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Navy/USMCNavy Can’t Afford Extending Ohio Submarine Platform, Haney Says
The Navy can’t afford to further extend the life of its current Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine platform, despite an upcoming budgetary challenge on replacing it, according to a key Pentagon […]
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Air ForceAir Force Sees Path To Predicting Cyber Capabilities
The Air Force believes it is in the early phases of developing an algorithm that will be able to predict the effects of cyber capability. Air Force Air Combat Command […]
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Air ForceAir Force ‘Very Close’ To LRSB Contract Announcement, LaPlante Says
The Air Force is getting “very close” to announcing the winner of the Long Range Strike Bomber (LRSB) competition, a key program thought to be as worth around $55 billion. […]
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Business/FinancialElbit Systems USA President Encourages Proactive U.S. Industrial Policy To Spur Innovation
The head of Elbit Systems of America called on the United States to have more proactive industrial policy, like Israel, if it wants to spur innovation in defense technologies. “I […]
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UncategorizedBusiness Owner Doubts Government’s UAV Licensing Plan, Cites Timeline, ‘Few Details’
A business owner who wants to use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) professionally has doubts about FAA and the Transportation Department’s preliminary plan for registering unmanned systems. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx […]
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Defense Watch
Defense Watch
Capitol Hill Look Ahead. Congress is back on the Hill this week, and the big question still remains whether President Barack Obama will veto the fiscal year 2016 National Defense […]
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SpaceAerojet Rocketdyne Completes CDRs For Orion Subsystems
Aerojet Rocketdyne [AJRD] in August completed critical design reviews (CDR) for the jettison motor and crew module reaction control system (RCS) it is developing for NASA’s Orion crew module, according […]
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Business/FinancialTextron Names Mitch Snyder Bell Helicopter President, CEO
Textron [TXT] on Thursday named Mitch Snyder president and CEO of its Bell Helicopter unit. Snyder succeeds John Garrison, who is jointing Terex Corp. [TEX] as its new president and […]
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ArmyLockheed Martin Delivers Thirteen PAC-3 MSE Interceptors To Army In September
Lockheed Martin [LMT] delivered 13 of its Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) interceptors to the Army in September, the first missiles to be delivered 19 months after […]
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ArmyAdvanced Russian UAV Use Leads U.S. Army Europe Concerns Over Radio Jamming
U.S. Army Europe radios are vulnerable to jamming and interception, hampering forces at a crucial time as Russian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) use has troops returning to basic fieldcraft techniques. […]