Lee Ferran

"We've been doing export for 15, 20 years, but it's just been in recent years that we've really been reaching out to create global defense industrial base, creating global partnerships, partnerships in local countries," Hanwha Global Defense President & CEO Michael Coulter told Breaking Defense.

Calidus occupies a large event space in an outdoor pavilion, where it's showing off several armored vehicles, one of which featured an "ALHEDA" mounted missile pod.

Michael Casey, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, warned about the vulnerability of mobile devices.

The US national security establishment is cautiously embracing generative AI, so Breaking Defense decided to do an experiment.

The MDA described the event as a "pivotal step" towards a larger, more holistic Guam Defense System designed to take on multiple threats at once — a "persistent layered integrated air and missile defense capability."

Rep. Jim Himes said the 2027 warnings are the "kind of thing that hawks in the House say and I'm supposed to be really scared by that, rather than by saying, 'Okay, well how do we take the steps to make that eventuality less likely?'"

Officials and experts have held up AI as a potential key aid in defeating drone swarms, though ethical concerns linger.

Amphib readiness has been a topic of much discussion, as service leaders, lawmakers and the executive branch have scuffled over just how many of the ships the Marine Corps really needs, and how relevant they are to modern combat operations.

Chief of Defence of the Netherlands Gen. Onno Eichelsheim told Breaking Defense that F-16s are already in play and that Ukraine doesn't have the pilots to man new, complex systems.

Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse also said that North Korean troops in Russia may be among the best Pyongyang has to offer but probably aren't suited for the job they could be called to do.