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The Army is looking for a launched effect capability that can potentially travel up to 1,000 km, with a demo planned later this year.

The US ally will add $53B AUD in defense spending from earlier projections over the coming decade

The service’s new Objective Force plan calls for demonstrating on-orbit refueling and fielding operational “space tugs” by 2030.

“Defense hawks want defense money in the reconciliation bill. I’m trying to keep it as small and focused as possible,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, who chairs the Senate Budget Committee.

The two companies signed an MoU to see if “closer industrial cooperation can help implement projects more efficiently, quickly, and cost-effectively,” according to Spain’s Navantia.

The Army has spent years evolving itself for a China fight and now needs Congress to back the systems it requires for a fight in the Pacific.

In the past year, the Army has divested nearly 60 percent of its Apache D models, Col. Tim Jaeger, director of Army aviation at the G3/5/7, said.

“The joint force, through operations and activities in other areas of responsibility, like the Pacific area of responsibility, under the command of Adm. [Samuel] Paparo, will actively pursue any Iranian flagged vessel or any vessel attempting to provide material support to Iran,” said Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine.

Awards will be issued “fairly shortly” for the first operational satellites that can track aircraft and from space, according to Air Force Secretary Troy Meink. 

“If boost-phase intercept from space is not affordable and scalable, we will not produce it, because we have other options to get after it,” said Space Force Gen. Michael Guetlein.