The company also announced a "factories-as-a-service" offering "primarily where the program itself is a real manufacturing challenge to scale up, [or] where there’s super scarce workforce needs,” said Hadrian founder and CEO Chris Power.
Commander Adam Stein, the Future Ships and Digital Transformation branch head for the Navy's Surface Warfare directorate, wants new entrants to help him out. Here's the best way for them to do that.
Consolidate network monitoring, performance management, and fault isolation into a single, comprehensive solution.
"We recognize this is a time of heightened risk,” Pentagon cyber official Katie Arrington told Breaking Defense. “DoD encourages the DIB [Defense Industry Base] to raise their cybersecurity posture.”
The new study of 2024 data also warns that the Pentagon remains over-reliant on a small number of traditional prime contractors and a supplier base rife with potential bottlenecks.
Australia is transforming its defense industrial base, focusing on submarine and missile production to solidify its role in US and UK defense supply chains under AUKUS.
To keep our homeland safe, we need a new approach to missile defense.
Blending superior optics, advanced stabilization and AI-powered autonomy in a compact and rugged system, ASELFLIR 600 delivers unmatched intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities.
The Pentagon has made real progress in reaching beyond its historical contractors to “maturing defense startups,” the Ronald Reagan Institute said, but much work is needed.
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In an unpredictable world, a strong and innovative military is essential to protect the United States and its economic interests.
Instead of stockpiling small numbers of ultra-high-performance weapons, the DoD should design missiles that can be mass produced on demand and adapt to enemy countermeasures, write Hudson Institute scholars Bryan Clark and Dan Patt.
Michigan’s defense ecosystem and expertise makes it a special asset for production.
“If you are a supplier, and your lead time is too long, and you refuse to work with us” on 3D printing alternative spare parts, said Rear Adm. Jon Rucker, “we're going to figure it out. Not a threat – a fact of life.”
“Our aim is not merely to maintain America's edge, but to sharpen it and lay the foundation for continued U.S. leadership in critical technologies and capabilities that will define the battlespace of the future,” Pentagon acquisition executive Bill LaPlante wrote in a foreword to the new National Defense Industrial Strategy Implementation Plan.
Three years after the fall of Kabul, the US Navy is helping to fund several training programs recruiting Afghan immigrants to work for the nation's ailing shipbuilding industry.
The US is still great at designing chips but has offshored the ability to build prototypes, which slows innovation and risks IP theft, said OSD’s Dev Shenoy.