Kris Osborn
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New Coast Guard ship expands homeland defense
The Coast Guard’s now-under-construction and rapidly emerging Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) ship will hit the ocean next year, bringing new strategic and tactical dimensions to homeland defense, multi-service data sharing and many pressing maritime security issues of relevance to the U.S. Navy and the Pentagon. → Read More
Pentagon pursues information 'kill web' at massive speeds
Information itself, when it comes to networking an attacking force to expedite sensor-to-shooter time and quicken the “kill web,” is increasingly viewed as a defining weapon of war. → Read More
6th-gen stealth fighter likely to include lasers, AI and drone control
A stealthy, supersonic, semi-autonomous sixth-generation fighter maneuvers undetected through heavily armed enemy air space, evades radar detection to jam the adversary’s command and control systems with EW (Electronic Warfare) weapons, gather, analyze and transmit targeting data across huge areas of terrain in milliseconds using AI-empowered computing. → Read More
Pentagon Joint Chiefs cites 500-ship Navy fleet as 'aim point'
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley is directly, and without hesitation, saying that a much larger 500-ship U.S. Navy will be necessary to contain Chinese expansionist ambitions. → Read More
Future Navy drone boats will get advanced weapons and radar
A large, armed, surface-patrolling, submarine-hunting unmanned vessel, operating in a distributed capacity teamed with manned combatants and ops centers, launches a small fleet of autonomous drone boats well forward in the fight to counterattack newly discovered enemy missile launch facilities at previously undetectable ranges … made possible by a new generation of highly-sensitive,… → Read More
Navy Arms First New Flight III Destroyer With Next-Gen Weapons
Laser weapons, electronic warfare, long-range precision-strike weapons, and over-the-horizon missile attacks are but merely a few of the expanded maritime warfare mission sets planned for the U.S → Read More
Air Force Accelerates F-35 As War-Attack ‘Sensor Node’
The Air Force is making new adjustments to its F-35 priorities in order to expedite the service’s broader transition into new levels of networked warfare wherein combat nodes operate a → Read More
Army Future Combat Systems – A 'Friendly Ghost' That Lives On
(Washington D.C.) The Army’s Future Combat Systems was considered a complete failure, deemed not survivable enough, too lost in changing requirements and too dependent upon immature yet-to-be-pr → Read More
Pentagon seeks to defend a new generation of cyberattacks
U.S. weapons systems can no longer rely purely upon cybersecurity methods to stop hackers from taking over control systems, jamming information flow, derailing precision guidance systems or simply stealing sensitive data. → Read More
Pentagon builds new sensing weapons for space war
A 6th-Generation stealth fighter has already taken flight, a new class of ICBMs will soon fly through space, hundreds of new Low Earth Orbit satellites are shooting up beyond the earth’s atmosphere and emerging hypersonic weapons are moving from design to production in record time … all because of fast-moving digital engineering innovations. → Read More
Pentagon Battle Force 2045 Seeks 80 Attack Submarines
(Washington, D.C.) They can destroy major land targets from as far as nine hundred miles away, hit moving enemy ships at sea, attack submarines and surface vessels with torpedoes and increasingly, the → Read More
New Sensors to Track Enemy RPGs & Anti-Tank Missiles
(Washington, D.C.) What if a small recon unit of Army soldiers was advancing through hostile terrain on a high-risk scouting mission to find points of entry for a major follow-on armored ground assaul → Read More
The 1980s-era Abrams tank lives on with new weapons
It may have the same basic external configuration, weight and 120mm cannon, but today’s Abrams tank is, simply put, far more lethal than ever before due to the addition of sensors, ammunition, armor, EW (Electronic Warfare) and new weapons. → Read More
Army improves Abrams tank gun system with upgraded fire control
The Army has been upgrading and augmenting the attack system for its Abrams tank to ensure a clearer view for gunners looking to find, engage and destroy targets. → Read More
FCC proposal could allow Chinese satellite interference, official warns
The Federal Communications Commission is proposing to remove 45 of the 75 megahertz set aside for the U.S. government’s Safety Bands to unlicensed Wi-Fi which, according to a senior U.S. government official, “will compromise military readiness.” → Read More
Could Army's AI Identify Russian & Chinese Tanks?
(Washington D.C.) What happens if Russia or China builds a new secret tank or heavy armored vehicle that even the most advanced U.S. databases are not able to recognize? What if a weapon attacks U.S. → Read More
Army & Air Force Sign Deal to Combine War Tactics
The Army and the Air Force are planning a series of upcoming joint-service talks for the specific purpose of charting a collaborative, mutually beneficial attack network to better connect air and grou → Read More
F-35 sends targets to ground soldiers and army soldiers send targets up to F-35s
An advancing infantry unit breaks through a thick wall of enemy fighters when suddenly, while under heavy fire, soldiers on the ground receive incoming targeting data from an overhead F-35 showing that their unit will soon encounter a massive, mechanized force of enemy armored vehicles. → Read More
New high-speed Army satellites accelerate attacks on enemy tanks
When an Air Force fighter jet or bomber closes in on a high-value target area, poised for attack, or an Army ground unit moves to contact with an enemy, success or failure of a given high-risk mission can often hang in the balance of what can be described in two words – satellite networking. → Read More
Army network shortens sensor-to-shooter 'kill web' to 20 seconds
The Army’s Project Convergence 2020 sought to bring new, explosive “warfare at speed” dimensions to future combat as part of a broad transformational attempt to surge in front of competitors and near-peer rivals with accelerated networking and sensor-to-shooter times … designed to enable an entirely new generation of warfare possibilities. → Read More