Pentagon Jumpstarts Hypersonic Targeting, Electronic Warfare, C2
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Can a new kind of contract get key cutting-edge technologies across the bureaucratic “valley of death” before the Russians and Chinese lap the US?
Navy’s New Tomahawk Plan Targets Ships, Bunkers and Distance [Sponsored]
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WASHINGTON: As the Navy continues to look for ways to reach out and touch — or preferably deter — potential adversaries at greater range, it is turning to the latest version of a decades-old weapon to do it.
Army Will Cull Hypersonic & Laser Weapons Portfolios: Jette & Murray
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While Congress wrestles with CH-47 cuts, Army leaders are already looking ahead to hard decisions on high tech.
IBCS: Northrop Delivers New Army Missile Defense Command Post
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After years of tests, setbacks, and painstaking fixes, the Army has its first fire-control center for a radically new kind of missile defense.
Russia Builds New Co-Orbital Satellite: SWF, CSIS Say
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“I think the most important bits are … about the recent Russian RPOs likely being an SSA/intelligence program and possibly supporting the new Burevestnik co-orbital program,” said Brian Weeden, technical advisor to the Secure World Foundation.
Army’s Multi-Domain Unit ‘A Game-Changer’ In Future War
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But modernizing the Army will take decades and tough decisions about everything from online propaganda to the National Guard.
Army Sets 2023 Hypersonic Flight Test; Strategic Cannon Advances
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To take out Russian and Chinese targets from a thousand miles away, the US Army wants two very different weapons: a hypersonic missile and a giant cannon.
Army ‘Big Six’ Ramp Up in 2021: Learning From FCS
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All told, the Army’s investing $57 billion in modernization over five years — but it wants to take time to test new technologies before it commits to them.
Hypersonics Won’t Repeat Mistakes Of F-35
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Let a hundred hypersonic flowers bloom, Pentagon officials say, instead of a single cumbersome mega-program.
Pentagon’s New Ballistic Missile Interceptor Doesn’t Work, Suffers Years-Long Delay
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What happens when the Pentagon’s new ballistic missile defeat program doesn’t work? They keep using the old one, which has a spotty track record.