First-of-its-kind electromagnetic spectrum exercise tests senior leaders in Arctic conditions
Aurora Pulse focused top operational and planning staffs of combatant commands on how to fight in a degraded spectrum environment in the Arctic.
Army wants to field all 11 divisions NGC2 capabilities in five-year window
I Corps, headquartered in the Pacific, will be the next focus for NGC2 next year.
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New PAE Marine Corps will put ‘jet fuel’ on Project Dynamis
The creation of a Corps-wide Portfolio Acquisition Executive will bridge the Valley of Death when it comes to capabilities being tested as part of Project Dynamis.
Army requests funds to speed development, production of EW systems
The Army's FY27 budget request allows faster fielding and continued experimentation on key electronic warfare and signals intelligence capabilities.
Army releases commercial solutions opening for rapid EW and signals intelligence capabilities
The commercial solutions offering aims to produce a "library" that will provide options for units to determine what capabilities meet their structure and mission.
Army unveils sweeping XM30 push, $4B bet on NGC2 in newly released budget materials
“The Army is in the midst of its most significant modernization in over 40 years,” Maj. Gen. Rebecca McElwain, director of the Army budget, told reporters during the Pentagon’s budget rollout Tuesday. “This involves developing and fielding new capabilities while adapting formations, training and concepts to the character of modern warfare.”
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Northrop slated to deliver surface EW system to carriers in 2028
Northrop Grumman's Montá Harrell told Breaking Defense the company has a SEWIP configuration for destroyers and one for aricraft carriers.
RTX modifies Growler’s next-gen jammer to work from land or sea
Raytheon Surface Electronic Attack System is meant to "generate non-kinetic effects to prevent adversaries from targeting our high-value assets or [to] protect those high-value assets," Raytheon's Chuck Angus told Breaking Defense.
With Joint Innovation Outpost, Army ‘operationalized an acquisition cell’
Rather than episodic execution, the new JIOP aims to foster a more enduring set of industry experimentation for the XVIII Airborne Division and, officials hope, the wider Army.
Navy selects Leidos, Defense Unicorns to test software prototypes for ships
Leidos and Defense Unicorns will test prototypes in a lab-based environment under the other transaction agreement.
Army Data Operations Center is open for requests
"We are the ones are going to alleviate the burden from those divisions and those division ODTs [operational data teams], so they can focus down and in and on their commanders' priorities,” said Michael Kaloostian.
Army’s Scarlet Dragon exercise adds commercial data to battlefield data flows
“We've had to iterate and figure out what worked, what didn't work, different pathways, different APIs, different cross domain solutions, to find out okay, this is the best one, this is more reliable one, okay, let's turn the spigot on full blast to see what we get," Chief Warrant Officer 4 Sean Benson told Breaking Defense.
Army’s enterprise contracting vehicles likely to speed procurement but not without risk
An expert and former defense officials told Breaking Defense that the service’s push to award high ceiling, prolonged contracts could speed up acquisition processes but ultimately only time will determine their effectiveness.
First set of defensive cyber kits to be delivered to CYBERCOM units
The capability, dubbed Joint Cyber Hunt Kit, will provide defensive cyber warriors at US Cyber Command standardized kits to conduct hunt missions for the first time, Parsons President of Defense and Intelligence Mike Kushin told Breaking Defense.