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Daily report | Aerospace Force Magazine

By Hudson Brooklyn
Daily report | Aerospace Force Magazine

The US is sending air defense systems and troops to Israel

POLITICALLY

The US is stationing an advanced missile defense system in Israel and dozens of soldiers to operate it. President Joe Biden ordered the Pentagon to send the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System – known as THAAD – to Israel in the coming days to help Israel deter potential Iranian missile attacks and expand the Israeli government’s already robust missile defense infrastructure.

OPINION: How the US Air Force can take back the skies

The Wall Street Journal

“The U.S. military is engaged in a dogfight for control of the skies. For decades after World War II, America took its air superiority for granted. We can’t do it anymore. Our primary adversaries have invested heavily in modern fighter aircraft, advanced surface-to-air missiles, and other new countermeasure technologies. Every new system weakens our competitive advantage,” wrote Sens. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.).

China is deploying a record 125 fighter jets to Taiwan as part of a large-scale military warning exercise

The Associated Press

China deployed a record 125 aircraft, as well as its Liaoning aircraft carrier and ships, in large-scale military exercises around Taiwan and its offshore islands on Oct. 14, simulating the closure of key ports, underscoring the tense situation in China, officials said of Taiwan is affected.

Analysis through the flood of data

Aerospace Force Magazine

From an F-35 fighter jet to an antenna that connects to a satellite, the Department of the Air Force ingests massive amounts of data every minute — but making sense of all that information requires new technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning to cut through the noise and present key points to warfighters so they can take action.

The Expanding Battlefield: The Army’s Push into Space Warfare

SpaceNews

As the boundaries of warfare continue to expand beyond the traditional battlefield, the U.S. Army is also moving into space. With satellite capabilities now critical to military operations, the Army is launching initiatives to strengthen its space warfare expertise and develop technologies to counter adversaries’ orbital assets. While the move is not intended to compete with Space Force, it underscores what officials describe as increasing synergy between ground and orbital operations.

L3Harris and Embraer are no longer working together to offer C-390 to the US

Break defense

A partnership between American defense contractor L3Harris and Brazil’s Embraer to bring its C-390 Millenium to the U.S. market has failed, the CEO of Embraer’s defense business told Breaking Defense. “I think it’s fair to say that the L3 partnership for the agile tanker no longer exists,” Bosco da Costa Jr. said in an interview. “They decided not to continue [it] because of other priorities.”

France and Germany join the US space warfare plan “Olympic Defender”.

Break defense

On October 11, U.S. Space Command welcomed France and Germany as the newest participants in Operation Olympic Defender, the U.S. military’s operational planning process for space warfare. SPACECOM Commander General Stephen Whiting traveled to Paris on October 14 and Berlin on October 11 to participate in the two induction ceremonies with Maj. Gen. Phillipe Adam, commander of the French Space Command, and Lt. Gen. Gunter Schneider, director general of Military Strategy respectively. Operations in the Federal Ministry of Defense.

Boeing will cut 10% of its workforce as the defense unit loses $2 billion in three months

Defense One

Boeing’s defense business continued to slump in the third quarter of 2024 as troubled programs, fixed-price contracts and an inability to reach an agreement with thousands of striking machinists dragged the company down. On October 11, the aerospace giant announced that it would cut 10 percent of its total workforce, or about 17,000, to “position itself” for the future.

The Department of Defense is publishing the final rule for CMMC, setting the stage for implementation next year

DefenseScoop

The Pentagon has released the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification 2.0 (CMMC 2.0) final rule, reinforcing the department’s plans to adopt new cybersecurity standards for contractors by mid-2025. The rule was released for public review in the Federal Register on Oct. 11, and the Defense Department expects to officially release the new guidelines on Oct. 15, according to a Pentagon news release.

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The BriteStorm payload allows CCAs to jam air defense systems

Aviation Week

As collaborative combat aircraft (CCA) are increasingly eyed for electronic warfare (EW) tasks, Leonardo has developed a lightweight, low-cost backup jamming capability that could help protect force packages.

PODCAST: China’s Military Buildup: Perception vs. Reality

The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies

In this episode of Aerospace Advantage, Heather “Lucky” Penney talks to China expert Mike Dahm about an important aspect of China’s military modernization: how we perceive such developments. Given the limited nature of the Chinese security complex as well as the different cultural and political factors between our nations, Westerners must often rely on guesswork and incomplete information to reach different conclusions regarding the scale, scope and vector of this buildup. This often leads individuals to reach false conclusions while ignoring crucial nuances that should inform how the United States and its allies build their respective military capabilities.

Russia is retaking land it seized from Ukraine this summer

The New York Times

Russia has recaptured some villages in its western border areas that Ukraine invaded in the summer, threatening Kiev’s hold on areas it sees as crucial leverage to pressure Moscow into negotiations to end the war.

Why Space Force chose commercial companies to build its new ground system

Defense News

The Space Force wants to transition the first of its space-domain reconnaissance satellite programs to a new cloud-based ground system as early as next spring — and instead of partnering with a traditional defense contractor, it has formed a consortium of small, commercial firms to help it modernize satellite operations.

Mysterious drones flooded a US military base for 17 days. The Pentagon is at a loss.

The Wall Street Journal

U.S. Air Force Gen. Mark Kelly wasn’t sure what to make of reports that a suspicious fleet of unidentified aircraft had flown over Langley Air Force Base on the Virginia coast. Kelly, a decorated base commander, climbed to the roof of a squadron to see for himself. He joined a handful of other officers responsible for a number of the country’s most advanced jet fighters, including F-22 Raptors.

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VIDEO: SpaceX catches giant Starship booster with ‘chopsticks’ during historic Flight 5 rocket launch and landing

Space.com

SpaceX launched its 400-foot (122-meter) spacecraft for the fifth time ever today (Oct. 13), sending the giant rocket into the air from its starbase in South Texas at 8:25 a.m. EDT (1225 GMT; 7:25 a.m. Texas time). The mission aimed to break new ground for Starship and space travel in general: SpaceX planned to return Starship’s giant first stage booster, known as Super Heavy, directly to its launch mount and connect it to the “chopstick” arms of the Starship the launch tower in a courageous and unprecedented maneuver. And that’s exactly what happened.

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