Defense Watch

Hypersonic Testing. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) wants to amend the Senate’s draft fiscal 2023 defense authorization bill to create a testing area for military and civil supersonic and hypersonic aircraft. […]

HACM Partnership. Under the more than $985 million contract the U.S. Air Force awarded to Raytheon Technologies last week for the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile (HACM), Northrop Grumman is to […]

Wargame Ship Size. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday this week said naval wargames analysis is pushing the service to have fewer large surface combatants like destroyers  and more […]

Quantum Resistance. The National Security Agency last Wednesday released its second round of requirements for algorithms to assist owners, operators and vendors of national security systems owners in the transition […]

DISA Data Strategy. DISA said on Aug. 30 it has released its new Data Strategy Implementation Plan (IPlan) detailing how the office will go about improving its data integration and […]

Hybrid Electric JLTV. Oshkosh Defense has been granted five patents related to its new hybrid electric version of the Joint Light Tactical, the eJLTV, the company said on Aug. 22. […]

Cyber Information Sharing. IronNet, the cybersecurity firm founded by retired Army Gen. Keith Alexander, who led the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, is working with the Cybersecurity and […]

New Army ‘Triad.’ The leaders of Army Space and Missile Defense (SMD) Command, Army Cyber Command and Army Special Operations Command detailed a new “triad” effort this week that aims […]

Tanker Sustainment. Boeing says that it has received an order from the Italian Air Force to continue “tip to tail,” performance based logistics (PBL) sustainment of the Italian Air Force’s […]

NRO Launches. Rocket Lab says that its Electron rocket is ready to carry the National Reconnaissance Office’s (NRO) “Antipodean Adventure” NROL-199 mission to orbit on Aug. 2. The rocket is […]