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A look at some of what this year’s SOF Week conference in Tampa had to offer.
By Michael MarrowModernizing our supply chain is a national security imperative
Closing supply chain gaps in innovating technology will reposition the industrial base to be a strategic source of value.
“Right now, you and I can go to a Cabela’s, we can buy a radio, we can go to a trade show, put it out on a table, and we can say it’s a form of resilient communication, because there’s no standard,” Samir Mehta said. “It’s time that we have a standard.”
By Aaron Mehta “To the extent we can get a good price for what we’ve identified as non-core [businesses], we’ll do it. But too many of the offers are coming in low and people think we’re desperate to sell, and I can assure you we’re not,” said L3Harris CEO Chris Kubasik.
By Michael Marrow
In addition, CEO Kathy Warden says the company sees a chance to sell up to five Triton UAVs to the NATO alliance.
By Michael Marrow
The Missile Defense Agency recently accelerated plans to pick a winning vendor, a decision previously planned for next year.
By Michael Marrow
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Successful implementation of the National Defense Industrial Strategy may very well be the deciding factor in our future as a global military power.
By Christopher E. “Chris” Kubasik - Chair and CEO of L3Harris Technologies
Two international customers so far have signed on to buy Northrop’s Integrated Viper Electronic Warfare Suite, and the company hopes more could be in the works.
By Michael Marrow
Millennium Space Systems is delivering on critical missile tracking constellation
With programs like MTC, Millennium Space Systems is redefining what it means to be an operational prime – rapidly delivering operational small sat constellations on rapid timelines.
“[P]roduct development has been slower than anticipated, and the projected date to decommission SPADOC continues to extend further to late FY24, a delay of more than two years from the original timeline,” according to the 2023 Annual Report of the Pentagon’s Director of Operational Test & Evaluation.
By Theresa Hitchens The sale could help L3Harris pay down debt and focus as a defense supplier.
By Michael Marrow
The new Viper Shield electronic warfare suite, meant to help foreign F-16 customers fend off modern EW threats, will be ready for production in late 2025, L3Harris told Breaking Defense in Dubai.
By Michael Marrow
“Big software developments fail,” said Air Force space acquisition czar Frank Calvelli. “You have to go to smaller systems.”
By Theresa Hitchens The new partnership aims to stand up a “multi-user rocket motor facility” in Australia that can meet needs for munitions and space launch.
By Michael Marrow
“It feels a little like the uncertainty around COVID, but no companies are pulling out,” Eric Fanning, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Aerospace Industries Association, told Breaking Defense.
By Michael Marrow
“This is a broad and in a way campaign-like approach to strengthening our own supply chain and enabling multiple sources, really for even beyond our company for our industry, which I think is important,” Lockheed Martin CEO Jim Taiclet said of his firm’s endeavor to field a new solid rocket motor supplier.
By Michael Marrow
