Global for Thursday, March 7, 2024

• Fincantieri in talks to buy Leonardo’s torpedo business, source says
• Marines select companies to build cannon version of new recon vehicle
• US Army needs more industry input before pivot to ‘radio as a service’
• Brunei defense budget surges by 32%, with focus on intel, targeting
• Pentagon abandons effort to scale down amphibious ship design
• UK space chief flags moon mining as next conflict ‘gray zone’
• Space Development Agency aims to test Link 16 over US this year
• US Army to stand up cross-functional team for deep sensing
• Poland provides security guarantees to Lithuania amid Russia tensions
• Army to fund Black Hawk upgrades using budget from canceled helicopter
• US Army’s air defense modernization boss on missiles, machine learning
• A nearly $1 trillion defense budget faces headwinds at home and abroad
• French defense ministry picks startups to develop quantum computers