The new brigade represents a consolidation of Israeli forces in the north, which an IDF official told Breaking Defense made sense as operating across the whole mountainous area requires specialized gear, vehicles and training.
Discussing Israel’s protections for civilians in its bombing campaign of Gaza, Air Force Lt. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich said that after observing an Israeli strike cell in late 2023, Jerusalem’s forces were “making a bona fide effort to adhere to the law of armed conflict.”
The companies received contracts for one of three areas — autonomous navigation, machine learning and autonomy, or software system integrators.
“It is not a Washington Monument ploy. It is a necessary moment that we… need to push through to actually get strategic outcomes,” said Russell Rumbaugh.
[Sponsored] In this Q&A with Northrop Grumman’s Lisa Brown, vice president and program director for Next Generation Interceptor (NGI), we discuss the differences between NGI and the existing Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system, recent milestones and near-term roadmap for NGI, and the digital engineering aspects driving the program.
