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Capt. Tamara Lawrence, the current acting chief of information, will take over the post traditionally held by a rear admiral.

In the face of authoritarian oppression, a US-made information warfare tool set could enhance the lives of those living in restrictive countries.

Republicans are still pushing for a record-setting $1.5 trillion defense budget, but the way ahead on Capitol Hill is not yet clear.

The aircraft will be replaced with the EA-37B, which will carry forward the Compass Call moniker.

“It’s going to take 15 or 20 years to get those types of people,” said Air Force Lt. Gen. Clark Quinn.

[Sponsored] New kits turn Black Hawks into attack Hawks in just three hours.

Our number one priority right now is: How do we improve support to space control operations?” Col. Barry Crocker, head of Space Force Mission Delta 2 responsible for keeping tabs on on-orbit threats, told Breaking Defense

Connecting platforms and data across domains is key to keeping ISR effective under attack.

The European Union also is funding a series of grant making projects designed to bring innovative technologies into the EU SST program, and support startups to strengthen the industrial base.

German defense minister Boris Pistorius called the F-35 “a promise that Germany will step up to defend itself and defend its allies.”

The US military wants authorization to repair its systems without contractor support, which at the moment is easier said than done.

“An increasing share of power — and also vulnerabilities — will be concentrated in these spaces, which are largely invisible to citizens.” the document says.

The push comes as German defense firm Diehl targets a first Safety Integrity Level (SIL) firing test of the surface-launched IRIS-T SLX in 2027.

For NATO, reproducibility should become a distinct measure of Russian military capability, driving how the alliance plans for the future.

The news comes as Sikorsky’s 10th multiyear deal, awarded in 2022 by the Army, is set to conclude by the end of next calendar year.

“At a time when Europe faces its most serious security challenges for generations, the opening of MBDA’s new site demonstrates that the relationship between our two nations has never been more important,” said UK Minister of State for Defence Readiness and Industry Luke Pollard.

The space industry lauded a new Trump administration 1,000-launches-a-year space policy, but experts told Breaking Defense that the current space infrastructure doesn’t have enough capacity and someone’s going to have to pay, potentially a lot, to change that.

The proliferation of AI is forcing the USAF to rethink cyber defense, and a new regional defense pact could shake up arms sales in the Middle East.

Polish defense firm PGZ said the next step will be to build a couple fully functional prototypes for testing.

The new drone order “shows that Poland is moving from a country that purchased defense equipment worldwide to [now being] a producer as well,” said Poland’s Minister of National Defence Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.