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Despite tightening budgets, the Army’s pushing ahead with its plan to replace the Reagan-era UH-60 Black Hawk with a high-speed Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA). It’ll pick between Bell’s V-280 and the Sikorsky-Boeing Defiant-X next year, with the winner entering service in 2030.
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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on April 12, 2021 at 11:56 AM
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Theresa Hitchens on April 12, 2021 at 4:13 PM
Deborah Lee James
WASHINGTON: The US should push hard to overhaul the entire international legal framework for outer space including replacing the foundational 1967 Outer Space Treaty (OST), a new report from the Atlantic Council says.
As it moves to do so, the US also should more aggressively court allies with an eye to establishing a “collective security alliance for space” among likeminded countries to “deter aggression” and defend “key resources and access.”
“The 1967 Treaty is dated. It was written, literally, in a different era,” said former Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James in an Atlantic Council briefing today. “At present it is too broad, and in some cases it’s probably overly specific.”
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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on April 12, 2021 at 5:35 PM
Obama Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel (left) swears in Christine Wormuth for her previous high-profile Pentagon job in 2014.
UPDATED with Hill, AUSA endorsements WASHINGTON: The Biden Administration has tapped a veteran bureaucratic infighter to be the first female Secretary of the Army. Christine Wormuth not only headed Biden’s own defense transition team, taking over from DepSecDef nominee Kathleen Hicks. She’s been in and out of the Pentagon since 1996, with stints at the National Security Council and as director of International Security & Defense Policy at RAND, the influential thinktank. That gives her extensive first-hand experience in how the policy sausage gets made – and deep personal knowledge of the players at the Biden Pentagon.
Rep. Anthony Brown, a 30-year Army veteran and member of the House Armed Services Committee, said in a statement that “Wormuth has the experience and knowledge necessary to lead the United States Army through the complex and multifaceted challenges we face today.
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Paul McLeary on April 12, 2021 at 7:59 PM