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Smaller unmanned vessels will act as expendable scouts and decoys, larger ones -- over 50 meters -- will carry masses of missiles, while manned ships will carry both the largest systems and the human beings essential for rapid adaptation in combat.

'From an industry perspective, calling us, engaging us, talking to us, and synchronizing that alignment can be most helpful. It can also be, frankly, harmful if the appropriators or the authorizers get some stray voltage that doesn't match up to the story.'

WASHINGTON: The Navy is looking to get out of the missile defense business, the service's top admiral said today, and the Pentagon's new missile defense review might give the service the off-ramp it has been looking for to stop sailing in circles waiting for ground-based missile launches. ...

UPDATED: Trump Announces Government Reopens For 3 Weeks WASHINGTON: The Pentagon won't be able to release its fiscal year 2020 budget on Feb. 4 as previously planned because it has been caught up in the melee caused down by the 35-day government shutdown. ...

PENTAGON The Navy is refitting its decades-old China Lake weapons testing and research site in the Mojave Desert to begin hosting hypersonic weapons testing from a variety of platforms, including undersea launchers. ...

Building physical things is not SAIC's, well, thing. But physically building stuff has become less important and less profitable than integrating all the complex high-tech components and making sure they work together.

Just back from a unsuccessful round of discussions with her Russian counterparts in Geneva to discuss the Cold war-era accord, Undersecretary of State Andrea Thompson told reporters today she's not hopeful of saving the INF Treaty before Feb. 2, ...

PENTAGON: Military and civilian leaders at the Pentagon are portraying the new Missile Defense Review as a common-sense response to aggressive Chinese and Russian investments in new hypersonic weapons and faster, longer-range missiles. ...

The Marines want Vertical Launch System missile tubes on their new amphibious ships -- but the Navy isn't planning to leave room for them.

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