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• The Pentagon Is Closing in on 'Ethical' AI Implementation

  18-05-2022 23:00 via defenseone.com
  
  The Defense Department released guidance for using AI responsibly last year.
  
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• Pentagon May Give Sweden, Finland More Security Aid

  18-05-2022 22:54 via defenseone.com
  
  Russia has issued vague threats over the countries' applications to join the alliance.
  
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• A Swedish Compromise Won’t Solve NATO’S Turkey Problem

  18-05-2022 21:49 via defenseone.com
  
  As two Nordic nations bid to join, Erdogan’s hostage-taking should force the alliance to reckon with a member that is increasingly a security risk.
  
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• Coast Guard Academy Graduates its First Cyber Majors

  18-05-2022 15:00 via defenseone.com
  
  A "handful" of new cyber specialists will go to the service's Cyber Command headquarters for their initial assignment.
  
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• Could Ukraine Offer a Template for Better US-Gulf Security Relations?

  17-05-2022 22:26 via defenseone.com
  
  The outpouring of aid to Kyiv shows that a formal defense alliance is inessential to effective wartime assistance.
  
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• Rafael’s Aerospike, new close air support missile, makes SOFIC debut

  17-05-2022 22:25 via breakingdefense.com
  
  The new “light weight” missile is designed for air-to-surface strikes, supporting special operations, the Israeli firm says.
  
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• Trump Allies Slam Biden For Ukraine Aid Amid Inflation, Supply Chain Shortages

  17-05-2022 22:23 via defenseone.com
  
  Senators voted no because of problems domestically, a lack of oversight, and a high price tag.
  
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• Defense One Radio, Ep. 100: Phil Klay

  17-05-2022 22:15 via defenseone.com
  
  A conversation about veterans, citizenship, and the American way of war.
  
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• Space Force targets 2027 for resilient on-orbit posture initial capability

  17-05-2022 21:41 via breakingdefense.com
  
  “What we’re trying to do is just like you do with your financial portfolios, where you diversify your financial portfolio, so you don’t go broke if one stock takes a tumble. We want to do the same thing with our satellite architecture,” said CSO Gen. Jay Raymond.
  
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• ‘That still needs further development’: SOCOM leaders want more layered airborne ISR

  17-05-2022 21:04 via breakingdefense.com
  
  Special Operations Command wants to link up sensors, space-based assets and open source data to give operators improved situational awareness.
  
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• Why the Navy wants to fix a ship it is asking to decommission

  17-05-2022 19:12 via breakingdefense.com
  
  LCS-19 will be the third ship to receive the combining gear fix, but is also on the shortlist to be decommissioned.
  
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• Russians fire S-300 at Israeli jets in Syria; could impact tactics, geopolitics

  17-05-2022 18:35 via breakingdefense.com
  
  “If this is a onetime incident, that is one thing,” said the senior defense source. “If this is a change in Russian policy, the Israeli government will have to decide: when a Russian battery launches, will Israeli attack it?”
  
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• Air Force finally gets a successful launch of hypersonic ARRW missile

  17-05-2022 15:45 via breakingdefense.com
  
  With a successful launch finally under its belt, the major looming question is whether (and when) the Air Force will approve production of the AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon.
  
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• Another US Hypersonic Missile Hits Mach 5 in Test, Air Force Says

  17-05-2022 04:17 via defenseone.com
  
  Three different U.S. weapons have now demonstrated successful hypersonic flight.
  
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• Sweden and Finland’s NATO Membership Coming ‘As Soon as Possible,’ Deputy Secretary General Says

  17-05-2022 01:51 via defenseone.com
  
  NATO leaders also are expected to bolster the alliance’s eastern flank with new plans at next month’s Madrid summit.
  
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• Biden Orders US Troops Back to Somalia, Reverses Trump Withdrawal

  16-05-2022 21:48 via defenseone.com
  
  “This is a step that rationalizes what was essentially an irrational arrangement that we inherited,” a senior administration official said.
  
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• Amid Ukraine crisis, Lockheed-Raytheon partnership gets $309M for Javelins

  16-05-2022 21:01 via breakingdefense.com
  
  The US has provided more than 5,500 Javelin shoulder-mounted anti-armor systems to Ukraine since the beginning of the Biden administration.
  
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• Two finalists emerge for next Space Force chief: Sources

  16-05-2022 20:09 via breakingdefense.com
  
  Sources tell Breaking Defense that two names — Lt. Gen. Stephen Whiting and Lt. Gen. John Shaw — have been sent to the White House for potential nomination as the new Space Force chief.
  
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• Russian Sub Fired Missiles at Lviv Training Center, Ukraine Says

  16-05-2022 19:24 via defenseone.com
  
  The use of such weapons could indicate munitions shortages, expert says.
  
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• SOCOM receives first Spike NLOS system integrated on a JLTV

  16-05-2022 18:26 via breakingdefense.com
  
  The launch platform can be integrated onto vehicles smaller than JLTVs, Lockheed officials said, but didn’t get into details.
  
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• Sweden applying for NATO membership; other Nordic nations pledge security support

  16-05-2022 16:36 via breakingdefense.com
  
  It is the Swedish “Government’s assessment is that NATO membership is the best way to protect Sweden’s security in light of the fundamentally changed security environment following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”
  
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• Finland and Sweden eye Israeli defense systems: Sources

  16-05-2022 16:23 via breakingdefense.com
  
  The new talks come after a spate of other deals were already made public.
  
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• Ending Production of This Warship Is a Mistake

  16-05-2022 16:20 via defenseone.com
  
  The Navy’s new shipbuilding plan would replace all but three more LPD-17s with a vague plan to get started on a replacement class.
  
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• The Air Force we need now can’t be sacrificed for the force we need in the future

  16-05-2022 15:15 via breakingdefense.com
  
  “Shortchanging what you can deliver today for a dream sheet regarding the future is a dangerous course given the current fragility of the existing force and scope of demand,” writes Doug Birkey.
  
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• US Army Is Battle-Testing Cloud Computing

  16-05-2022 04:00 via defenseone.com
  
  Various commands are trying out the service's cArmy infrastructure for common operating pictures, training, and more.
  
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• Stop Making a Big Deal of NATO’s Next Members

  14-05-2022 22:26 via defenseone.com
  
  Moscow wants to pretend that admitting Sweden and Finland would represent a far larger military change than it actually is.
  
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• Marine leaders acknowledge stockpile concerns; support CH-53K block buy

  13-05-2022 20:28 via breakingdefense.com
  
  A top Marine Corps officer said the service has provided about 1,000 Javelins and 1,000 Stinger missiles to Ukraine so far.
  
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• New Nunn-McCurdy cost breach in Navy’s latest LCS misstep

  13-05-2022 20:12 via breakingdefense.com
  
  The cost breach is one in a series of public missteps the Navy has had in recent years with the Littoral Combat Ships and the associated mission packages.
  
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• Question of Space National Guard heats up following legislation, hearings

  13-05-2022 19:29 via breakingdefense.com
  
  Not establishing a Space National Guard was “a mistake when Space Force was created,” said Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., in announcing a proposed bill to “remedy that.”
  
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• Pentagon’s tech chief promises stronger budget, support for DIU

  13-05-2022 18:43 via breakingdefense.com
  
  “Understanding the acquisition process and having exposure to the commercial world can help to do a faster pull, rather than just being extremely frustrated by the bureaucracy internally,” Heidi Shyu said.
  
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• Norway’s chief of defense: Finland, Sweden in NATO ‘opens up a lot of possibilities’

  13-05-2022 16:56 via breakingdefense.com
  
  “We have to review all of our plans, we have to look at the investments,” Gen. Eirik Kristoffersen, Norway’s chief of defense, told Breaking Defense in a May 12 interview, just hours after Finland made its NATO move official.
  
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• ‘Aggressive act’: Aussie defense minister knocks Chinese intel ship ‘hugging coastline’

  13-05-2022 15:49 via breakingdefense.com
  
  The PLAN ship passed within 17 miles of the Harold E Holt naval station base near the Western Australia town of Exmouth, which boasts a VLF transmission facility for communications with submarines.
  
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• Three questions about ending the war in Ukraine

  13-05-2022 15:19 via breakingdefense.com
  
  To avoid an Afghanistan situation of open-ended conflict, the US and its partners need to be thinking about how to end the conflict sooner rather than later, writes Robbin Laird.
  
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• Lawmakers worry Army doesn’t have basing agreements for long-range fires

  13-05-2022 13:28 via breakingdefense.com
  
  “I don’t think it would be wise for us to wait to develop the kinds of weapons systems, we need for a future conflict until we had the diplomatic agreements signed,” Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said.
  
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• After IG revelations, CO politicians push need for speed in basing SPACECOM HQ

  12-05-2022 20:59 via breakingdefense.com
  
  A draft version of a DoD inspector general report, obtained by Breaking Defense, said an Alabama HQ was justified, even after top military officials made a last-minute push for Colorado Springs.
  
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• Navy’s submarine builders ‘over cost’, ‘under performing’: Top admiral

  12-05-2022 20:00 via breakingdefense.com
  
  Gilday’s blunt remarks were in response to lawmaker questions about the submarine Boise’s years-long wait to dive again.
  
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• The Middle East’s Indifference to Ukraine Is a Warning

  12-05-2022 18:03 via defenseone.com
  
  What looks like international solidarity against a lawless invasion is something far more transactional and fragile.
  
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• Raytheon’s venture capital arm makes big bet on commercial hypersonic plane startup

  12-05-2022 17:30 via breakingdefense.com
  
  An investment into a startup like Hermeus that is looking at commercial hypersonic tech could lead to leap-ahead approaches that benefit defense applications.
  
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• Marine Littoral Regiment to refine concepts of employment in coming months

  12-05-2022 16:44 via breakingdefense.com
  
  The newly re-designated regiment plans to experiment with expeditionary advance base operations this year.
  
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• Raytheon Technologies Invests in Hypersonic Aircraft Startup Hermeus

  12-05-2022 16:00 via defenseone.com
  
  It’s the first investment by the aerospace and defense giant’s new venture arm.
  
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• Finland to apply for NATO membership; Sweden expected soon

  12-05-2022 15:54 via breakingdefense.com
  
  Finland’s political leaders called for joining NATO “without delay.”
  
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• Lawmakers Seek To Flex Dormant Foreign-Policy Muscle On Capitol Hill

  11-05-2022 23:27 via defenseone.com
  
  “Right now we have an unbroken streak of one,” a Senate aide told Defense One.
  
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• Training, Logistics Snafus Show How US Advisors Could Help Ukraine, Volunteers Say

  11-05-2022 23:08 via defenseone.com
  
  Time, effort, and materiel are being wasted for lack of a little expertise, say two U.S. volunteers recently returned from the war-torn country.
  
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• MDA looks to narrow competition for hypersonic missile killer

  11-05-2022 22:04 via breakingdefense.com
  
  The Missile Defense Agency’s request for funds above the 2023 budget for the Glide Phase Interceptor will go towards reducing risks for critical technologies, including seekers, propulsion systems and thermal protection, says Director Vice Adm. Jon Hill.
  
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• Does the West Want Ukraine to Win or Not?

  11-05-2022 21:40 via defenseone.com
  
  The relative trickle of advanced weapons to Kyiv suggests Western leaders would be fine with a stalemate.
  
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• Navy’s SIOP dry dock costs grew 400 percent, at risk of years-long delays

  11-05-2022 21:36 via breakingdefense.com
  
  Lawmakers have bemoaned cost overruns at SIOP, but never specified how bad it was.
  
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• Navy Leaders Defend Plan To Cut the Fleet Amid GOP Criticism

  11-05-2022 20:45 via defenseone.com
  
  “We think at this point we’re throwing good money after bad,” Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday told the House Armed Services Committee.
  
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• Decommissioned ship funds would go towards buying missiles, Navy says

  11-05-2022 20:45 via breakingdefense.com
  
  Not decommissioning ships means “we’re going to pay for that in terms of people, we’re going to pay for it with less ammunition and magazines, fewer spare parts and storerooms,” Gilday said.
  
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• The danger of FVL incorporating too much IP and hindering spiral improvements

  11-05-2022 19:59 via breakingdefense.com
  
  If the Army heeds industry’s emphasis on protecting intellectual property than a dependence on proprietary technology will hamstring FVL’s ability to address evolving threats.
  
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• Every Army/Marine Corps vehicle can have Assured PNT today with this bridging capability

  11-05-2022 19:58 via breakingdefense.com
  
  [Sponsored] Leonardo DRS’ AC²ES Assured Position, Navigation, and Timing solution for MFoCS-equipped tactical vehicles creates a bridging and interim capability to fill a gap.
  
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