Global Defense Market
12/8/2023
Innovation company BMNT Inc. on Dec. 5 announced the creation of the AUKUS Defense Investor Network, which is dedicated to accelerating the development of advanced military capabilities for the trilat…
Land Forces
12/8/2023
LONDON — The DSEI trade show in London has a smorgasbord of panel discussions and keynote speakers spread out in the exhibition halls on six separate stages. Sometimes it’s hard to choose …
Shipbuilding
12/7/2023
CHARLESTON, South Carolina – The Navy’s current and future success in the ever-changing modern battlefield relies heavily on maintaining a technical advantage and leveraging industry partn…
Global Defense Market
12/7/2023
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the North Atlantic Treaty Organization prepares for its 75th anniversary summit in Washington this July, strategic challenges spread across Ukraine and the Indo-Pacific are…
Emerging Technologies
12/7/2023
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Veteran-owned tech company Ventus Respiratory Technologies has created a lightweight respirator that can serve as an alternative to gas masks. Arjun Grewal, the company’…
Shipbuilding
12/6/2023
CHARLESTON, South Carolina — The U.S. Navy and the defense industry’s current shipbuilding pace is cause for major concern, and together, the two must improve the entire shipbuilding …
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
12/6/2023
ARLINGTON, Virginia — California-based company Saildrone announced its Voyager robotic boat has become the first commercial uncrewed surface vehicle to meet light warship standards of the Americ…
Defense Department
12/5/2023
A primary tenet of U.S. defense strategy is to overwhelm an opponent’s numerical advantage with technological superiority. The Small Business Innovation Research and Technology Transfer programs…
Human Systems
12/5/2023
LONDON — Conflicts are not constrained to military forces fighting each other. Civilian populations interact with the battlefield as well, and human behavior is a complex variable. U.K.-based co…
Space
12/4/2023
At 7:28 pm Pacific Time on Sept. 14, a Firefly Aerospace Alpha launch vehicle bearing a Millennium Space Systems-built satellite lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. While this was…
Army News
12/1/2023
The Army established the 11th Airborne Division in June 2022 at Fort Wainwright and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska to fight at high altitudes and in extreme cold weather. How cold? How abou…
Budget
12/1/2023
If the Defense Department and industry deliver on modernization plans, a plethora of new aircraft, tanks, ships and other weapons currently under development will enter service at the end of this deca…
Training and Simulation
11/30/2023
ORLANDO – A U.S.-Czech startup introduced a new mixed reality headset that the company says will sharply reduce latency issues. Vrgineers’ XTAL 3 Ceiling and Visibility Unlimited, or CAVU…
Business Trends
11/30/2023
The Government Accountability Office published a report Oct. 17 titled, “Defense Industrial Base: DoD Needs Better Insight into Risks from Mergers and Acquisitions.” The report details th…
Training and Simulation
11/30/2023
I often mention that while the impact of the work all of us do at the National Defense Industrial Association and its affiliates can live forever, the lives of the terrific people we are privileged to…
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
11/30/2023
ORLANDO — When discussing generative artificial intelligence and language models such as ChatGPT, talking points often focus on the elimination of jobs and privacy concerns, but experts sug…
Training and Simulation
11/30/2023
ORLANDO — Arizona-based simulation company VirTra introduced an extended reality training headset that uses volumetric video technology to capture realistic 3D characters within training simulat…
Navy News
11/29/2023
ORLANDO – Employing live, virtual and constructive training is absolutely crucial to the future of the U.S. Navy, particularly for preparing sailors for a potential conflict, a service commande…
Global Defense Market
11/29/2023
ORLANDO — Ukraine has been forced to train 100,000 new warfighters all while engaging in a fight for its life with Russia. The U.S. military and its allies and partners have taken note of …
Battlefield Communications
11/29/2023
ORLANDO — Harnessing 5G wireless communications could lead to more immersive training simulations, but to make the most of increased bandwidth, the Defense Department needs to rethink how it use…
Space
11/29/2023
ORLANDO — As a relatively new service, the U.S. Space Force has a unique path to forge when grappling with how the evolving world of training and simulations will help it achieve its missions, a…
Marine Corps News
11/28/2023
ORLANDO – The Marine Corps is training its service members to create software that it can use to boost efficiency, lethality and enable Force Design 2030 modernization goals. Thomas Johnson, se…
Training and Simulation
11/28/2023
ORLANDO — The Army is looking to deliver in February some of the building blocks for its signature training and simulation system with the goal of declaring initial operating capability by …
Training and Simulation
11/28/2023
ORLANDO — The world has shifted from the industrial age to the age of information, and sustaining a global force now requires training that is not only increasingly realistic and dynamic, but mo…
