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Breaking Defense: The essential source for military, political, & industry leaders seeking in-depth coverage of global defense strategy & technology.
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Joined January 2011
Day 1 at the 2025 AUSA exposition [PHOTOS]
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Industry hopes to catch the eye of Army acquisition officials with an array of artillery, drones, trucks and more as AUSA 2025 gets underway.
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Army eyes larger all-source intelligence support to EW
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As the Army improves its EW acumen, it needs more intelligence sources to support operations.
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Army planning ’26 demo with ‘ultra long-range’ launched effect contenders
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“Imagine a scenario where you can bring a jet into an operational area, but you can't get close enough to the threat … and then you send something in that can go even further, and now you have some...
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Lockheed live-fires new vertical-launch JAGM for naval counter-drone role
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The Joint Air-to-Ground Missile quad launcher could help the defense giant break into the counter-drone market, particularly for naval uses.
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Modular sensors, AI-driven response, and swarm defeat technologies are redefining how militaries confront one of today’s fastest-evolving threats: low-cost, high-impact drones. Learn more: https://t.co/PrkMCnKLA5 Presented by Honeywell Aerospace Technologies
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Modular sensors, AI-driven response, and swarm defeat technologies are redefining how militaries confront one of today’s fastest-evolving threats: low-cost, high-impact drones.
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PEO Aviation ‘can’t speak’ to long-term future of UH-60Ms, focusing on upgrades, maintenance
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The service has previously said that the next buy of the UH-60Ms will be its last, but Brig. Gen. David Phillips said he foresees the fleet operating in the Army through the 2040s and 50s.
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Headed to #AUSA2025 this week? Say hi to the Breaking Defense staff on site: Land Warfare Reporter @carley_welch_, Editor in Chief @AaronMehta, Pentagon Reporter @ashroque13, Senior Networks and Information Warfare Reporter @MarkAPomerleau and more.
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Shutdown will delay Air Force drone wingman’s first flight, Anduril executive says
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“I can’t fund the government,” said Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey.
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Sikorsky’s new S70 UHawk is a Black Hawk, but without the pilot
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The S70 UHawk removes the pilot from an old Black Hawk UH-60L to turn the helicopter into a large drone. Flight tests could begin next year.
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AV launches new Switchblade variants, VTOL drone design
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The defense firm rolled out a new Switchblade design dubbed the Switchblade 400, as well as an update to its VAPOR vertical takeoff and landing drone.
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In an age defined by rapid technological evolution and operational complexity, @GenAtomics_ASI's Modernized Gray Eagle® ER & Gray Eagle® STOL remain the gold standard. https://t.co/Vvq3vJ0HKr
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In an age defined by rapid technological evolution and operational complexity, GA-ASI’s Modernized Gray Eagle® ER and Gray Eagle® STOL remain the gold standard.
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Driscoll vows Silicon Valley model is the future for the Army
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At AUSA 2025, Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll took aim at traditional primes, saying the future Army will “break down barriers until we measure acquisitions not in years and billions, but months and...
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PDW unveils multi-mission payloads for C100 drones
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The multi-mission payloads will allow the drones to operate in denied environments.
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‘I have got this s— figured out’: Anduril unveiling EagleEye mixed-reality device at AUSA
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“I now have all my toys back…. All of it is on the table for EagleEye,” said Anduril founder Palmer Luckey.
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What's @carley_welch_ watching at the Army's largest annual meeting this week? Drones, and things that kill drones. Here's what's ahead at #AUSA2025. Underwritten by Honeywell Aerospace Technologies.
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Breaking Defense's Aaron Mehta and Carley Welch preview what could be a very unique AUSA this year.
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Pentagon preparing to pull $8 billion from ‘unobligated’ R&D coffers to pay troops
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The unusual move comes nearly two weeks into the government shutdown.
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Things are heating up between the US Coast Guard and China in the frigid waters off Alaska. Naval Warfare Reporter Justin Katz has more on US efforts to "name and shame" Chinese research vessels. Catch the full episode of The Weekly Break Out: https://t.co/cGwGgv2lsq
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A statement from The New York Times on the Pentagon’s press pass policy:
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How is the Army scaling up Next Generation Command and Control for soldiers? Senior Networks and Information Warfare Reporter @MarkAPomerleau went to Fort Carson in Colorado to find out. Catch the full episode of The Weekly Break Out. https://t.co/VO1jrYDiSo
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