The Navy is aiming to invest more than $1.5 billion into its new stealth fighter, the F/A-XX, in 2024. Here’s what you need to know.
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For the Department of the Air Force on its journey to develop a modern identity, credential and access management (ICAM) framework, the end goal is as much about security as it is about providing a better user experience, according to CIO Lauren Knausenberger.
The service’s new ICAM Roadmap — released last month with an enterprise Zero Trust Roadmap — envisions an end state in five years of “true attribute-based micro-segmentation for ICAM … at a global scale” with context for user activity, Knausenberger said Wednesday at ITModTalks, presented by FedScoop.
The Pentagon’s fiscal 2024 funding request for the Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve (RDER) nearly doubled compared to its request for 2023. That funding will allow the department to conduct multiple technology “sprints” next year, according to Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Heidi Shyu.
The RDER effort is aimed at identifying and putting prototypes through their paces so that promising technologies can be more rapidly fielded to combatant commanders to address joint warfighting requirements. The Pentagon requested $359 million for the program in fiscal 2023.
Although the French-supplied Ukrainian AMX-10RC combat vehicle is not a main battle tank (MBT), its configuration as a wheeled reconnaissance and fire support vehicle give it significant advantages over MBTs. There is currently no data about the AMX-10RC model that France will sell to Ukraine.
A more advanced version of the AMX-10RC, the AMX-10RCR, improves upon its predecessor in terms of speed, firepower, and safety measures. The AMX-10RC’s 6×6 wheel arrangement gives it superior mobility to most tracked MBTs, letting it quickly and easily cover a wide variety of terrain.
The Defense Information Systems Agency is engaged in beta testing of a “post minimum viable product” as it looks to further test and expand its cloud capability outside the continental United States, according to a top IT official.
DISA has defined and broken down its cloud efforts into three tiers. They include: strategic, which is focused on the U.S.
The UK has moved to fill some of the gaps resulting from ongoing equipment grants to Ukraine with the announced acquisition of the Archer 155mm mobile artillery piece, which will backfill capability lost following the provision of AS90 self-propelled howitzers to Kyiv.
As recently reported by Army Technology, the UK had been seeking an interim artillery system to bridge the gap between the outgoing and ageing AS90 systems and a new platform, deliverable under the Mobile Fires Platform programme, which is due to enter service later this decade.
The head of the world’s nuclear regulatory agency vowed on Wednesday to be “very demanding” in overseeing the transfer of nuclear-powered submarines from the United States to Australia, amid complaints that the US move could clear the way for bad actors to escape nuclear supervision in the future.
Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, spoke to reporters during a visit to Washington. Grossi also met with senior National Security Council officials to discuss issues such as the recently announced US-Australia-UK deal on nuclear-powered submarines.
Nicholas Danforth recently sat down with Agustina Giraudy, Adam Isacson and Anya Prusa to discuss the latest political developments in Latin America. This two-part podcast covers the rise of the Left in the region as well as its implications for relations with Washington, Moscow and Beijing. Image: The White House
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On 19 December 2022, the West Point Association of Graduates forwarded a letter from West Point Superintendent LTG Steven Gilland to graduates of the well-known military institution.
Army units at the brigade and below level might not be able to stop on the battlefield to establish communications or command posts given the expected fast-paced nature of future conflicts, according to one of the service’s key program executive officers.
“I bet you if I said, ‘Somebody out there define for me at-the-quick-halt,’ I bet a lot of you if you wrote it down, would say it’s 30 minutes or less,” Maj. Gen. Anthony Potts, PEO of Command, Control, Communications-Tactical, said at the annual SATELLITE conference on Wednesday. “Think orders of magnitude less than that.