Australia is mulling which high-tech areas it will pursue alone or which may fall under AUKUS, as it ensures all its efforts focus on top warfighter needs. Arms manufacturers are tuning their lineups to the immediate experience of the brutal, close-range fighting in Ukraine. The purchase follows Paramount’s delivery of equipment to Mozambique, where the Mwari is already operational. Lockheed declined to offer details on the potential purchase, including the name of the company and the timeline of the deal. The Pentagon envisions the Microelectronics Commons as a national network of academic institutions, small business firms and research entities. The Department of Defense received three bids for the Common Hardware Systems 6th Generation contract, records show. Grant Shapps made his first appearance this week at the Ramstein forum of military donor nations to Ukraine. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said a Leopard 2 upgrade push underway among some user nations amounts to an industry initiative. Congress' dysfunction is taking its toll on national security as a government shutdown looms and hundreds of officers can't take their posts. “We are laser-focused on rooting out the procurement networks fueling the Russian war machine,” said Matthew Axelrod, an export enforcement official. Load More
