DefenceTalkDefenceTalkThe Defense Department has been working to improve issues that affect the ready-for-issue rate for F-35 joint strike fighter parts, the undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment told Congress. Parts for the F-35 should be accompanied by an “electronic equipment log” through the jet’s Autonomic Logistics Information System, but that doesn’t always happen, Ellen […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-defense-dept-improves-ready-for-issue-rate-for-f-35-parts-75986/

DefenceTalkDefenceTalkArmy Gen. Paul M. Nakasone, commander of the U.S. Cyber Command, said that within the last decade Russia, China, Iran and North Korea have exploited classified systems, disrupted communications, performed destructive attacks and had an influence on the 2016 U.S. elections. Speaking today during the Association of the United States Army’s Thought Leaders webinar, Nakasone […]https://www.defencetalk.com/cybersecurity-for-2020-elections-a-top-dod-priority-general-says-75934/

DefenceTalkMicroelectronics are in nearly everything, including the complex weapons systems the Defense Department buys, such as the F-35 joint strike fighter, the Pentagon’s director of defense research and engineering for modernization said. “It is so ubiquitous and because it is … so fundamental to everything we do,” Mark J. Lewis said via video conference today […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-defense-adopts-zero-trust-approach-to-buying-microelectronics-75572/

DefenceTalkDefense Department officials are in full agreement with President Donald J. Trump’s warning to the Iranian regime on Twitter, senior Pentagon officials said today. “The president issued an important warning to the Iranians,” Deputy Defense Secretary David L. Norquist said during a Pentagon news conference today. “What he was emphasizing is all of our ships […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-defense-officials-express-agreement-with-presidents-warning-to-iran-75235/

DefenceTalkUS Defense Secretary Mark Esper ordered a 60-day freeze Wednesday on moves by US troops and civilian defense employees overseas in an effort to halt the spread of the coronavirus. The move stopped the deployment or redeployment of some 90,000 US service members for the next two months. It also freezes in place the families […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-freezes-overseas-troop-movements-in-virus-lockdown-74963/

DefenceTalkThe Pentagon is assuming the coronavirus epidemic in the United States will last at least several months, and that some countries are at risk of “political chaos,” its top officials said Tuesday. “I think we need to plan for this to be a few months long at least,” US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said, judging […]https://www.defencetalk.com/pentagon-sees-coronavirus-crisis-lasting-several-months-74949/

DefenceTalkThe Department of Defense successfully tested a hypersonic glide body in a flight experiment conducted from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii, March 19 at approximately 10:30 p.m. local time (HST). The U.S. Navy and U.S. Army jointly executed the launch of a common hypersonic glide body (C-HGB), which flew at hypersonic speed to […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-dept-of-defense-tests-hypersonic-glide-body-74913/

DefenceTalkDefending the homeland and deployed forces, allies and partners from missile threats of any type is the military’s top priority. The Defense Department continues to invest in technologies that accomplish this, particularly in the space-based sensor-tracking of advanced cruise missiles and hypersonic threats, said Rob Soofer, deputy assistant secretary of defense for nuclear and missile […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-dod-officials-describe-missile-defense-efforts-74819/

DefenceTalkThe US military said Monday they are planning to deploy a miniature nuclear generator that can be carried in a freight truck and could power a remote base indefinitely. The US Defense Department awarded three contracts for the engineering design of the mobile reactors, targeting a one to five megawatt capacity. The project, dubbed Pele, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-military-plans-portable-mini-nuclear-power-plants-74745/

DefenceTalkUS Defense Department has issued instructions to the armed services and department heads on how to respond to the implications of the growing coronavirus outbreak. The department issued memos responding to the need for operations to continue during the outbreak. The DOD documents build on messages from the Office of Personnel Management issued Saturday. Signed […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-defense-issues-flexible-instructions-on-response-to-coronavirus-74732/