Defense Watch: Long Range Fires; Shipyard Support; ABMS Boost

摘要

Long Range Fires. Army Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, told lawmakers on May 27 each of the services will have a role in providing long range fires in the future, with individual roles to be refined as DoD continues to work through its Joint Warfighting Concept. Milley’s comment was in response to a question during a budget hearing from Rep. Steve Womack (R-Ark.) on recent “inter-service squabbles” regarding development of new long range fires capabilities. “I see it as a manifestation of how threatened the services feel in a constrained budget [environment]. But long-range fires are crucial to any conflict, particularly with what we’re looking at now with near-peer adversaries,” Womack said. Milley responded that it will be important for all of the services to have some form of long range fires capability to present adversaries with “multiple problems to solve simultaneously,” adding that “Each of them bring a unique and distinct capability to integrate into the Joint Warfighting Concept of the future.”