The Army has sent lawmakers a $2.2 billion unfunded priority list for FY25, while US Central Command says it would happily funnel an additional $450 million towards regional security.
By Ashley Roque and Valerie InsinnaInsights on digital transformation following successes on B-21 and Sentinel
Customers and employees are experiencing the ‘Butterfly Effect’ of digital transformation from key national security programs.
“Is it 100 percent ready? Is it going to work perfectly? Probably not but we’re going to learn from it,” Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. James Mingus told Breaking Defense.
By Ashley Roque
“We’re actually getting [soldiers] involved in how we’re helping to design the force….My view is that we are going to see a lot of refinements from the field that will really help us figure out how we need to adjust,” said Army Chief Randy George.
By Ashley Roque
In 2021, Israel shifted from being tied to EUCOM to CENTCOM. That’s proving important during the Gaza conflict, analysts say.
By Ashley Roque and Seth J. Frantzman
“Our objective during this live fire exercise was to shoot down UAS from dawn to dusk,” Col. Robert McVey told Breaking Defense.
By Jaspreet Gill
The move comes after F-22s were also sent to CENTCOM’s area of responsibility as a check on “unsafe” Russian activity in the air over Syria.
By Ashley Roque and Michael Marrow
Future inevitability of quantum computers is a security problem today
‘Store Now, Decrypt Later’ attacks must be thwarted now with Zero Trust cybersecurity.
A new report from the International Institute for Strategic Studies raises the possibility of a troubling blind spot that regional allies might struggle to fix.
By Agnes Helou
The Middle East is proving to be a test-bed for military innovation that could be incredibly helpful for other priority regions such as the Indo-Pacific, write Jasmin Alsaied and Bilal Saab of the Middle East Institute.
By Jasmin Alsaied and Bilal Y. Saab
“We can’t wait 12 to 18 months to do a big, expensive exercise; We need to do that at the right point in time,” said AFC Commander Gen. James Rainey.
By Ashley Roque
The Afghanistan withdrawal and the consolidation of all in-country military networks to one base at Hamid Karzai International Airport illustrated unique challenges with direct applicability to Joint All Domain Command and Control and future Project Convergences.
By Barry Rosenberg
“This coordination has become an everyday requirement as things happen all the time,” said Ret. Maj. Gen. Amos Gilead.
By Arie Egozi
WASHINGTON: After two decades, thousands of dead and millions of lives impacted, the US has ended its formal combat mission in Afghanistan. The last C-17 exited Hamid Karzai International Airport at 3:29 PM eastern time – just before the calendar flipped to Aug 31 Kabul time, the deadline for America’s withdrawal. Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, the…
By Aaron Mehta
As the US spends its final hours in Afghanistan, Mark Cancian of CSIS notes that more contractors have died (8,000) than US service members (7,000) in post 9/11 operations.
By Mark Cancian
A recent CENTCOM exercise featured real-time software development, rolling out updates in hours or days, writes CENTCOM Chief Technology Officer Schuyler Moore.
By Schuyler Moore