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Budget
Emerging Technology Horizons: A Little Applause for the 2022 Budget Request
The fiscal year 2022 budget request and congressional appropriations process is easy to criticize — its late submission, late completion and the negative impacts of these dates on the Defense Department and industry warrant some of these critiques.
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Infotech
Viewpoint: JADC2 Should Embrace Hardened 5G, Edge Computing
Joint all-domain command and control, or JADC2, is the military’s latest buzzy acronym and one of the stated priorities for the Defense Department. Yet it is a concept without a clear solution and is likely to languish without the infrastructure to ensure its success.
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Army News
JUST IN: Sikorsky Leveraging Army Engine Delay to Improve FARA Prototype
PALM BEACH, Florida — The delay of the new engine for the Army’s next reconnaissance helicopter won’t impact Sikorsky’s design process for the prototype it is offering, company executives said.
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Marine Corps News
BREAKING: Marine Corps Issues New ‘Information’ Doctrine
Information has always been a warfare domain — whether it involves the sharing of tactical plans among units, gathering and processing intelligence or...
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Special Operations
Special Ops Tech Pulled in Different Directions
TAMPA, Florida — With a pivot to the Indo-Pacific, its fingers still on the pulse of the Middle East, and the potential for expanding conflict in Eastern Europe, Special Operations Command has its hands full.
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Defense Department
Energetics Workforce Is Graying Out
WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana — Whether it is cyber, microelectronics or another technology field, one of the most pressing concerns among government and industry is developing the future workforce. Nowhere is that challenge greater than in the field of energetic materials — the chemicals used to make propellants, pyrotechnics and explosives.
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Energy
Energetics: Community Warns of China’s Edge Developing Explosive Materials
WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana — Should a conflict break out tomorrow in the South China Sea over Taiwan, the U.S. military could be at a tactical disadvantage, experts said, because of China’s advances in the use of energetic materials — the chemicals used as propellants, pyrotechnics and explosives.
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GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING INSIGHTS
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National Defense Podcasts
MAY 2022
SOCOM's Little Bird, the Navy's New Torpedo, and Polar Security Cutters
In this episode, National Defense discusses the future of the Little Bird helicopter, the Navy’s new torpedo program, and the delivery date of the Coast Guard’s new and improved icebreakers. Sponsored by BAE Systems.