Land Systems to provide the Trophy active protection system; and now the establishment of Dynamit Nobel Defence Digital (DND Digital), a digital division inside Dynamit Nobel Defence that is fully owned by Rafael. The DND Digital effort centers on localizing Rafael’s BNET software-defined radio technology in Germany, with DND Digital building local engineering authority, production capacity, and…

DAYTON, Ohio—Up to six designs could be brought to the prototyping phase of the second round of the Air Force’s drone-wingman effort next year, a service official told reporters on Tuesday.Increment 2 of the Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft competition is well underway, Col. Timothy Helfridge, the fighter portfolio acquisition executive, told reporters at the Life Cycle Industry Days conference here. By roughly mid-2027, Helfridge expects, there could be “up to” half a dozen designs.“We have another approximately 10 months left of our concept-refinement contract, where we would expect to have the refined attributes as we did before, as well…

Japanese Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu’s visit to Manila last week was more than another round of ASEAN diplomacy. It represented one of the clearest public manifestations of Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae’s updated Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) strategy, demonstrating how Japan is shifting its engagement with Southeast Asia beyond traditional development assistance toward practical security cooperation. Takaichi outlined that strategy in a foreign policy speech at Vietnam National University in Hanoi on May 2, marking a decade since the late former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo first proposed the FOIP vision. Takaichi argued that intensifying geopolitical competition, rapid technological innovation, and…

The Aviationist The CCA Experimental Operations Unit tested the uncrewed aircraft in Agile Combat Employment scenarios in a realistic operational environment Source link

FARNBOROUGH — The Pentagon is looking at options for how to license production of Patriot interceptors to Ukraine, but it’s too early to say when Kyiv will be able to start building its own missiles, a senior defense official told Breaking Defense last week. “We’re evaluating a set of COAs [courses of action] right now, which include a mix of domestic and international sourcing for end units, where they’re going to be located, how we’re going to build it, [and] which variant,” said Michael Cadenazzi, the assistant secretary of defense for industrial policy. Cadenazzi, who is also currently performing the…

NDM Air Force Undersecretary Matthew Lohmeier during a keynote speech July 27 gave a blunt assessment of the service’s current state, calling it “older, smaller and less ready than it needs… Source link

For warfighters, the defense industrial base’s (DIB) strength comes down to speed: whether industry can anticipate demand, solve production problems, and deliver critical systems on time. Breaking Defense discussed the challenges facing the DIB with Ana Garcia Olson, Managing Director, Navy & Marine Corps Business Lead, Accenture Federal Services, and Amy Bahrani, Managing Director, AI and Data, Defense Industrial Base Lead, Accenture Federal Services.  Breaking Defense: In today’s security landscape, technological dominance isn’t just about who has the best asset on the frontline; it’s about who can design, build, and field capabilities the fastest. How do we move the Joint…

Rogers, RCD . . . the Pentagon outsourced a duty of care to private landlords and never enforced the contracts meant to keep it intact. Source link

Earlier this year, a naval officer’s routine use of the app Strava revealed the location of the French nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle while it was operating in the eastern Mediterranean, amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran. No classified system was hacked. No network was deliberately penetrated. The information came from ordinary digital behavior that most people would never think twice about. That is the danger of ubiquitous technical surveillance, or UTS. UTS is the constant collection and monitoring of digital information through the combination of physical and environmental sensors, cameras, smartphones and mobile devices, fitness apps, financial transactions, connected devices,…