Lace up comfortable shoes. The Annual Meeting of the U.S. Army Association is here. Next week, he expects more than 31,000 people to attend the Washington Convention Center. That’s twice as many as he attended his Air, Space & Cyber conference two weeks ago at the Air Force Space Forces Association.
The AUSA conference and trade fair comes as the United States and its allies continue to supply the Ukrainian military with long-range firearms and other types of weapons. We hope to hear more from you about these efforts and the resupply of arms stockpiles. We also hope to hear more about how inflation and labor shortages are impacting supply chains.
This year’s theme is “Building the Army of 2030,” so expect to hear a lot about how the service is performing to counter China’s advances in weapons.
Pentagon says contract awarded to Raidos Dynamics And more than 20 other companies will speed up testing of hypersonic weapons. “This agreement on a new hypersonics test bed will increase the nation’s capacity for hypersonic flight testing and leverage multiple commercial launch vehicles for ride-along hypersonic payloads,” the Pentagon said. said Thursday.
Government and industry officials have frequently said a lack of testing infrastructure has slowed U.S. development of these weapons, which can fly at five times the speed of sound.
“To meet our hypersonic goals, we need to be able to initiate flight tests more regularly,” said Mike White, the Pentagon’s director for hypersonics, in a statement Thursday. said. “This is how we accelerate learning across our portfolio of development and demonstration programs.”
Meanwhile, the Pentagon is at the University of Virginia $4.5 million “Advancing hypersonic technology with a focus on engine design, maneuverability control and operational resilience. The goal of this work is to complete technology development and conduct ground testing of individual components. It is to conduct and reach the ground test of the integrated scramjet during the three-year performance period.” Learn more.
U.S. Army Awarded Palantir An $85 million contract to “support predictive and predictive maintenance and supply chain optimization efforts.” The Army Materiel Command will “utilize Palantir’s software to support logistics in a competitive environment, improve equipment reliability and further optimize its chain of supply.”
GM Defense develops battery packs for electric vehicles For the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit. “GM Defense works to meet his DIU’s requirements for scalable designs that can be used in tactical military vehicles, so he will leverage GM’s cutting-edge battery technology, the Ultium platform,” the company said. said.
Software Startup Anduril On Thursday, the company announced it had developed a new “loitering ammunition” version of its ALTIUS drone. His larger ALTIUS 700M can carry a warhead of up to 35 pounds. “The ALTIUS 600M and 700M are designed for expeditionary deployments by air, mobile, ground or naval forces and feature multi-domain launch capabilities,” the company said in a statement. “The vehicle can be launched from any platform: fixed-wing aircraft, high-altitude and low-altitude rotorcraft, ground and utility vehicles, and ships.” It was done when it requested kamikaze drones from its allies.
BAE Systems has invested $150 million to open a 390,000-square-foot factory and R&D facility. in Austin, Texas. “Work at this site will also focus on new and existing programs, including the design, development and manufacture of radio frequency and electro-optical/infrared countermeasure systems, as well as aircraft electrification technology,” the company said. .
Meanwhile, Rolls-Royce built a 26,000-square-foot factory. Manufactures propeller and propulsion components in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The plant includes foundry and machining equipment purchased with a $22 million Defense Production Act grant.
L3Harris Technologies said it would buy Viasat’s Link 16 tactical data link at $1.96 billion. Link-16 is a technology used by the US military and its allies to share information such as target coordinates on the battlefield. The deal comes a few weeks after L3Harris Chairman and CEO Chris Kubasik said. defense one that the company was trying to grow.
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- Announced by Oshkosh Tim Breck Breck, vice president of finance for Oshkosh Defense, will succeed him. John Bryant I will retire, but I will advise the company until June.
- Aerospace and defense focused private equity firm AE Industrial Partners named Chris Emersonformer chairman and CEO of operating partner Airbus US Space & Defense.
- Defense Industry Association Board of Directors Elected as Chair Michael Bayer, President and CEO of Dumbarton Strategies.Bayer replaced Arnold Punaro.
The Mitchell Aerospace Institute Joseph Gastera, retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General, Senior Fellow. The former director of the U.S. Air Force Central Command is an internal think tank for the Aerospace Forces Association that “addresses challenges on the cutting edge of Air Force strategy, operational concepts, and technology.”
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Officials said the most “complex” aspect of the implementation plan was “building the forces to operate in the future, which must still operate today.”
Swarms of unarmed, jam-tolerant drones update as new information comes in from the Ukrainian battlefield.
North Korea fired two more ballistic missiles on Thursday as US ships in the USS Reagan carrier strike group conducted exercises with South Korea and Japan.
Another Navy review found that 34 people, including five admirals, contributed to or directly contributed to the loss of the USS Bonhomme Richard, but Ryan Mays was the only one to be court-martialed. is.
Pentagon officials say Ukraine can reach the “majority” of targets with what it already has.
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