by Editorial Staff | Jun 29, 2015 | Daily Rapid Fire
Americas * With Naval Air Station Lemoore set to become the backbone of the Navy’s future strike capability, the Navy awarded a contract Friday for the construction of infrastructure to support the base’s fleet of F-35Cs. The $20.2 million task order...
by Editorial Staff | Jun 26, 2015 | Daily Rapid Fire
Americas * Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work has announced his intention to stand-up a joint intelligence-military operations center for satellites, allowing all intelligence and military satellites to be controlled from a single location. Work is likely hoping that...
by Editorial Staff | Jun 25, 2015 | Daily Rapid Fire
Americas * Modernizing the US’s nuclear arsenal, including delivery systems, would remain affordable despite a thirty-year price tag of around $1 trillion, according to the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. The cost of the improvements would peak...
by Editorial Staff | Jun 24, 2015 | Daily Rapid Fire
Americas * The Army has successfully conducted Manned Unmanned Teaming (MUM-T) involving an AH-64 Apache and a MQ-1C Gray Eagle UAV. The Gray Eagle was used to designate a target for the Apache, with the latter then firing a Hellfire missile using data from the UAV....
by Editorial Staff | Jun 23, 2015 | Daily Rapid Fire
Europe * The British Ministry of Defence is looking to develop a replacement for the problematic Bowman radio system. The MoD has invited academics and industry to suggest new solutions to land and littoral communications, with the project known as Morpheus. The hope...
