Defense Watch

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 […]

NGI Proposals In. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) director Vice Adm. Jon Hill confirmed industry has finished submitting proposals for the Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system […]

B-21 Avionics Testbed. It appears that the Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider test aircraft under construction in Palmdale, Calif., has yet to have avionics installed. The U.S. Air Force is instead […]

Foreign Interference. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence last Friday issued a new statement assessing unclassified foreign threats to the 2020 U.S. election that analyze the interests of […]

Online and On Time. Lockheed Martin said that it is on track with the AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW). In February, the U.S. Air Force said that fiscal 2021 […]