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 by James Laporta Washington (UPI) Mar 16, 2018
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Army for training simulators and live-fire ranges. The deal, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $3.5 billion under the terms of a firm-fixed-contract. The agreement enables Lockheed Martin to provide the Army with "training aids, devices, simulators and simulations, maintenance, sustainment, operations and support of instrumentation systems and live-fire ranges," the Pentagon said. The Defense Department said work locations and funding will be determined with each order. The contract between the U.S. Army and Lockheed Martin will remain valid until April 2025.
Making gray-zone activity more black and white Washington DC (SPX) Mar 16, 2018 An emergent type of conflict in recent years has been coined "gray zone," because it sits in a nebulous area between peace and conventional warfare. Gray-zone action is not openly declared or defined, it's slower, and is prosecuted more subtly-using social, psychological, religious, information, cyber and other means to achieve physical or cognitive objectives with or without violence. The lack of clarity of intent-the grayness-makes it challenging to detect, characterize, and counter an enemy fighting ... read more
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