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ArmyMattis: Irregular Warfare Is The Key Today, But Not To Exclusion of All Else
By Ann Roosevelt VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.–While irregular warfare (IW) is the key problem today, the military must not succumb to tunnel vision and lose competency in other areas of military […]
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Navy UCAS Vital For Future Threats, But Lack of Support Could Doom Effort
The Navy’s effort to develop an aircraft carrier based unmanned combat aircraft system (UCAS) is absolutely critical to the service, but the Navy must demonstrate that the system can be […]
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Army Battalion Becomes First Unit Equipped With Latest Blackhawk Model
Sikorsky [UTX] June 11 delivered the 30th UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter to the Army for the 4-101 Assault Battalion, making it the First Unit Equipped (FUE) with the aircraft. The […]
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ScanEagle Achieves Real-Time Processing of SAR
Boeing [BA], in partnership with ImSAR and Insitu Inc., achieved a major milestone in May with the real-time processing of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data aboard a ScanEagle unmanned aircraft […]
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Business/FinancialContract
NASA Awards $1.5 Billion Kennedy Space Center Contract NASA gave EG&G Technical Services Inc., of Gaithersburg, Md., a contract worth up to $1.5 billion to provide institutional services at Kennedy […]
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BAE Systems Wrests Air Mission-Planning Development Contract From Northrop Grumman
By Marina Malenic Unseating an incumbent contractor, the Air Force and Navy have awarded a $43 million contract for the continued development of a joint air mission planning framework. BAE […]
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Business/Financial
Orion Launch Abort System Igniter Undergoes Tests
NASA and Alliant Techsystems Inc. [ATK] test-fired a critical safety component for the Orion crew exploration vehicle, the future American spacecraft. Technicians fired a yard-long igniter for the abort motor […]
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Army
Joint Warfighting Is A Human Endeavor, Enabled By Technology
By Ann Roosevelt VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.–Technology is not the solution to improved joint warfighting, the U.S. Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) deputy commanding general said last week. "Joint warfighting is a […]
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Business/Financial
New DOD Office To Oversee Space And Intel Acquisition
By Emelie Rutherford A new organization within the Pentagon acquisition chief’s office responsible for all acquisition oversight of Defense Department space and intelligence programs has been officially established with Joshua […]
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Defense Watch
The Latest Word On Trends And Developments In Aerospace And Defense Tanker Trash Talk. Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.)–a backer of the GAO’s June 18 call for the Air Force to […]