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Air Force Plans to Grow Recruiter Ranks for 2025 Goal

September 23, 2024
The Air Force plans to grow its recruiter ranks to help it meet an ambitious 2025 goal. (Master Sgt. Kevin Nichols/Air Force) The Air Force said Monday it will meet its recruitment goals in fiscal 2024, one year after all components of the service missed the mark for the first time in decades. And the Air Force is setting an even more ambitious recruitment goal in 2025. Air Force Recruiting…
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E-2D Advanced Hawkeye: The Next Gen of Electronic Warfare

September 23, 2024
E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft conduct a test flight near St. Augustine, Florida. (Courtesy of Northrup Grumman).The Navy in August awarded a $587.4 million contract to L3Harris Technologies to develop the Next Generation Jammer Low Band system for select aircraft, according…
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Italy Defense Procurement: New F-35A Jets and Eurofighters

September 23, 2024
An F-35A Lightning II flies over Arizona, April 24, 2024. (A1C Mason Hargrove/Air Force) ROME — Italy is to purchase 25 extra F-35 jets as well as new Eurofighters as its defense procurement spending rises 16.8% this year to €9.3 billion, or $10.3 billion, a new…
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What lessons did the US Army learn from the Gaza aid pier mission?

September 2, 2024
It was their most challenging mission. U.S. Army soldiers in the 7th Transportation Brigade had previously set up a pier during training and in exercises overseas but never had dealt with the wild combination of turbulent weather, security threats and sweeping personnel restrictions that surrounded the Gaza humanitarian aid project. Designed as a temporary solution to get badly needed food and…
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How in-house tech and soldier tinkering is changing the Army

August 30, 2024
FORT JOHNSON, Louisiana – A new Army-made software application is allowing soldiers to identify a target and send a fire mission in under a minute when it used to take 15 minutes. Those same soldiers have rigged cheap drones with a cheap, off-the-shelf circuit board and…
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UK to build F-35-sized ‘silent hangar’ to test jamming, electronic war

August 23, 2024
PARIS — Britain’s Ministry of Defence plans to build a hangar-sized isolated chamber big enough for F-35 jets and Chinook transport helicopters to test its military assets against GPS jamming and other types of electronic warfare. U.K. firm QinetiQ will build the “silent hangar” at the ministry’s Boscombe Down site in south-west England under a £20-million (US$ 26 million) contract, the…
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Signal battalions to be rebuilt for modern combat, Army says

August 23, 2024
The Army is restructuring its signal battalions as advancements in technology and a laser-focus on its network dovetail with a shift from brigade to division-centric combat plans. Final details for restructuring the battalions came after years of merging job specialties in…
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Lockheed, Istari partner to demonstrate digital aircraft certification

August 22, 2024
Istari Digital, a startup led by former Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper, is partnering with Lockheed Martin Skunk Works to demonstrate the ability to digitally certify an aircraft before it’s built, a process that could make it easier to develop and test military aircraft in the future. The partnership, announced Monday, is part of a $19 million contract the Air Force awarded Istari last…
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