Coproduction in Ukraine too hard? Here’s a solution: Build in NATO
In this op-ed, Kateryna Bondar argues coproduction in NATO countries could help Ukraine receive the defense materiel it needs while providing benefits to the host countries.
‘Generational change’: New Aussie export regime to deliver $600M in benefits, DepSecDef claims
"The reforms will deliver, in our judgment...a net decrease in regulatory compliance costs, and actually expand the amount of research that can occur internationally without a permit," Hugh Jeffrey, Australia's deputy secretary of strategy, policy, and industry, said today.
AI For Five Eyes? New bill pushes AI collaboration with UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand
“If we want to fight as a system... you have to start sharing technology now,” the former head of the Pentagon’s Joint AI Center told Breaking Defense. “We can’t build the system on the eve of battle.”
Proposed Australian export law meant to help AUKUS sharing, but experts are sounding alarms
The proposed legislation "expands Australia’s backyard to include the US and the UK, but it raises the fence," Chennupati Jagadish, Australian Academy of Science’s president, said.
With ITAR reform, ‘culture change’ will be key to AUKUS, says Australia’s Chief Defense Scientist
“I've had up close and personal experience where [US] leaders responsible for certain areas of technology have given direction that [Australia] is to be brought in because we have something to offer,” said Tanya Monro, “and yet, it still gets strangled.”
Aussie thinktank calls for sweeping ITAR changes for AUKUS
"As quiet work begins on Pillar I, and as traditional sources of resistance return to the driver’s seat of alliance defence industrial and technology cooperation, there is a distinct risk that any progress towards setting the optimal legal and regulatory conditions for AUKUS, particularly Pillar II, to function as intended will falter," the United States Studies Centre report says.
For AIA, ‘America First’ Means First In Capabilities & Sales
PARIS AIR SHOW: As much as I tried to give David Melcher slack to say the powerful Aerospace Industries Association he leads was finding it more difficult to do business under the chaotic and oft-bewildering Trump administration, he kept saying things were pretty well in hand. “The first year of an administration is certainly more […]