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Army eliminates AeroVironment from future tactical UAS competition

WASHINGTON — AeroVironment, an early provider of Future Tactical Uncrewed Aircraft Systems to the U.S. Army, has been eliminated from the service’s competition for the next increment of the system. The Army has long been working to select a Future Tactical Uncrewed Aircraft System, meant to replace its Shadow UAS fleet. In 2022, after a roughly four-year competition, the service awarded…
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GAO blasts T-7 delays, cites ‘tenuous’ Air Force-Boeing relationship

WASHINGTON — Boeing’s effort to build a new trainer aircraft for the Air Force is plagued by safety problems, schedule and testing delays, and the risk the T-7A Red Hawk could fall even further behind schedule, the Government Accountability Office said in a scathing report. Boeing’s relationship with the Air Force has also been strained by the T-7′s issues, GAO said in the May 18 report…
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Lockheed paces JADC2 information-sharing at Northern Edge

WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest defense contractor by revenue, said its products were used in an exercise near Alaska to consistently share military information across services and environments. The testing during Northern Edge, a biennial experiment…
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The US must maximize F-35 production

Air superiority is fundamental to victory in modern conflict. The world is seeing this quite starkly in Ukraine, for example, where the Russians have struggled to advance largely because they cannot control the skies. Ukraine’s layered air defense system makes its airspace…
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US Army revamps program executive offices to sharpen cyber focus

PHILADELPHIA — U.S. Army cyber and technology programs are changing hands amid a shake-up of the service’s acquisitions offices. The Program Executive Office for Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors, or PEO IEW&S, headed by Mark Kitz, will by Oct. 1 absorb defensive cyber operations, cyber analytics and detection, cyber platforms and systems, and the technology applications office.
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Biden nominates Air Force general to lead NSA, Cyber Command

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has chosen a new leader for the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, a joint position that oversees much of America’s cyber warfare and defense. Air Force Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh, the current deputy commander of Cyber Command…
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The next Army recruiting tool amid a slump? It could be the metaverse.

ST. LOUIS — The U.S. Army must embrace online tactics and virtual worlds to attract younger generations and retain them as soldiers, the deputy commanding general of Training and Doctrine Command said, as the service is again expected to miss its recruitment goals. Lt. Gen. Maria Gervais on May 21 told attendees of the GEOINT Symposium in St. Louis that the Army, the military’s largest branch…
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