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20 Sept. 24. Rheinmetall and MBDA Deutschland have decided to continue their successful cooperation in the field of laser weapons.
The aim is to bring a joint maritime product to the market within the next five to six years, which opens up new possibilities, particularly in relation to drone defence on ships. Both companies are convinced that their complementary skills in the field of laser weapon technology will enable them to successfully develop a military laser weapon system. The companies have now concluded a corresponding cooperation agreement.
Most recently, a laser weapon demonstrator from Rheinmetall and MBDA Germany was integrated on the German Navy’s frigate 124 “Sachsen” from June 2022 to September 2023. During this on-board trial, the demonstrator performed impressively in more than 100 test shots.
17 Sept 24. Hitting the mark: DASA builds dynamic partnerships to spearhead cooperative missile development. How DASA teamed up with defence primes, Government and industry innovators to develop novel missiles that can talk to each other
Smarter, cooperative missile technology holds huge potential for defence, offering an enhanced capability beyond that of single missiles. Cooperative missiles are designed to communicate with one another, share situational awareness, and coordinate their actions to work together within operator-set constraints to achieve a common objective during an engagement.
The ability to improve missile flexibility and responsiveness, allowing them to react to emerging threats and adapt to changing situations, is a challenge that the defence sector is determined to solve.
To address this, the Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) launched the themed competition “It’s good for missiles to talk,” in 2022, on behalf of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl). Funding was provided by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and forms part of the Cooperative Missile Project. This initial phase funded 10 innovations aimed at providing valuable insights into how cooperative missiles could work.
Building on the success of Phase 1, DASA took the competition to the next level the following year launching Phase 2 in 2023, which focused on building dynamic partnerships with defence Primes, government customers, and industry. This new phase also aimed to deepen the MODs understanding of cooperative missile technology and explore its practical applications, and exploitation routes, pushing the boundaries of missile capabilities.
Collaborate to innovate: bringing UK primes on board
On the outset of the competition, DASA aimed to foster collaboration among all stakeholders, ensuring the best outcomes. Securing buy-in from major UK Defence Primes, Thales and MBDA, was crucial to this goal. Their missile technology expertise would not only aid in the development of the competition document but would also provide help to MOD technical assessors in evaluating innovations, ensuring feasibility and exploitability. This marked the first ever DASA competition with direct support from UK defence primes, highlighting the importance of industry partnership in advancing national defence capabilities.
Another essential aspect of the collaborative approach to the competition was the establishment of strong synergies between Dstl and Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S). In defence, it’s common for innovation organisations to work on similar technologies and research. Here, DASA aimed to pinpoint synergies within their respective scopes of work. This would help outline the competition requirements, set clear and measurable objectives, and disentangle interdependencies among challenge areas. The final outcome was a competition document that emphasised shared and achievable goals for all stakeholders.
During the course of the competition, DASA helped maintain these cross-functional relationships, pinpoint key individuals to harness collective wisdom, established goals responsibilities, and organised weekly team meetings to promote mutual support and ensure a unified approach in decision-making.
Outcomes: scanning the horizons for novel missile technologies
By securing willingness from Thales and MBDA to collaborate with the MOD Technical Partners, and establishing synergies between Dstl and DE&S, the competition produced six innovative funded technologies with a total investment of £1.4m. The collaboration with industry partners and government significantly improved the potential for outcomes, accelerating the exploitation process.
The funded technologies were from a mix of universities, large organisations and SMEs.
Bornea Dynamics
A technique to deploy neural networks and other advanced processing/communication algorithms.
Swansea University
An innovation for improving antenna capabilities, particularly in terms of bandwidth coverage and beam steering.
University of Birmingham
A solution for horizon path planning for a network of cooperative missiles.
Origami Labs UK Ltd.
A collaborative sensing technology to help provide an adaptive, dynamic planning capability for missiles.
University of Liverpool
Automated routing information for missiles in-flight that allows them to maximise use of terrain screening for survivability.
General Dynamics UK Ltd
A capability for missiles to propose new engagement plans while the missiles are in flight.
Proactively partnering with Defence customers to improve capability pull-through
Here is what several stakeholders had to say about It’s good for Missiles to Talk: Phase 2.
Dr Colm Kelly – Senior Hardware Solution Architect, Thales
Collaborating with other UK primes, government bodies and various competitors as part of It’s Good for Missiles to Talk: Phase 2 has yielded interesting conversations from fresh perspectives. Supporting DASA and MOD throughout the process of crafting the competition, down selection and then collaboration with the competitors gives me greater insight into the expectations that MOD have for not just the Thales portfolio of systems but beyond. Engaging with new people has stimulated plenty of what if, and why questions – it is also good for people to talk!
Ian Fairclough, Head of Critical Technologies, MBDA
As the UK MOD’s sovereign partner on complex weapons, MBDA’s involvement in the competition phase has allowed us to highlight technologies that could fill emerging gaps, and that will complement technologies being matured through other frameworks and MBDA’s own innovation programmes. It has introduced us to new suppliers looking for support to adapt their technologies into an unfamiliar domain. By working together as Industry Primes with the DASA, DSTL and DE&S teams, we have been able to share viewpoints that should guide more of these DASA projects towards developments that we can incorporate into the UK Complex Weapon Portfolio – a win-win.
Charlie Maslen, Chief Future Technologies, Dstl
The DASA community is a great forum to seek innovate solutions and we looked to them to address key challenges in the development of Cooperative Missiles. Involving the missile primes was important to us as it helps MOD ensure the successful exploitation of emerging technologies from supplier teams. DASA’s facilitation and organisation throughout the completion has been excellent.
Simon Zavad, Programme Manager – Future Kinetic Effects and Weapon Systems, Dstl
This competition was ground-breaking in its co-operation between DASA, Dstl, DE&S and strategic suppliers Thales and MBDA, who took part in the assessment of bids, providing a clear route to exploitation. For me this demonstrates best practice in breaking down organisational boundaries and delivering innovation through to capability on behalf of the MOD.
James Holder, Engineering Manager, DE&S
“Working as a joint Dstl and DE&S team on the It’s Good for Missiles to Talk Phase 2 competition has been hugely successful and has allowed us to collaborate with a number of small innovators who we wouldn’t have known about otherwise. The variety of proposals we received was really impressive and will help to support our respective technology development objectives, and the level of support we received from the DASA team throughout the process was fantastic.”
Learn more about the competition here: It’s Good for Missiles to Talk: Phase 2: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/competition-its-good-for-missiles-to-talk-phase-2
(Source: https://www.gov.uk/)
17 Sept 24. Elbit Systems UK (ESUK) has successfully completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) on the Dismounted Joint Fires Integrator (D-JFI) programme which will provide an Integrated Target Acquisition Solution for all branches of the British Armed Forces. The system enhances soldiers’ ability to find and identify targets and provides the crucial targeting information necessary to fire more quickly and accurately. It will be used by Joint Terminal Attack Controllers (JTACS) and Fire Support Teams (FST), and the completion of the CDR is an important step to getting the system in the hands of service personnel.
The D-JFI system allows users to identify targets with high accuracy and feed information to close air support, maritime or artillery assets, enabling them to engage the target directly. This state of the art ‘sensor to shooter’ system is possible through ESUK’s highly-skilled team of engineers who lead the integration of the technology.
For enhanced usability, D-JFI combines world class sensors with an intuitive application which incorporates imagery, situational awareness and intelligence data. The system uses both active and passive detection, allowing users to mask their signatures in combat. This means that using specialist software on a tablet, information gathered by the D-JFI is sent digitally to an artillery system or aircraft to instantly engage the target, while the soldier operating the system remains hidden.
Elbit Systems UK will now progress to System Acceptance Testing in the next few months, with deliveries due to the UK MOD in 2025. Following the delivery to front-line units, the JTAC solution is expected to be in operation in 2025 with the FST variant expected to enter service in 2026. This is a demonstration of the strong UK based supply chain and strengthens ESUK’s position in supporting the British Armed Forces digitisation efforts and modernisation.
D-JFI incorporates a number of Elbit Systems UK’s advanced technologies including the TORCH-X FIRES Targeting application, the AION-C multi-spectral electro-optic payload, the RATTLER XR and RATTLER H target designators, the Hattorix mounting system for fast and accurate target identification and location, and the Smart-Hub power and data distribution hub and tactical router for C4I dismounted systems components. The D-JFI system, which is fully integrated with the British Armed Forces tactical communications system and Ground to Air Networks, supports hundreds of jobs across the UK alongside other ESUK programmes. This includes five UK based subcontractors on the programme addressing the requirements for UK sovereignty and freedom of action.
Martin Fausset, CEO of ESUK said: “The D-JFI system is an innovative, state of the art solution that allows users to assess and designate targets for fire support using cutting-edge technology. In an increasingly complex landscape, the Elbit Systems UK D-JFI system will provide an operational advantage to the British Armed Forces and we will continue to work closely with them to field the system to front line units in the next year”.
17 Sept 24. US strategy for anti-ship weapons to counter China: plentiful, mobile, deadly.
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- US Air Force, in test, struck ship with QUICKSINK weapon
- Budget documents outline US plans for missile purchases
The United States is amassing an arsenal of abundant and easily made anti-ship weapons as part of American efforts to deter China in the Indo-Pacific region and gear up U.S. forces there.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has pushed U.S. thinking toward a new philosophy – “affordable mass,” as one missile industry CEO put it, speaking on condition of anonymity, referring to having plenty of relatively cheap weapons at the ready.
“It’s a natural counter to what China has been doing,” said Euan Graham, a senior analyst with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute think tank, referring to the Chinese arsenal of ships and conventional ballistic missiles including those designed to attack vessels.
The Pentagon and China’s Ministry of Defence did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The United States has ramped up testing of its QUICKSINK weapon, an inexpensive and potentially plentiful bomb equipped with a low-cost GPS guidance kit and a seeker that can track moving objects. The U.S. Air Force used a B-2 stealth bomber during a test last month in the Gulf of Mexico to strike a target ship with QUICKSINK.
China will still have a large advantage in sheer numbers of anti-ship missiles, according to experts, and can base them on its home territory. But increasing U.S. production of QUICKSINK would narrow that gap by putting China’s 370 or so warships at more risk during any future conflict than they have faced since before Beijing leaned into modernizing its military in the 1990s.
QUICKSINK, still in development, is made by Boeing (BA.N) with a seeker from BAE Systems (BAES.L). QUICKSINK can be used with the hundreds of thousands of Joint-Direct Attack Munition tail kits – systems that can be dropped from U.S. or allied warplanes and cheaply turn “dumb” 2,000-pound (900-kg) bombs into guided weapons.
The U.S. military’s Indo-Pacific Command wants thousands of the QUICKSINK weapons – and has for years – according to an industry executive, who declined to reveal the precise figure because it is classified.
With enough “affordable mass” weapons aimed at them, Chinese ship defences would be overwhelmed, according to this executive, speaking on condition of anonymity.
In such a scenario, the U.S. military would use Long Range Anti-Ship Missiles (LRASM) or SM-6 missiles to damage a Chinese warship and its radars, then bombard the vessel with lower-cost weapons such as QUICKSINK.
A VARIETY OF WEAPONS
The United States has been amassing a variety of anti-ship weapons in Asia. In April, the U.S. Army deployed its new Typhon mobile missile batteries, which were developed cheaply from existing components and can fire SM-6 and Tomahawk missiles against sea targets, to the Philippines during an exercise.
Such weapons are relatively easy to produce – drawing on large stockpiles and designs that have been around for a decade or more – and could help the United States and its allies catch up quickly in an Indo-Pacific missile race in which China has a big lead.
Although the U.S. military has declined to say how many will be deployed in the Indo-Pacific region, more than 800 SM-6 missiles are due to be bought in the next five years, according to government documents outlining military purchases. Several thousand Tomahawks and hundreds of thousands of JDAMs are already in U.S. inventories, the documents showed.
“China’s game is to restrict the movement of U.S. Navy assets in the Western Pacific and First Island Chain,” Graham said, referring to the closest major archipelagos from the coast of East Asia. “This is a sort of like-minded response to make life difficult for the PLAN.”
PLAN is short for the People’s Liberation Army Navy, China’s maritime service branch.
Placing anti-ship weapons in locations such as the Philippines would put them within reach of much of the South China Sea. China claims 90% of the South China Sea as its sovereign territory, but is opposed by five Southeast Asian states and Taiwan.
Collin Koh, a scholar at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore, said, “In a way it is like levelling the playing field.”
Koh cited the example of Iran-aligned Houthi forces using low-tech anti-ship weapons against civilian traffic in the Red Sea, which forced the United States and others to deploy costly weapons to defend against them.
“If you look at the case of the Red Sea, clearly the cost equation (of anti-ship missiles) doesn’t fall on the side of the defender,” Koh said. “Even if you have a smaller arsenal of such offensive missile systems, you can still project some deterrence.” (Source: Reuters)
17 Sept 24. Pentagon awards rocket motor maker Ursa Major $12.5m. U.S. rocket propulsion startup Ursa Major said on Tuesday it was awarded a $12.5m contract to build out production and testing for new solid fuel rocket engines. The award, though small, is part of a bigger effort by the Pentagon to increase the number of rocket makers as stockpiles dwindle from supplying Ukraine and Israel in their ongoing wars. The agreement contains some of the first funds distributed from the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital which are meant to seed investment in the defense industrial base’s supply chain. The Navy is also contributing to the $12.5m award that is being matched by Ursa Major, culminating in a $25m expansion of the company’s solid rocket motor capabilities.
The investment will support Ursa Major’s efforts to enhance its solid rocket motor manufacturing process under the Office of Strategic Capital’s Transition Acceleration Program, which aims to fund development of future defense products.
Separately, the Navy awarded a contract earlier this year to address surging demand for the M104 engine which is used in RTX Corp’s (RTX.N), Standard Missile family of missiles. WHAT’S NEXT
Ursa Major’s contribution to the investment will be directed toward completing an Advanced Manufacturing Pathfinder program, which includes the design, manufacture, and testing of a solid rocket motor prototype.
Tuesday’s award is significant because it is one of the first from the Office of Strategic Capital, a fund which was established to boost public-private investments in critical technology areas for national security. (Source: Reuters)
16 Sept 24. Australia launches sovereign rocket manufacturing call to arms. Industry. Minister for Defence Industry and Capability Delivery Pat Conroy has announced the government will make a series of investments totalling up to $80m to support the development of key subsystems as part of a sovereign Australian guided weapons manufacturing capability.
The first investment will see $22m invested as part of the government’s request for information from industry to establish a manufacturing complex that will enable the production of rocket motors for some of the world’s most advanced missiles in Australia, in support of the $21bn Guided Weapons and Explosive Ordnance (GWEO) Enterprise.
This initiative is underpinned by the Albanese government’s Future Made in Australia agenda, which will improve the resilience of supply chains, providing for greater strategic sovereignty, enhance export opportunities, while delivering broad economic and employment benefits, particularly in regional Australia.
Minister for Defence Industry and Capability Delivery, Pat Conroy welcomed this investment saying, “Today’s announcement represents a leap forward for the Australian defence industry and continues to deliver on the Albanese Government’s commitment to providing the ADF with the capabilities it needs to make Australians safer and safeguard our national interests.”
Rocket motors are a critical component of missiles and required for most guided weapons, including Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (GMLRS) missiles which, under the Albanese government, will be made in Australia from next year.
The government expects that the rocket motor complex will begin production by the end of the decade.
“This is another investment in a future made in Australia and the more than 100,000 Australians, including in regional Australia, that are benefiting from the Government’s commitment to grow our sovereign defence industry and sovereign industrial base,” Minister Conroy said.
In addition to this, the Albanese government is also investing up to $60 m over the next five years to develop the next generation of guided weapons subsystems and components, such as hypersonic and long-range strike. (Source: Defence Connect)
13 Sept 24. The ALAKRAN Mobile Mortar System has been recognised for innovative technologies at the MSPO 2024 ‘Defender Awards’ in Poland. One of the eagerly anticipated highlights of the International Defence Industry Exhibition is the ‘Defender Awards’, a Gala Ceremony culminating in prestigious awards and distinctions for special achievements in the defence industry.
This year, ALAKRAN was singled out for the ‘Territorial Defence Force Commander’s Award’, for its groundbreaking, innovative technologies. The finalists are selected by the MSPO Programme Council, which is chaired by the Secretary of State at the Ministry of National Defence, Paweł Bejda. The awards were presented by Deputy Prime Minister, head of the Ministry of Defence Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.
Milanion NTGS, the manufacturer of the ALAKRAN mobile mortar system exhibited the rapid response mortar system at MSPO 2024 in Poland with their local partner, AUTO PODLASIE, receiving positive attention from Polish and International delegations.
ALAKRAN is a versatile and resilient system, engineered with mission-critical capabilities to counter the key tactical challenges encountered on the high-intensity modern battlefield. The fully digital and automated mortar system is user-friendly and proven effective across a wide spectrum of operational environments including urban, desert, forest, mountainous, and snow. ALAKRAN is combat-proven and currently ‘in-service’ in several active war zones around the globe. It can easily be integrated onto almost any 4×4 vehicle with a minimum 2-ton payload. It outperforms competitors by utilising patented technological breakthroughs to deliver superior mobility, precision, accuracy, firepower, and crew safety.
13 Sept 24. India carries out test of updated indigenous surface-to-air missile. India’s latest test of the vertical launch short-range surface-to-air missile (VL-SRSAM) was conducted on 12 September 2024. The missile fired in this test features an updated seeker and proximity fuze. (PIB)
India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Indian Navy have carried out another test of the country’s vertical launch short-range surface-to-air missile (VL-SRSAM), which has since been updated with new systems.
The test was conducted on 12 September from the Integrated Test Range located in Chandipur, off the coast of Odisha, India’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) disclosed in a statement on the same day.
The flight test was carried out from a land-based vertical launcher and intercepted a high-speed aerial target flying at a low altitude, the statement said. An image accompanying the statement indicates that this was similar to the eight-cell launcher seen in previous tests of the weapon system.
The missile system successfully tracked and engaged the target, the statement added.
In a further explanation of what the test entailed, the MoD noted that it was carried out to validate several updated elements of the weapon system.
These include the missile’s proximity fuze and seeker. The performance of these new components was tracked with various instruments including telemetry systems and radar and electro-optic trackers, the MoD added.
The VL-SRSAM is estimated to have a length of about 3.8 m, while its estimated top speed is Mach 4 and its maximum range is believed to be between 40 and 50 km.
It is armed with a high-explosive pre-fragmented warhead and relies on an inertial navigation system (INS) for its mid-course before switching to a radio frequency-based seeker for the terminal phase of its flight. (Source: Janes)
13 Sept 24. Raytheon, NGC Successfully Test Solid Rocket Motor. Raytheon, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) have successfully completed a static fire test of an advanced long-range solid rocket motor at the Northrop Grumman Allegany Ballistics Laboratory in West Virginia.
The test demonstrated wired end-burning technology for hypersonic applications and provided data to support digital modeling and simulations that validated the design maturity and performance of the rocket motor. Raytheon’s Advanced Technology team and Northrop Grumman leveraged their combined digital engineering expertise to accelerate the design and development in a digital environment using model-based systems engineering.
“This is a major milestone in proving the significant capability of this solid rocket motor,” said Colin Whelan, president of Advanced Technology at Raytheon. “By leveraging industry collaboration, we were able to demonstrate that we can produce and meet requirements for challenging long-range fires kill chains.”
Raytheon and Northrop Grumman share a long history of collaborating on the development of hypersonic systems. Both are making investments in rocket motor testing to prove design stability and maturity that is necessary to deliver capability to servicemen and women on an accelerated schedule.
“This extremely important test of our wired end-burning technology provides extended range over conventional rocket motors,” said Frank DeMauro, vice president, Weapon Systems, Northrop Grumman. “We are excited to rapidly push the boundaries on next-generation propulsion technology and provide our customers with the ability to respond to evolving threats.” (Source: ASD Network)
13 Sep 24. L3Harris Rapidly Advances US Hypersonic Missile Tracking and Defense Capabilities.
- Program successes highlight L3Harris’ ability to quickly deliver missile warning and defense capabilities for the U.S. military.
Threats to our national security increase every day as the United States’ near-peer adversaries develop and field sophisticated weapons on accelerated timelines – including hypersonic missiles that are faster, more elusive and more dangerous than ever before.
U.S. Space Force Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Salzman described the current environment at the Mitchell Institute’s annual Spacepower Security Forum earlier in 2024. “We must protect our space capabilities while being able to deny an adversary the hostile use of its space capabilities,“ said Salzman. “It allows the joint force to effectively engage strategic rivals and does not compromise the safety, security, stability, and long-term sustainability of the domain.”
L3Harris, for our part, is rising to the challenge by delivering resilient, integrated, space-based missile warning, tracking and defense capabilities the U.S. needs to stay ahead of adversary threats.
“The adversary won’t wait, and neither can we,” said Rob Mitrevski, Vice President and General Manager, Spectral Solutions, L3Harris. “We’re honored to play a leading role in adding vital capabilities to the U.S. military’s multi-layered missile warning and defense architecture. Our solutions help give the warfighter every advantage to stay ahead of advanced threats like hypersonic missiles.”
Answering the call to defend against emerging threats
Over the past year, L3Harris has made significant progress in developing solutions that rapidly and affordably address the nation’s most critical missile warning, tracking and defense challenges. Successes include:
- Completing Critical Design Review and Production Readiness Review for SDA’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer program in December 2023. As part of the $800 m contract, we’re building a 16-vehicle constellation with advanced technology designed to identify and track hypersonic missiles.
- Receiving a $919 m contract from the SDA in January 2024 to build 18 space vehicles for the agency’s Tranche 2 Tracking Layer program, which will provide near-global missile warning and tracking coverage with preliminary missile defense. This builds on our work to date on prior SDA Tracking Layer tranches and other missile warning, tracking and defense solutions for the MDA and SSC.
- Designing, building and testing five missile-tracking satellites for the MDA’s Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS) program and the SDA’s Tranche 0 Tracking Layer program. The satellites successfully launched into orbit from Cape Canaveral, Fla., in February 2024.
- Completing Preliminary Design Review for the infrared (IR) sensor payload for the SSC’s Missile Track Custody (MTC) Epoch 1 satellite constellation in February 2024. These advanced missile detection and tracking capabilities will provide a resilient layer in medium Earth orbit. The project builds on L3Harris’ 60-plus years of expertise designing, building and testing mission-critical IR instruments in both geosynchronous orbit and low-Earth orbit.
Technology “building blocks” accelerate progress
“As the only prime working on Space Development Agency, Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Space Force programs, L3Harris uses a common technology approach with building blocks to save the U.S. government money and reduce risks,” said Mitrevski. “Our common core of capabilities is applied across the kill chain and in multiple orbits to address the needs of each customer. This prevents our customers from paying three times for three unique designs – increasing our offering maturity, cost efficiencies, and interoperability across the U.S. government architecture.”
Outpacing the threat with advanced innovation
- L3Harris will keep its foot on the accelerator in the months ahead. Projected Missile Warning and Defense milestones and deliverables include:
- Completing our first IR sensor unit, as well as a Ground Readiness Review and System Readiness Review, for the SDA’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer program.
- Completing System Requirements Review and System Design Review for the SDA’s Tranche 2 Tracking Layer program.
- Completing Critical Design Review on the IR sensor payload for the SSC’s MTC Epoch 1 satellite constellation.
To meet current and future customer needs, we’re also investing heavily in scaling operations, with a focus on physical, process and personnel. Plans include building a new 60,000-square-foot IR sensor production facility in Indiana, with capacity to support the assembly, integration and testing of sensors; as well as a 90,000-square-foot space vehicle integration facility in Florida that will double L3Harris’ capacity to integrate and test satellites.
Space superiority is fundamental to modern defense in the hypersonic age, and there’s never been a more urgent need to invest in and strengthen our nation’s space capabilities. L3Harris has stepped up to meet the U.S. government’s call for innovation and will continue our role as a trusted disruptor, delivering new capabilities that keep our warfighter – and nation – safe in the years ahead. (Source: ASD Network)
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