Warplanes Lead Navy & Marine Wish Lists
A couple more F-35s and 14 more Super Hornets are on the Navy’s unfunded priority list.
Navy to Deploy New Fighter-Launched Weapon
The AMG-154 Joint Standoff weapon uses GPS and imaging infrared seeker to find and attack targets.
DoD Inviting Hackers to Attack, Locate Holes
Possible financial reward to hackers for breaking into the DoD and telling the Pentagon how they did it.
Norwegian Test Pilot Praises JSF
A pilot’s report on JSF testing prowess counters earlier reports that reached the presidential campaign and drew Donald Trump’s first military position, against the JSF.
FAA Looking at European Rules for Micro-UAVs
US Rules for Micro-UAVs are based on weight, the FAA is considering more of a risk-based approach to the classification.
Navy Swapping Out Mine Hunting Drones for Aerial Refueling
The Navy scraps a mine-hunting drone program and picks up a UAS robot tanker program
Cyber-Security Start-ups Funding Dwindling
Cyber security start-ups facing a funding drought, failing to gain traction.
China Has Militarized the So. China Sea
China has militarized the So China Sea, “You’d have to believe in a flat earth to believe otherwise,” says PACOM ADM head Harry Harris.
Top HASC Democrat Calls for Larger DoD Budget
Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) joins GOP hawks calling to increase the administration’s $609 billion defense budget request in the face of increased threats from Russia and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
Gene Splicing Listed as WMD Threat
James Clapper, US director of national intelligence, includes gene editing as a weapon of mass destruction threat in the annual worldwide threat assessment report.
