Updating strategy: NATO's new strategic concept calls for reprioritisation of CBRN threats
08 September 2022
by John Eldridge
NATO-Russia relations since 1999. (Janes)
NATO's strategy since the collapse of the Soviet Union was noted for its drift and lack of purpose. Comments by French President Emmanuel Macron in November 2019 that NATO was “brain-dead” highlighted this concern at the top of the alliance member states' leadership.
While the alliance expanded over twenty years to encompass former states that had been within the Soviet Union, NATO struggled to define a role for itself that not only involved protecting its members, but which could also at the same time improve relations with the Russian Federation.
US DoD report urges more safeguards for small tech firms
03 February 2023
by Marc Selinger
An aerial view of the Pentagon, the headquarters building for the US Department of Defense. (Getty Images)
The US Department of Defense (DoD) should increase its efforts to help small businesses protect their technology from foreign adversaries, according to the Pentagon's new “Small Business Strategy”.
Raytheon Technologies to merge two defence businesses
25 January 2023
by Marc Selinger
Raytheon Technologies' products include the sea-launched Tomahawk cruise missile. (NAVAIR)
Raytheon Technologies (RTX) plans to streamline its organisation by combining its two defence-focused business units into one, the US-based company announced on 24 January.
Raytheon Intelligence & Space (RIS) and Raytheon Missiles & Defense (RMD) will become a single business called Raytheon. Aircraft parts maker Collins Aerospace and aircraft engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney will remain individual businesses within RTX.
US lawmakers want details on civilian ISR, space-based combat capabilities
18 January 2023
by Carlo Munoz
L3Harris Technologies completed the first flight of the US Army Airborne Reconnaissance and Electronic Warfare System (ARES) aircraft – that will help modernise and enhance the army's ISR capabilities – on 27 August 2021 in Melbourne, Florida. (L3Harris)
US congressional lawmakers are calling upon the US Army and the Pentagon to provide details on how they plan to close mission gaps in high-altitude intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities, as well as develop a new artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled battlefield sensor management system.
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