The upgrade to be performed under then new contract would allow Lockheed Martin’s AEP ground system to replace RTX’s long-troubled OCX program for future GPS IIIF birds.

Aaron Mehta and Diana Stancy preview what’s to come at this year’s Sea Air Space.

Pentagon officials are seeking lawmakers’ authorization to buy weapon systems through multi-year deals “across the board, not only with munitions, but actually with the production of aircraft, with the production of spacecraft,” said Air Force Secretary Troy Meink.

The Space Force did not disclose when the contracts were awarded or their individual dollar values.

“We don’t have those organic to the Army. So I think we need to solve our own problems, and think about how do we do our own, let’s call it logistical resupply in the air, of an MV-75,” Maj. Gen. Clair Gill, PAE of Maneuver Air, said.

In this excerpt from his new book, ‘War Plan Taiwan,’ Rowan Allport details the history of US planning for a conflict with China in defense of Taiwan.

“While the aircraft was flying, the software was queued up so that we could have different companies’ behaviors take control of the platform and fly [it],” said Dan Salluce, Northrop’s senior director for aerospace systems.

Its early, but a top Marine general said he would expect a next-gen fighter to “look something like” the Navy’s F/A-XX.

NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (ACT) Adm. Pierre Vandier told Breaking Defense that lessons from the Ukraine war and the Iran conflict are driving an air surveillance reframe.

The Army is looking for a launched effect capability that can potentially travel up to 1,000 km, with a demo planned later this year.

The US ally will add $53B AUD in defense spending from earlier projections over the coming decade

The service’s new Objective Force plan calls for demonstrating on-orbit refueling and fielding operational “space tugs” by 2030.

“If you look at the [fight] in Ukraine on either side, it’s really hard to move out and get fires ready to go…. The Paladin is just incapable of it at speed,” Army Secretary Dan Driscoll said today.

“Defense hawks want defense money in the reconciliation bill. I’m trying to keep it as small and focused as possible,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, who chairs the Senate Budget Committee.

The two companies signed an MoU to see if “closer industrial cooperation can help implement projects more efficiently, quickly, and cost-effectively,” according to Spain’s Navantia.