Defense Watch

Space Policy Official. The Pentagon officially established its new Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy position on Oct. 29. The new ASD(SP) is responsible for supervising DoD policy for […]

New Cyber Advisories. A Russian government sponsored actor has been conducting cyber security attacks against U.S. state, local, territorial and tribal government networks, and aviation networks, since at least September, […]

Executive Change. Northrop Grumman’s board has elected Tom Jones as corporate vice president and president of the Aeronautics Systems sector, succeeding Janis Pamiljans, who is retiring in February. Jones, who […]

Long-Term Space Transportation Surge. As U.S. Transportation Command (TRANSCOM) pursues cooperative research and development agreements with SpaceX and Texas-based Exploration Architecture Corporation (XArc) on rapid deliveries of 80 short tons […]

Stone Sea Trials. The Coast Guard’s newest National Security Cutter (NSC), the Stone (WMSL 758), successfully completed acceptance sea trials and will be delivered to the service in early November, […]

Unmanned Tankers? The Air Force is studying future refueling options that go beyond the fielding of the Boeing KC-46 as a replacement tanker for the KC-135s and KC-10s, and such […]

LMT LUSV. Lockheed Martin said Sept. 17 it is partnering with Vigor on its bid for the Navy’s Large Unmanned Surface Vessel (LUSV) competition. Lockheed Martin, along with five other […]

New Boeing Hire. Boeing has named Ed Dandridge, the global chief marketing and communications officer at multinational finance and insurance giant AIG, as its new communications chief effective Sept. 28. […]

NATO Drone Security. A NATO agency has developed a low-cost prototype solution for rapidly detecting, identifying and localizing small unmanned aircraft systems that may pose a threat. The ARTEMIS system, […]

Small UAS Help. Customs and Border Protection said its use of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) have been used to assist in more than 1,500 apprehensions by Border Patrol agents […]