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Cyber Attack Most Likely Space Threat: Maj. Gen. Whiting « Breaking Defense
Maj. Gen. Stephen Whiting WASHINGTON: Cyber defense is a top mission priority for the Space Force, says Maj. Gen. Stephen Whiting, deputy commander of the new service. “We know that cyber attack is where we are most likely to face the enemy in space,” Whiting said, if for no other reason than the barriers to …
Esper Signals Importance Of All Domain & ABMS At AFA « Breaking Defense
Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley WASHINGTON: In what must have been music to Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper’s ears, Defense Secretary Mark Esper today sang the praises of the service’s Advanced Battle Management Network (ABMS) as critical to future combat operations against Russia and China. “This …
US, Allies Agree On Threats In Space But Struggle With Messaging « Breaking Defense
Maj. Gen. John Shaw WASHINGTON: Over the past few years, US and allied militaries have converged as never before around fears of growing Russian and Chinese threats to space, DoD and outside experts say. But fundamental disagreements about how best to respond to the threats remain, with US allies facing much stronger domestic political resistance …
DISA Bets One $11.7B Deal Can Streamline 4th Estate Networks « Breaking Defense
With Defense Enclave Services, DISA hopes to bring together all the fourth estate under one architecture. ALBUQUERQUE: JEDI is no longer the be-all and end-all of Pentagon IT and its so-called Fourth Estate. To streamline the Pentagon’s network infrastructure of its non-service-specific agencies, the Defense Information Systems Agency is launching a massive, single vendor, $11.7 …
Industry Says ‘Meh’ To DoD Cislunar Space Push « Breaking Defense
DARPA’s DRACO nuclear-powered rocket for cislunar operations WASHINGTON: The possibility of future military activity around the Moon is en vogue in the national security space community, with a plethora of seminars featuring senior Space Force, Air Force and DoD officials musing on the likely need for the US counter China in deep space. John Hopkins …
Army Starts Construction On Prototype Lasers « Breaking Defense
An early experimental laser-armed Stryker vehicle, the MEHEL WASHNGTON: After years of lower-power field tests and more than one thousand hours of soldier feedback, the Army is on track to field-test two different types of high-energy lasers in 2022: a 50-kilowatt weapon to destroy enemy drones and incoming artillery rockets, and a 300-kW weapon that …
Space War: US To Meet With Russia; Rolls Out Warfighting Doctrine « Breaking Defense
Use of ASATs could result in massive amounts of destruction and dangerous junk on orbit. National Space and Intelligence Center image WASHINGTON: A US delegation, including DoD officials, on July 27 in Vienna, Austria will hold a first Space Security Exchange (SSE) with Russia. It’s the first formal bilateral meeting on space security since 2013, …
JADC2: Black Sea Exercise Tests Joint Command Concepts « Breaking Defense
An F-16 fighter launches a JASSM (Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile) WASHINGTON: An Air Force-led international exercise yesterday in the Black Sea will feed lessons learned into the Pentagon’s top-priority push to create a new kind of command and control for future wars. “This will support our Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) concept of …
Lawmakers Blast Lockheed, DoD Over F-35 Parts Problems « Breaking Defense
Lockheed Martin F-35 production line WASHINGTON: In a stormy two-hour hearing, members of the House Oversight Committee lambasted Lockheed Martin and Pentagon officials for putting pilots at risk of accidents by failing to fix the F-35’s troubled maintenance system. “Fix this now, before you have blood on your hands,” said Rep. Rashida Talib. Criticism and …
Firms Rev Up For B-52 Re-Engine Battle « Breaking Defense
B-52 Stratofortress WASHINGTON: The race for the Air Force’s program to replace the aging engines on the B-52 bomber kicks into high gear on today, with the closing of the window for the three contestants to submit formal proposals. The much-upgraded, 68-year-old Stratofortress remains the mainstay of the much-diminished US bomber fleet, making its continued …
