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• After NGAD loss, Lockheed says it will ‘supercharge’ F-35

  22-04-2025 23:40 via defenseone.com
  
  In the wake of its loss in the Next Generation Air Dominance competition, Lockheed Martin plans to take the technology from its bid and funnel it into its F-35 program to pitch a lower-cost alternative to the future F-47.“The knowledge and technology development gained from our investments in the NGAD competition strengthened our conviction to enhance the F-35 to a fifth-generation-plus capability. And I challenged the team to deliver 80% of sixth-gen capability at 50% of the cost,”
  
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• Northrop takes $477M loss on B-21 to speed up production, cover materials costs

  22-04-2025 20:36 via defenseone.com
  
  Northrop Grumman is taking a $477 million hit on its B-21 Raider program to fund changes that will allow it to build the new stealth bomber faster than the Pentagon has so far requested.The pre-tax charge, tied to the first five low-rate initial production lots, adds to the $1.56 billion loss the company reported in January on the program. The fresh loss covers expenses tied to  a “process change” intended to boost production rates and an increase in the projected cost and
  
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• Read the State Department's new org chart

  22-04-2025 19:00 via defenseone.com
  The State Department has moved its Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy to the agency’s Economic Growth office, according to an org chart released as part of a reorganization announced Tuesday.The three-year-old CDP has spearheaded dozens of overseas engagements intended to bring U.S. diplomacy into the digital age, helped to call out China's hacking of American critical infrastructure, and, as recently as this month, work
  
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• State to slash 15% of domestic staff, eliminate 132 offices

  22-04-2025 18:28 via defenseone.com
  
  The State Department will eliminate 15 percent of its domestic staff as part of a reorganization that will close one-sixth of its 734 offices and bureaus, officials said Tuesday.Of the remaining 602 offices and bureaus, 137 are to be moved within the department. Affected employees will receive reduction-in-force notices by July 1.State Secretary Marco Rubio announced the reorganization to staff Tuesday, as employees had anticipated.Rubio said the offices to be eliminated are not m
  
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• The D Brief: More DOD turmoil; US warns on Chinese sats; Nordics’ emerging power; Army’s new radar; And a bit more.

  22-04-2025 17:05 via defenseone.com
  
  President Trump’s White House is asking around for someone who could replace Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth, NPR’s Tom Bowman reported Monday, citing a U.S. official. However, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt disagreed, and called the report “FAKE NEWS based on one anonymous source who clearly has no idea what they are talking about.”“He's doing a great job,” Trump said Monday of his defense secretary. “Ask the Houthis how he's doing,” ref
  
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• I went to the Naval Academy to defend freedom, not to dismantle it

  22-04-2025 12:00 via defenseone.com
  
  I didn’t join the Navy to fight for a country that bans books. I joined to defend one that never would.I went to the U.S. Naval Academy because I believed in the values laid out in its mission: to develop midshipmen morally, mentally and physically. I graduated proud to swear an oath to support and defend the freedoms enshrined in our Constitution. I believed that a nation leading the post–World War II global order had a responsibility to stand for liberty, not retreat from it. That&
  
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