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Army wants to buy as many drones as it does munitions
The Army wants to buy drones in the “kind of quantities” it buys munitions, Army acquisition chief Doug Bush said Wednesday during an webcast with Defense News. “We need them potentially at very large scale and very quickly,” said…
Budget drama could snag Pentagon’s satellite launch award
The Pentagon’s new satellite launch competition between SpaceX, United Launch Alliance, and Blue Origin could be delayed if Congress passes a long continuing resolution instead of a full budget for 2025, a space acquisitions official said…
Test B-21 flying up to twice a week, Northrop reports
Flight testing of the Air Force’s B-21 Raider stealth bomber is moving along swimmingly, officials report, giving a rare, and small, update on the highly classified program. “We’re really starting to strike up quite a cadence.…
Air Force’s Ospreys will return to forward-deployment within ‘weeks’
The Air Force is weeks away from sending its V-22 Ospreys back to combatant commands after the Pentagon lifted a months-long grounding on the tiltrotor fleet earlier this year. “We will deploy out here in the coming weeks, back to…
The D Brief: Why pagers explode; Russian ammo dump blows up; CNO releases guidance; N. Korea tests…
Israeli intelligence operatives appear to have pulled off a legendary and deadly supply chain hack, installing tiny quantities of explosives into at least 3,000 pagers specially ordered by Iran-backed Hezbollah militants across Lebanon and…
NATO considering Arctic combined air operations center to deal with Russian threats
The recent addition of Sweden and Finland to the NATO alliance is opening up new opportunities for members to better work together in the Arctic, where Russian activity has been increasing. That could mean a new combined air operations…
National security deserves better than House Speaker’s 6-month CR plan
With the October 1 start of the fiscal year only weeks away, preventing a government shutdown should top the agenda for returning lawmakers. A stopgap funding bill that provides the House and Senate more time to pass a full-year budget for…
Russia’s hasty mobilization could see more drones crash on NATO territory
Russia’s plan to add 180,000 troops will increase the risk of accidents like drones and missiles entering NATO territory, the commander of U.S. Air Forces Europe and NATO Allied Air Command told reporters Tuesday. Hastily-trained…
Lessons from Ukrainian F-16 crash will shape US training: Air Force general
The U.S. may change its F-16 training program for Ukrainian pilots following an investigation into the fatal crash of one of the country’s donated jets.“Anything that comes out of that, any preliminary things, we're taking a look at to…
Russian disinfo groups target Harris-Walz campaign, Microsoft says
Russian disinformation groups are taking aim at Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s White House ticket, posting fabricated videos and other sham content to discredit the campaign, new Microsoft findings…
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