U.S. Special Operations Command wants to arm lightweight drones with new glide bombs, and it’s gearing up to evaluate vendors’ solutions.
A technology assessment event hosted by the SOFWERX innovation hub, in partnership with Army Special Operations Command and Army Space and Missile Defense Command, is slated for April.
The aim is to “advance efforts in developing and producing an advanced light-weight precision glide munition,” according to a special notice.
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The commanding officer of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman was relieved due to a “loss of confidence in his ability to command,” the Navy announced Thursday.
The dismissal of Capt. Dave Snowden, the carrier’s CO, comes a little more than a week after a collision between the Truman and the merchant vessel Besiktas-M near Port Said, Egypt on Feb. 12.
According to a Feb. 16 statement from the U.S. 6th Fleet, damage to the Truman included “the exterior wall of two storage rooms and a maintenance space.
Pentagon leadership ordered all defense agencies and components to comprehensively review their existing contracts for consulting services to determine which are “non-essential” — and could therefore be considered for termination in the near future, according to a new memorandum.
Signed by Steven Morani, who is performing the duties of the undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, the two-page memo includes instructions for officials across the Defense Department to “assess the essentiality” of such projects.
The British Army could be in line to receive a boost to its lethality, with new infantry machine guns, assault and sniper rifles sought.
Hanwha is tapping into the Middle East as talks are ongoing with Saudi Arabia and the UAE for the potential procurement of the K9 howitzer.
An Army film produced in 1945 on the Tuskegee airmen begins with footage of a fighter taxiing behind a narrator’s familiar voice.
“It’s morning,” says the unmistakable voice of then-Army captain Ronald Reagan, who always enjoyed his ‘morning’ metaphors. On screen, fighters take to the air. “Twenty miles from the enemy,” Reagan says.
Israeli company Smartshooter, and IEA Mil-Optics, have secured an order to supply SMASH fire control systems to German Armed Forces.
Australian Army UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters have achieved initial operating capability (IOC), marking a significant milestone.
Katie Arrington has been named the deputy chief information officer for cybersecurity and chief information security officer at the Department of Defense, a department spokesperson confirmed.
She assumed the role effective Feb. 18.
A familiar face, Arrington comes back to the Pentagon where she was the chief information security officer for the department’s acquisition and sustainment organization during the first Trump administration.
Patrick Tucker, Defense One
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