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By   Theresa Hitchens on March 31, 2021 at 6:37 PM A KC-46 refuels an F-35 WASHINGTON: Tankers and cargo aircraft could in future carry their own counter-air missiles — or even launch missile-carrying drones — to help them survive ever-more sophisticated enemy air defenses, Air Mobility Command head Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost says. “We have hardpoints on the C-17; we have hardpoints on the KC-46. It’s not a hard stretch to think that we could put one or two missiles on there for self defense,” she told the Mitchell Institute today. Van Ovost is keen on pushing creative ideas, incl...

Ministry of Defence commits £6.6bn to development of new technologies such as hypersonic missiles and laser weapons 17 March 2021 • 10:00pm Boris Johnson has committed £6.6 billion for novel military research The development of new technologies such as hypersonic missiles and laser weapons is to be given a boost from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) with extra money, the Government has announced.    The MoD will invest a significant amount of the extra money it won from the Treasury last year in “higher-risk research”. Adversaries such as Russia have invested in new air weapons progra...

Utah Business Utah’s technology sector continues to make waves, with five metro areas topping the Milken Institute’s tech-focused Best-Performing Cities index. Utah’s software, consumer tech, and health tech sectors are turning heads and attracting huge amounts of money and prestige.  To see where Utah’s next big tech boom will come from, you need to look up— way up. After quietly building momentum for decades, Utah’s aerospace industry is primed for a prolonged heyday, fueled by an “innovation imperative” across the civil, defense, and space sectors. Utah is home to establis...

Chaos, cash and COVID-19: How the defense industry survived — and thrived — during the pandemic By: Aaron Mehta and Valerie Insinna March 15 Photo credit: Sgt. Wesley Timm/U.S. Marine Corps Photo credit: Sgt. Wesley Timm/U.S. Marine Corps WASHINGTON — U.S. Air Force leaders faced a dilemma. The service needed a key raw material from Italy for one of its critical nuclear modernization programs. But in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, as industrial facilities shut down and transit between nations slowed, it was unclear how the material could reach the United States. A...

Quick Hits Will Roper, the former Air Force acquisition chief, has joined the board of directors of Volansi, a company focused on autonomous, vertical take-off and landing middle-mile drone delivery services and holds a spot on the USAF's Skyborg program, and also joined the board of advisers at augmented reality firm Red 6. *** According to a recent Government Accountability Officereport, federal agencies continue to pursue data center consolidation goals without a clear, consistent metric for server utilization, a key data point for measuring accomplishments. Separately, the report notes...