Category: Defence

Protecting troops’ benefits in an evolving government | Defense News Weekly Full Episode 8.23.25 The president of the Military Officers Association of America talks about the state of efforts to ensure troops’ and vets’ benefits in a new administration. 8 days ago

A full scale model of Raytheon’s Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor, a next-generation radar that will defeat advanced threats like hypersonic weapons. (Photo courtesy of Raytheon) The U.S. Army awarded Raytheon a $1.7 billion contract to produce a new missile defense sensor that will replace the current Patriot system’s radar, according to an

The new Joint Interagency Task Force 401, announced Thursday, could help reshape a growing market projected to reach tens of billions of dollars over the next decade. (Pvt. 2nd Class James Newsome/Army) The Pentagon is scrapping its old playbook for defending against small drones, moving beyond years of evaluations and studies toward a model that

Vulcan Elements has landed more than $10 million in Defense Department contracts across every branch of the U.S. military. Here, an engineer demonstrates Vulcan’s commissioned strip caster. (Courtesy Vulcan Elements) Vulcan Elements, a 2-year-old startup manufacturing rare earth magnets in North Carolina, has quietly landed more than $10 million in Defense Department contracts across every

Wait, you can put a suppressor on a minigun? AND a cannon? Manufacturers have made it possible to make even the gnarliest weapons silent but deadly. 2 days ago

L3Harris’ new solid rocket motor inert parts production facility in Huntsville, Alabama. (Photo courtesy of L3Harris) HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – L3Harris Technologies’ Aerojet Rocketdyne officially opened a new and expansive rocket motor parts plant in Huntsville, Alabama, in a ceremony Monday, which marks another clear step in the defense industrial base’s work to drastically increase production

The Missile Defense Agency first fielded the Lockheed Martin-developed Command Control Battle Management and Communications (C2BMC) system in 2004 and has since continued to upgrade it to address growing and emerging threats. (Photo courtesy of the Missile Defense Agency) HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – Lockheed Martin has launched a prototyping hub to develop possible command-and-control solutions to

U.S. Patriot missile batteries stand ready in Poland on April 10, 2022. (Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Smith/U.S. Army) HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – The U.S. Army is planning to grow its air and missile defense force by 30%, according to the commander of the service’s Space and Missile Defense Command. In addition to adding three Patriot battalions

The U.S. Army is about three months away from releasing its air and missile defense strategy for 2040, officials said. Here, 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command soldiers stand next to a Patriot missile battery during a NATO multinational exercise in Vilnius, Lithuania. (Mindaugas Kulbis/AP) HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The U.S. Army is about three

Alaska National Guard members operate the ground-based midcourse defense portion of the Ballistic Missile Defense System at Fort Greely, Alaska. (Sgt. Jack W. Carlson III/Alaska Army National Guard) HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The U.S. Army will soon assume a broader mission in defending the U.S. homeland, expanding from a focus on countering intercontinental ballistic missiles to