Following the Biden administration’s decision to authorize the training of Ukrainian F-16 pilots in Europe, Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall said today that the pilots could be ready to fly in just months. Still, the planes likely won’t represent a “game changer” for forces on the ground.
“They have shown a lot of capacity. I think it will be a matter of months, not years,” he told reporters during a discussion organized by the Defense Writers Group when asked about the difficulty in equipping Ukrainian pilots, whose training is based on Soviet-era fighters.
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Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall says that his service is doing everything it can to avoid the kinds of “acquisition malpractice” he says is still dogging the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter when it comes to the competition for its new stealth six-generation crewed tactical jet. This will include an insistence on a firmer design from the outset and U.S. government ownership of at least a significant portion of the data rights to it.
“I am very happy with the decision of the Italians, which is that an Italian missile destroyer with powerful anti-aircraft and anti-missile weapons will soon arrive in Poland, which will reinforce the anti-aircraft and anti-missile defense of the Polish coast.
It will arrive in Poland in a few days,” said Deputy Prime Minister Mariusz Błaszczak after finalizing talks with Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto.
Mariusz Błaszczak, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense visited Rome, where he met Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto.
The Biden administration has named Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh as the next commander of U.S. Cyber Command, meaning that Gen. Paul Nakasone’s tenure — a transformational one — will be coming to a close.
Nakasone came in to lead Cybercom during a significant shift in the cyber community.
He took the helm as Cybercom was elevated to a unified combatant command spearheading a new era for the organization and military cyber. Prior to that, it was sub-unified under U.S. Strategic Command.
Additionally, following a barrage of cyber incidents inside the U.S.
U.S. Marines with I Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group prepare to board an MV-22 Osprey during a medical evacuation drill as a part of a certification exercise at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Feb. 28, 2023. (Lance Cpl. Joseph Helms/U.S. Marine Corps).
A Marine unit accidentally sent an unencrypted email that includes the bank account numbers and other personal identifiable information for roughly 39,000 Marines, sailors, and Defense Department civilians, most of whom are assigned to I Marine Expeditionary Force, a Corps spokesperson confirmed.
A U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer, attached to the 34th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, flies over the Pacific Ocean after taking off from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, June 12, 2022. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Tech. Sgt. Chris Hibben).
The Air Force B-1B Lancer bomber — or the “bone” as its pilots and crews call it — may already carry the largest conventional payload in the service’s fleet, but that isn’t going to stop the service from loading it up with as many munitions as humanly possible.
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The fog of war was thick in Russia’s Belgorod Oblast Tuesday as Russian officials, media, military bloggers, and those carrying out the attacks presented differing explanations of what has emerged in the aftermath of Monday’s daring cross-border incursion by “pro-Ukrainian Russian partisan groups.“
We have to make clear that there is a very hot information war being fought on all sides. Because of the fluid nature of the situation we can only convey the state of play as proclaimed by those involved and their surrogates and via open source information.
Indra’s Lanza 3D radar continues to establish itself as one of the most advanced surveillance systems on the market and continues its international expansion. Indra is currently installing its naval version, Lanza-N 3D, on one of the destroyers of the Indian Navy, thus initiating the delivery of the 23 radars that it will supply to the Indian Navy over the next decade.
This milestone is part of the contract signed by the company in 2020 with the Indian company TATA Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) within the framework of a technology transfer program.
As the Department of Defense works to implement zero-trust cybersecurity measures over the next four years, automation tools that can assist in handling large volumes of data and an increasingly complex network must be incorporated to ensure its success, the Pentagon’s chief information security officer said Tuesday.
Speaking at the UiPath Together Public Sector summit, produced by FedScoop, DOD CISO Dave McKeown said that “there are lots of areas where automation can come into play — I think we’re going to fail if we don’t automate as we implement zero trust.
The USAA Poppy Wall of Honor – a temporary installation honoring the more than 645,000 American servicemembers who gave their lives in service to our nation since World War I – will return to the National Mall in Washington, D.C. for Memorial Day weekend.
New this year, the Poppy Wall of Honor will feature a special panel to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the U.S.’s exit from the Vietnam War, and a digital panel that will display individual remembrances that have been aggregated with #PoppyInMemory.