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RTX to supply 600 Coyote drone interceptors to Army

February 13, 2024
The U.S. Army is buying hundreds of drone-killing Coyote interceptors from defense contractor RTX to fortify its ability to counter unmanned aerial systems. The service agreed to pay $75 million for 600 of the ground-launched, radar-guided Coyote 2C devices, it said Feb. 9. The effort was led by its Program Executive Office for Missiles and Space, tasked with developing overhead defenses…
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US Army spent billions on a new helicopter that now will never fly

February 9, 2024
The U.S. Army is ending its latest effort to build a new armed scout helicopter, known as the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft, an abrupt change of direction that marks one of the department’s most significant program cancellations of the last decade. The service had already spent at least $2 billion on the program and had requested another $5 billion for the next five years, according to…
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DIU Selects Anduril for Pentagon AUV Platform

February 9, 2024
The Defense Innovation Unit awarded Anduril Industries a contract that will get its Dive family of large-diameter autonomous underwater vehicles into the hands of sailors for operations this year. The award comes after DIU selected the Dive-LD platform to perform in a…
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Defense Innovation Unit’s tech-scaling strategy focuses on partnerships

February 8, 2024
The Defense Innovation Unit is poised to take on more responsibility for coordinating technology efforts within the Pentagon and is working more closely with combatant commands to make sure those capabilities are meeting their needs, according to its new strategy. The 10-page document, released Feb. 7, outlines DIU’s expanding role and lays out steps the organization is taking to ensure that the…
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Supplier bottlenecks threaten US Navy effort to grow arms stockpiles

February 7, 2024
WASHINGTON — If U.S. military planners’ worst-case scenario arose in the Pacific — having to defend Taiwan from a Chinese invasion — American military forces would target Chinese amphibious ships. Without them, according to Mark Cancian, who ran a 2022 wargame for the Center for Strategic and International Studies that examined this exact scenario, China couldn’t invade the neighboring…
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