The Defense Department recently refreshed and reissued its enterprisewide standards that govern civilian and military use of information technology capabilities that fall under its purview.
Marking the first update of this sprawling policy instruction since 2017, Chief Information Officer John Sherman approved the changes ahead of the new document’s public release earlier this month. These standards apply to all national security systems and defense business systems.
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The U.S. Navy has already started planning for how exactly it will execute the defueling and disposal of the first-in-class nuclear-powered USS Nimitz aircraft carrier despite the service’s intentions to squeeze more service life out of the vessel. To better inform the complicated process, the Navy will likely leverage lessons learned throughout the one-of-a-kind USS Enterprise’s unprecedented ship-breaking efforts.
For months, Ukrainian forces have held off a hard-hitting Russian offensive in battered cities and heavily bombed trenches that stretch along the eastern front line.
But now, with Kremlin forces running out of steam after making only gradual gains during the winter onslaught, Ukraine is preparing to strike back.
“If our top military commanders say we have enough troops, enough shells – everything we need – to attack, then we are ready,” a Ukrainian military officer named Mark said this week in the Donetsk region.
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Russian forces may have actually started deploying antiquate T-54/T-55 series tanks on the battlefield in Ukraine. The sighting of one of these tanks, reportedly in southeastern Ukraine, comes around a month after trainloads of them were spotted on the move in Russia, prompting speculation that they would soon be taking part in the conflict.
Pictures and videos with a T-54/T-55 type tank in the background, said to have been taken recently in Zaporizhzhia, first emerged online earlier this week.
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According to Jonathan Askonas, an assistant professor of Politics at Catholic University of America, the U.S. military could not win a war against China with its current volunteer-only forces.
Given the state of global affairs and rising tensions between China, Taiwan, and the U.S., the military would need to radically transform its current structure in order to adequately address the burgeoning threat. Askonas argues that those changes could even include reinstating conscription.
The Army has awarded Lockheed Martin a $72.8 million contract to continue work on the service’s first integrated cyber, electronic warfare and signals intelligence platform and to begin design for heavy units.
The award, announced on April 12, is for the Terrestrial Layer System-Brigade Combat Team (TLS-BCT), which will be will first be mounted on Strykers but includes a man-packable solution for infantry units as well.
This contract is a follow-on to Lockheed’s initial award for the program, which is phased and will continue to include future components.
The US Army Contracting Command in Newark, New Jersey, has awarded a $344.22m contract for manufacturing, testing, packaging and delivering 155mm M1128 artillery metal parts assembly. Two defence contractors, General Dynamics – Ordnance and Tactical Systems and IMT Defense Corporation, will compete for each contract order.
Stryker vehicle variants include the M1128 mobile gun system (MGS). The Stryker family comprises two main variants: the M1128 MGS with a 105mm tank cannon and the M1126 ICV (infantry carrier vehicle), the baseline APC.
The Ministers of Defence and Foreign Affairs for Romania, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine met in Bucharest on 13 April 2023. The three eastern European countries met to “discuss the security situation in our region and the prospects for further co-operation” on infrastructure concerns, according to their joint statement.
The three nations agreed that they would benefit from “stronger political, economic, infrastructure, security, defence and cultural links” as they seek to form a trilateral format for dialogue and co-operation.
EDGE subsidiary Milrem Robotics is set to showcase its uncrewed combat and firefighting ground vehicles (UGVs) at the LAAD Defence and Security 2023 event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Taking place from 11 to 14 April, the exhibition will showcase two uncrewed ground vehicles (UGVs), namely the THeMIS and the Multiscope.
GlobalData aerospace and defence analyst William Davies said: “The upcoming showcase at LAAD indicates they are likely looking to sell to a broader market, with attendees from all over the globe, as well as South America in attendance.
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