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High-performance systems generate tremendous amounts of heat that can compromise missions and make high-tech systems less effective in tactical environments. But there is a solution to this modern-age challenge.
By Breaking DefenseAI can make logistics data as valuable as intelligence or operational data for mission success
Valuable intelligence insights can be gleaned from logistics or flight-test data when artificial intelligence or machine learning is applied.
The full-throated support by Armed Services Committee lawmakers could foreshadow Force Design 2030’s future when its biggest proponent leaves the Marine Corps.
By Justin Katz
“Cutting Army end strength to only 452,000 soldiers locks in the service’s worst projections for recruiting, forestalling any possibility to achieve greater-than-predicted success,” writes Thomas Spoehr of the Heritage Foundation.
By Thomas Spoehr
The topline is an increase of $45 billion over what Biden’s budget requested.
By Aaron Mehta
The “right” size of the future Navy fleet has become a hot political football. Can an independent commission break the impasse?
By Justin Katz
Lockheed Martin, Raytheon standout as potential beneficiaries of the legislation, with a variety of their programs on the weapons list. However, defense appropriators ultimately control the purse strings.
By Ashley Roque
ROC-X – The solution to organic precision strike capabilities
At AUSA Global Force 2024, IAI presented integrated, AI-driven combat systems – both manned and unmanned – that are opening new opportunities on the battlefield.
After a directive confused some lawmakers, a provision in the NDAA threatens to nullify a potential shake-up of the Army’s acquisition bureaucracy if representatives don’t receive additional information about who’s doing what.
By Andrew Eversden
During a marathon markup session that started on Wednesday, the House Armed Services Committee approved an amendment that would add $37 billion to the defense topline.
By Valerie Insinna
COLORADO SPRINGS: The House Armed Services Committee’s draft policy bill calls for the head of the Space Force to review all classification of space systems “to determine if any programs should be reclassified or declassified.” The chairman’s mark of the fiscal 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), obtained by Breaking Defense, is the latest in…
By Colin Clark
“I don’t want to get into any specifics,” Mike White told me, “but some of the challenges we’ve had so far getting to flight have been, in certain instances, avoidable.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“On the eve of Christmas Eve, this veto seems to be Trump’s parting gift to Putin and a lump of coal for our troops,” Sen. Jack Reed says.
By Colin Clark
The cutting-edge IVAS targeting goggles took a $230 million hit, while the latest upgrade to the venerable CH-47 Chinook – which the Army doesn’t actually want – got a $165 million boost.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“Look, I’m an Army guy,” Milley said. “And I love the Army…but the fundamental defense of the United States and the ability to project power forward will always be for America naval and air and space power.”
By Paul McLeary
“Protectionists and isolationists in both chambers have decided to up the ante this year on the NDAA,” writes analyst Bill Greenwalt in this new op-ed.
By William C. Greenwalt