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Brig. Gen. Ed Barker said he’s outlined a 100-day plan as he takes over the Army's program executive office for intelligence, electronic warfare and sensors. ....
Col. Rich Kniseley, who will lead the newly created Commercial Space Office, told Breaking Defense, "At the end of the day, I want to be a customer in the commercial market." ....
UMEX 2022: Despite the United Arab Emirates withdrawing its letter of acceptance on a US weapons package that included 18 MQ-9B SkyGuardian unmanned aerial vehicles, General Atomics remains hopeful that a deal can still happen. The goal, a top company official said Wednesday, is to get the larger Foreign Military Sales (FMS) package broken up into individual offerings, which would split the GA drone sale from the F-35 joint strike fighter package the latter of which has emerged as a flashpoint as the US tries to get the UAE to abandon a 5G deal with China. “We are here to display the aircraft and keep the negotiations moving forward,’ David Alexander, GA’s president for aircraft systems, told Breaking Defense Wednesday at the Unmanned Systems Exhibition and Conference (UMEX) in Abu Dhabi. “We are at a stage of negotiations where we are going over the configurations that they (UAE) want, because this can be configured in so many styles to do various missions and so it comes wi ....