“One of China’s most salient advantages in the competition is its ability to identify and woo both public influencers and elites in [Pacific island] governments, whether via licit or illicit means,” MITRE analysts conclude.
By Colin ClarkEnterprise-wide training: the Army’s $3.5B program for multi-service combat readiness
The competition for Warfighter Training and Readiness Solutions will bring together training networks, combat training centers and live ranges across the DoD enterprise.
“High resolution (spatial and temporal) global weather data is more readily accessible from commercial platforms, and is increasingly important for making well-informed decisions in geographically diverse environments around the world,” the DIU-AFLCMC announcement states.
By Theresa Hitchens
The National Security Strategy is finally out, 22 months into the Biden administration. But what does it actually say?
By Valerie Insinna
China is still the pacing threat, but challenges like climate change, inflation and food insecurity “are not marginal issues, they are not secondary to geopolitics,” said National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.
By Valerie Insinna
Step-by-step plan shows that nearly 76 percent of the that $6.8 billion goes toward increasing the climate resiliency of Army installations with microgrids and vehicle electrification.
By Andrew Eversden
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken made a bold promise to the Pacific island leaders: “You can count on the United States partnering with you.”
By Colin Clark
The Navy’s deal with the city to generate energy credits is a “first-of-it-kind” agreement between San Diego Port and a Pentagon agency.
By Justin Katz
Insights 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.
The concept of solar power satellites, first posited in 1968, seems to be back in fashion — not just in the US with initiatives at DoD and NASA, but around the globe, including in Beijing.
By Theresa Hitchens
The war game is the first in a series of many to explore how the impact of climate change — from storms to fires — could affect operations, according to a senior official.
By Justin Katz
“So for example, if you collect an image of a…ground radar…and you determine that there’s also an electromagnetic signal coming from it that you collect through another platform and then you integrate it together, then that’s really interesting and it’s quite useful,” Air Force Deputy CIO Winston Beauchamp said.
By Jaspreet Gill
Above everything else there is the fundamental discussion of how will the rising power of China and the still mighty but relatively fading power of the United States compete.
By Colin Clark
Future wars may force the services to become more distributed and less reliant on major installations where power sources are available, which in turn “put[s] a premium on capabilities with longer range, time on station, endurance and the ability to adapt to evolving energy needs and technology.”
By Valerie Insinna
The strategy pushes the service to significantly reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 2035, and train soldiers to climate-ravaged combat zones.
By Andrew Eversden
A Russian invasion of Ukraine could derail the Defense Department’s planning.
By Valerie Insinna
