The Pentagon, alarmed at the low weapons stockpiles the U.S. would have on hand for a potential future conflict with China, is urging its missile suppliers to double or even quadruple production rates on a breakneck schedule.
Military leaders have raised serious concerns about the Trump administration’s forthcoming defense strategy, exposing a divide between the Pentagon’s political and uniformed leadership as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summons top brass to a highly unusual summit in Virginia on Sept. 30, according to eight current and former officials.
Defense contractors Anduril and RTX both unveiled ground-launched versions of existing munitions at the AFA conference outside Washington last week, pointing to growing market demand for the weapons amid trials on the modern battlefield.
A shutdown would sideline federal cyber defenders just as a bedrock cybersecurity data-sharing law expires, leaving the government unusually vulnerable, cybersecurity experts warn.
A collection of small defense technology firms and entrepreneurs is urging lawmakers of both parties to avert a looming government shutdown, warning such a closure would hurt the defense industrial base and startup firms.
NATO’s fielding of counter-drone systems must be expediated so the threat of Russian drones violating alliance airspace can be better dealt with, according to a senior NATO official. Counter-drone technology is “something we really have to field now, not in years,” Gen. Ingo Gerhartz, commander of NATO Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum, told the Warsaw Security Forum. “It has to be fielded in months, in a multi-domain approach.”
New pictures offer the best look to date of an Air Force HC-130J Combat King II combat search and rescue aircraft carrying an Angry Kitten electronic warfare pod. Originally developed to simulate enemy electronic warfare attacks during training and testing, Angry Kitten has been evolving into a system that could help protect friendly aircraft from those threats during real combat missions.
As they hustle to accelerate the adoption of next-generation weapons amid real-world conflicts unfolding across the Middle East, the U.S. military’s existing and emerging innovation teams there are focused on delivering small, low-cost drones and systems to defeat those types of threats.
The Air Force brought a permanent deployment of MQ-9 Reaper drones to South Korea on Sept. 29 to serve as a surveillance and reconnaissance unit, and in doing so, revived a World War II-era squadron.
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