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The Army has approved the official resourcing and team structure for detachments that will synchronize information capabilities at the theater level.
The department had been in a months-long process across the entire service for updating its force structure. And while it announced the intent to create three Theater Information Advantage Detachments (TIAD) within the last two years, the late February Army Force Structure Transformation plan finally approved the growth of three such organizations: one focused on the Pacific, one on Europe and a transregional one for Army Cyber Command.
A former defense secretary gave a stark warning Wednesday about how vulnerable he believes the nation is to foreign influence amid the upcoming 2024 election cycle.
Retired Gen. Jim Mattis said during a special appearance at DefenseTalks, presented by DefenseScoop, that while election systems and voting infrastructure are perhaps the most secure they’ve ever been against cyberattacks, “the bigger problem and the one that I think that we are very vulnerable to right now is the influence operations.
The Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) says the first ex-Korean Air Boeing 747-8i airliner destined to become one of the U.S. Air Force’s next ‘doomsday planes’ will be arriving at its facilities soon. This announcement comes just shy of a month after the company received the multi-billion-dollar Survivable Airborne Operations Center (SAOC) contract to produce the successors to the Air Force’s four aging 747-200-based E-4B Nightwatch aircraft.
Two MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft attached to the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit. Marine Corps photo by 1st Lt. Mark Andries.
The parents and widows of four Marines who died when their MV-22 Osprey seized up and crashed on a routine training flight say the companies that built the troubled plane made “intentionally” or “recklessly false statements” about its safety, and put the Marines into an “unsafe and unairworthy aircraft.
Among the strategic achievements listed by QinetiQ over the past year was the development of the DragonFire laser weapon system.
Development of the new M72 FFE round has been finalised, and is expected to enter all-up production in 2020. (Nammo)
The US Marine Corps (USMC) will field its first variants of the M72 Light Assault Weapon Fire from Enclosure munitions (LAW FFE) by the end of calendar year 2024, according to a 20 May announcement.
The planned acquisition was first announced in 2020, according to a solicitation released in July 2020. In December 2021 Nammo Defense Systems won a USD498 million contract to build M72 variants with an expected fielding date of fiscal year 2022, according to a press release.
A computer-generated imagery (CGI) impression of Ripsaw M5 RCVs on the battlefield. Developed by Textron Systems and Howe & Howe, the Ripsaw M5 is a contender to fulfil the US Army’s RCV-M requirement. (Textron Systems)
One of defence vehicle manufacturer Textron’s unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) will be equipped with dual-use artificial intelligence (AI) company Kodiak’s autonomy stack for a new product, the companies announced on 20 May.
A subscale model of the Marte ER anti-shipping missile that will equip the Romanian Naval Forces’ H215M helicopters. (Janes/Vinod Kumar CV)
Romania is to carry the MBDA Marte Extended Range (ER) anti-ship missile from its soon-to-be-received Airbus H215M helicopters.
The European missile house said on 23 May that it had signed a contract with IAR Brasov to support the integration of the Marte ER onto Romanian Naval Forces H215M helicopters.
Saab Kockums builds the composite superstructure for Singapore’s Independence-class littoral mission vessel. Above, the superstructure for the fifth ship in the class is being prepared for transport to Singapore. (Glenn Pettersson)
Saab Kockums offers composite products to provide navies options for surface warships.