Defense Watch

Department of the Space Force? For the new administration, two ideas making the rounds are the creation of a Department of the Space Force and an emphasis on fielding innovative […]

Ukraine Production. In a statement delivered on the 1,000th day of its war against Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy detailed his country’s efforts to scale up domestic weapons production, to […]

Hegseth Opposition. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has asked her colleagues on the panel to oppose Pete Hegseth’s nomination to serve as President-elect […]

NGA AI Strategy. Mark Munsell, the chief artificial intelligence officer at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, expects his agency to publish a new AI strategy in 2025 given how fast the […]

Welding School. The Navy’s Submarine Industrial base program announced the opening of the John D. Haynes School of Welding Technology at Mount Vernon High School on Oct. 24 to help […]

SRM Timelines. A partnership between Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics to add a new manufacturing source for solid rocket motors (SRMs) will result in first article testing in 2025, followed […]

Apache EW. The Army has tapped Lockheed Martin to develop the Gen 3 Radar Frequency Interferometer (RFI)/Radar Warning Receiver (RWR) APR-48B system for its Apache attack helicopter fleet. Lockheed Martin […]

SECNAV Meets Steelworkers. Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro met with the President of the United Steelworkers David McCall and President of the Wessel Group, Michael Wessel, on Sept. […]

C-UAS Advice. The challenges associated with detecting an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) in protected airspace, characterizing whether the object is hostile, and if a threat, defeating it, requires layered capabilities […]

Australian VLS. The Australian Defense Ministry on Sept. 25 said the Australian Defense Force (ADF) supported the re-arming of vertical launching systems (VLS) for Australian, Canadian and U.S. naval ships. […]