The Sirko-S1 modular UGV developed by Ukrainian company SkyLab is designed to support resupply, medevac, reconnaissance, and mining operations. Its dimensions are 1100×800×500 mm with a maximum speed of up to 7.5 m/s. (Mykhailo Fedorov/Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine)
A Ukrainian-made unmanned ground vehicle (UGV), Sirko-S1, is undergoing trials in Estonia during Exercise ‘Spring Storm’, held between 6 and 17 May.
The trials will focus on testing the vehicle’s minelaying capabilities in collaboration with ASAX Innovation, the Estonian company said on 11 May.
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Germany will pay for three US HIMARSs for Ukraine. (Janes/Patrick Allen)
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius announced during a visit to Washington, DC on 8–9 May that Berlin would pay for US High-Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARSs) for Ukraine. Germany will pay for three HIMARSs from US stocks.
During Pistorius’s visit to Ottawa on 10 May, Canadian Minister of National Defence Bill Blair signed an agreement with his German counterpart to contribute CAD76 million (USD55.6 million) to the Immediate Action on Air Defence (IAAD) initiative.
A new stealthy Chinese corvette or light frigate has ostensibly made its maiden voyage. The ship’s design has some broad similarities to Sweden’s radar-evading Visby class corvettes, including a main gun that sits concealed inside low observable cupola when not in use, but is larger by all indications. How fast work on this vessel seems to be progressing also speaks to the scale and scope of China’s shipbuilding capacity, something that presents huge challenges for even the country’s most well-equipped competitors, principally the United States.
A pilotless version of the U.S. Army’s UH-72B Lakota helicopter is now in the running to become a part of the U.S. Marine Corps’ planned future fleets of cargo-carrying drones. The Marines see uncrewed logistics ‘connectors’ in the air and down below as essential for supporting future expeditionary and distributed operations, especially in the context of a possible future high-end fight with China in the Pacific.
A rendering of the UH-72 Unmanned Logistics Connector drone helicopter during shipboard operations.
Pentagon leadership is satisfied with the security protocol adjustments Microsoft made in the aftermath of the data spill that exposed the sensitive, personal information of more than 20,000 people early last year, according to the department’s Chief Information Officer John Sherman.
In an interview last week on the sidelines of the annual GEOINT Symposium, the CIO provided new details about his team and the tech vendor’s ongoing response to that massive, but still publicly murky, data breach incident.
The Army is on the cusp of launching a new initiative to refine its ability to monitor cybersecurity risks to its systems, beginning with two pilot efforts that will inform a service-wide transition to leveraging continuous authority to operate (cATO) frameworks.
The service has identified two existing Army programs that will be the first to receive cATOs, Army Chief Information Officer Leonel Garciga told DefenseScoop on Tuesday during a roundtable with reporters.
A familiar face is now leading the J6 Endpoint Services and Global Service Center at the Defense Information Systems Agency.
Sharon Woods, who was serving as director of the J9 Hosting and Compute Center at DISA, was appointed to take the helm of the J6 directorate, according to an announcement on LinkedIn.
She stepped into her new role on Monday.
“We deliver networking and endpoint solutions at all classification levels to the Department of Defense.
The United Kingdom has announced plans to build up to six new Multi-Role Support Ships (MRSS), a new class of amphibious warfare vessels that will join an ambitious shipbuilding program that now includes a total of 28 warships and submarines. The new MRSS vessels will also accommodate drones, a growing area of interest for the U.K. Royal Navy.
Heralding a new “Golden Age for British shipbuilding,” U.K.
A powerful Congressional subcommittee says the Navy’s troubled CMV-22B Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft are unable to perform their main function of aircraft carrier onboard delivery (COD) and wants to know what is being done to fix the problem.
“The committee understands that current CMV-22 operations are limited to flights and missions that stay within 30 minutes of a suitable divert airfield,” the House Armed Services Committee Seapower and Projection Forces subcommittee wrote in its Fiscal Year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) initial markup.
Key lawmakers have drafted a legislative provision that would require the Pentagon to streamline the authorization to operate for cloud-based platforms, services and applications.
A mark for the fiscal 2025 Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act, released Monday, calls for the modernization of the Department of Defense’s ATO processes.