Impeachment Slows All Hill Defense Biz; DoD Approps On Life Support
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There’s not a lot of confidence out there about the prospects for a 2020 budget agreement. “A stripped down mini-NDAA may be all that could pass this year for defense,” says one long-time budget watcher.
Air Force Boosts Funding Cap for Promising Startups
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The goal of the matching fund is to support tech startup firms to bridge the ‘valley of death’ and rapidly scale up capability.
Army Secretary Ramps Up 3D Printing
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A new policy orders organizations across the Army to embrace advanced manufacturing to “fundamentally change” both modernization and readiness.
Israel Needs ‘Many Billions Immediately’ To Counter Iran: Netanyahu
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TEL AVIV: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, still trying to form a new government, said Israel must increase its defense spending by “many billions immediately and then many billions every year” as the threat from Iran “has intensified in recent weeks. Israel, he said yesterday, faces a significantly growing threat from Iran. The Israeli military recently attacked… Keep reading →
Top DoD Lawyer Gathers All Ukraine Aid Docs For Congress: ‘Routine’
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General Counsel Paul Nay directed DoD officials to “preserve all documents, records, and writings, and any associated attachments, in any format,” that relate to the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative.
Commandant: Marines ‘Not Optimized For Great Power Competition’
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The new commandant says the Corps has to start “unshackling ourselves from previous notions of what war looks like and reimagining how Marines will train, how we will operate, and how we will fight.”
Managing The Invisible Battle: Raytheon’s EWPMT
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With the new Raytheon software, the Army will no longer be fighting blind against enemy radio jamming — but its own jammers to strike back remain years away.
Roper Unveils PEO For Next Gen Digital Planes; Critics Grumble
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The new Advanced Aircraft PEO will “transform the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program into the Air Force’s Digital Century Series initiative.”
DARPA In Talks With New Robot Sat Servicing Company
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The robot satellite known as RSGS will provide four types of service: inspection of anomalies that appear in a satellite’s operations; assist with adjustments to a satellite’s orbit; correct mechanical problems; and, help install new payloads to upgrade capabilities.