Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
This Friday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on unmanned systems, the Marine Corps operating under a continuing resolution and more.
Textron's RIPSAW M3 robotic combat vehicle is made to keep soldiers out of danger and take on missions such as reconnaissance and surveillance across all sorts of terrain:
Textron teams up with Kodiak Robotics on self-driving system for RIPSAW M3
Textron Systems has added a self-driving system from Kodiak Robotics to its RIPSAW M3 robotic combat vehicle, the company announced last Tuesday.
The Marine Corps has approximately $1 billion in new program starts that it will be unable to begin under a continuing resolution, according to a service spokesman:
Marine Corps: Three-month CR 'manageable' but not ideal
Now that Congress has passed a three-month continuing resolution to fund the government through Dec. 20, the threat posed by the earlier six-month CR proposal is temporarily averted, yet defense officials still have a sense of urgency for Congress to pass a fiscal year 2025 budget.
Anduril and General Atomics were selected in April for continued funding to develop their CCA airframe designs, beating out industry bigwigs Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Boeing in the contest:
CCA prototypes take center stage as Air Force reveals new details about first increment
The Air Force Research Laboratory last week debuted two mock-ups of the first increment of Collaborative Combat Aircraft, built by Anduril Industries and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, providing a rare glimpse into how the service is narrowing its expectations for the autonomous platforms that will eventually accompany advanced fighters in battle.
The Air Force is inviting industry to develop command and control, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and battle management fielded systems:
Air Force bringing industry into C3BM/ABMS experiments
The Air Force is bringing industry into command, control, communications and battle management experiments to help current or potential contractors understand the warfighter's operational needs.
Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), a former CIA analyst and Pentagon official, introduced legislation in May that would give the Commerce Department the power to "limit or ban the introduction of [connected] vehicles from U.S. markets if they pose a threat to national security":
Congress pushing bills that would give Commerce and Defense departments power to quash threat electric vehicles pose
The Commerce Department proposed a rule Monday that would ban importing or selling certain electric cars in the United States with ties to the Chinese Communist Party and Russia.
Appearing in London alongside U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles and British Defense Secretary John Healey framed a prospective new, bilateral treaty as an extension of AUKUS that will focus specifically on the relationship between Australia and the U.K. as they develop the future SSN-AUKUS submarine:
Australia, U.K. to begin negotiating bilateral treaty for SSN-AUKUS development
Australia and the United Kingdom will soon begin negotiations to establish a new bilateral defense treaty to "bind our AUKUS collaborations into law," defense officials said today, while also announcing the addition of Sting Ray torpedoes to Australian, U.K. and United States P-8 aircraft fleets.