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Ashley Roque joins our team to cover the critical land warfare beat. Breaking Defense also sees return of Sydney Freedberg in new role.

Eighty years after first trying to use drones aboard its aircraft carriers, the US Navy is making big plans to add unmanned aircraft to its flattops.

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SpaceX had a shot at becoming a satellite builder for the Pentagon -- but then Northrop showed up.

A Lockheed official confirmed the company will compete in a Norwegian military radar competition.

During a tour of both its Syracuse campus and a satellite site in Cazenovia, NY, the company showed the production lines for several military radar programs, including the Army’s Q-53 counterfire target acquisition radar and the Air Force’s new long-range radar.

On short notice, the Army sent an armored brigade combat team to Germany using this prepositioned equipment. This meant soldiers could fly out on short notice and fall in on their equipment without having to wait for it to arrive by boat. Within a week of getting orders, soldiers were driving tanks on test ranges, the Army chief of staff General James McConville said recently.

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