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Booz Allen Hamilton, a Virginia-based consultancy company, will assess the energy vulnerabilities of the United States Department of Defense (DoD).
The organisation will define the DoD’s requirements for energy resilience projects and identify third-party funding sources for energy resilience and security projects.
The contract is valued at $28.8m and work will occur in Arlington, Virginia with an estimated completion date of 12 December 2026.

Powering the defence industrial base
Biden’s administration has embarked on a campaign to strengthen the US defense industrial base.

Spirit AeroSystems built the fuselage for the Bell V-280 Valor tiltrotor aircraft demonstrator. (Spirit AeroSystems)
Spirit AeroSystems, which is part of the Bell Textron-led industry team that recently won the US Army’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) competition, is in talks to finalise its statement of work for the programme, according to a Spirit official.
“We’re currently in daily conversations to develop that statement of work,” said Mark Miklos, senior vice-president of Spirit’s Defense & Space business.

BAE Systems will support radars on UK Royal Navy Type 45 destroyers, such as HMS
Dauntless
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(Derek Fox)
BAE Systems has received a GBP270 million (USD338.71 million) contract to support the radars on Royal Navy (RN) Type 23 and Type 26 frigates, Type 45 destroyers, and the Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers.

Planes and Troops Take Part in Air Defender 2023

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Air Defender 2023, NATO’s largest air drills in its history, kicked off this week in Germany. The drills, which have been 4 years in the planning, started Monday and will go until June 23. The exercises include up to 250 aircraft participating in operations that are to be launched from 6 military bases. A total of 25 countries are participating in the drills including the U.S., which has deployed 100 of its aircraft overseas as part of the drills.

The US and partner forces in Syria continue to launch dozens of raids each month against ISIS-related targets in Syria and northern Iraq. (Spc. Robert Donovic/U.S. Army).

A total of 22 U.S. troops were injured when a helicopter crashed in northeastern Syria on June 11, according to U.S. Central Command, or CENTCOM.
All the troops are being treated for “injuries of various degrees,” and 10 of the service members have been sent to higher care facilities outside of the CENTCOM theater of operations, a CENTCOM news release says.

In an exclusive interview with Harry McNeil, Oli Arup, Chief Product Officer at Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim), provides insights into the integration of BISim’s technology components to deliver a superior workflow in training and simulation.
In this interview, Oli Arup, the Chief Product Officer at BISim, sheds light on how their various components, including VBS4, VBS Blue IG, and Mantle ETM, are integrated to provide a workflow for tactical training, experimentation, and mission rehearsal.

Mark Pomerleau, DefenseScoop
A key congressional subcommittee wants the Pentagon to accelerate the development and fielding of artificial intelligence tech to classify electronic signals on…

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BrDef
Lawmakers’ add has been expected based on the bipartisan chorus of support for a bigger amphib fleet, but it remains a big win for the Marine Corps.

USNI News
The House Armed Services Committee will allow the Navy to move ahead with plans to decommission the troubled Littoral Combat Ships and wants to shutter the Pentagon’s Cost…