How The Space Development Agency Can Succeed

How The Space Development Agency Can Succeed
How The Space Development Agency Can Succeed

When new entities fail, it’s most often due to the fact they don’t do what they do better than their competition (differentiated value proposition is the business term) and they lack investment in talent and technology. But there are other challenges.

Budget Battle Could Delay Carrier Refueling, Limit Deployments

Budget Battle Could Delay Carrier Refueling, Limit Deployments
Budget Battle Could Delay Carrier Refueling, Limit Deployments

If Congress fails to pass the 2020 budget, the Navy will have to delay necessary repairs on two nuclear-powered carriers, further stretching the fleet at a critical time.

If Congress Punts Spending Bill, Navy’s New Frigate Would Suffer

If Congress Punts Spending Bill, Navy’s New Frigate Would Suffer
If Congress Punts Spending Bill, Navy’s New Frigate Would Suffer

The Navy is looking to get a new class of frigates in the water as soon as possible, but the budget wrangling between Congress and the White House might mean that gets put on hold.

UPDATED: House Bill Silent on Space Force, Sets Up Debate on Nuke Modernization

UPDATED: House Bill Silent on Space Force, Sets Up Debate on Nuke Modernization
UPDATED: House Bill Silent on Space Force, Sets Up Debate on Nuke Modernization

House Democrats release a 2020 defense policy bill that requires the Pentagon to write plenty of reports, but eases away from the HASC Chairman’s earlier remarks on nuclear modernization.

HASC to DoD: We’ll Do The Money, You Do A Tech Strategy

HASC to DoD: We’ll Do The Money, You Do A Tech Strategy
HASC to DoD: We’ll Do The Money, You Do A Tech Strategy

In a markup of the 2020 defense budget, the HASC tells the Pentagon to keep developing new tech but inform the Hill about how and where it might be used.

ATEC Appeals To Hill For Helicopter Engine Dough

ATEC Appeals To Hill For Helicopter Engine Dough
ATEC Appeals To Hill For Helicopter Engine Dough

Rebuffed by the Army and GAO in its bid to re-engine aging helicopters, ATEC has gone over their heads to Congress and asked legislators for a second chance.

Defense Spending Will Bust BCA Caps: Mark Cancian

Defense Spending Will Bust BCA Caps: Mark Cancian
Defense Spending Will Bust BCA Caps: Mark Cancian

One of Washington’s leading budget experts explains how bipartisan supporters of Pentagon funding will steamroll the Budget Control Act.

HAC Pumps Up NIST Research On Emerging Tech

HAC Pumps Up NIST Research On Emerging Tech
HAC Pumps Up NIST Research On Emerging Tech

House Appropriators add millions of dollars to the National Institute of Standards & Technology’s work on AI, cybersecurity, quantum computing, 3D printing, and 5G telecommunications.

House Dems Block Wall Funds, Slash Sub, But Add F-35s

House Dems Block Wall Funds, Slash Sub, But Add F-35s
House Dems Block Wall Funds, Slash Sub, But Add F-35s

The House Dems launch the first salvo in what promises to be a long defense budget saga, and they are drawing lines that will be hard to cross.

Congress, Pentagon Renew Old Fight Over 3rd Missile Defense Site

Congress, Pentagon Renew Old Fight Over 3rd Missile Defense Site
Congress, Pentagon Renew Old Fight Over 3rd Missile Defense Site

The Pentagon has long worried about the multi-billion dollar price tag that comes along with building a new interceptor field and its infrastructure. Influential lawmakers want a permanent site built that will support close to 1,000 jobs in their districts.

Failure IS An Option: Army Gen. Murray

Failure IS An Option: Army Gen. Murray
Failure IS An Option: Army Gen. Murray

The Army must take risks to modernize, the Futures Command chief said, and the modernization effort will survive the inevitable failures along the way.

Pentagon, Navy, In Dark About Trump’s USS Truman Decision

Pentagon, Navy, In Dark About Trump’s USS Truman Decision
Pentagon, Navy, In Dark About Trump’s USS Truman Decision

The Defense Secretary was given a last-minute heads-up about the White House’s demand to keep the USS Harry S. Truman afloat, and the Navy scrambled Wednesday morning to change its message to Congress.

War Of the Acquisition Reformers: 809 Panel Defends New Commercial Approach

War Of the Acquisition Reformers: 809 Panel Defends New Commercial Approach
War Of the Acquisition Reformers: 809 Panel Defends New Commercial Approach

When Washington heavyweights like Peter Levine, former Democratic staff director of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Bill Greenwalt, former deputy undersecretary of Defense for industrial policy and longtime Republican acquisition expert on the SASC, say you got something wrong, people listen. That is especially the case if you were the folks who Levine and…

China’s Theft & Espionage: What Must Be Done

China’s Theft & Espionage: What Must Be Done
China’s Theft & Espionage: What Must Be Done

Screening Chinese students and academics isn’t the solution when less than one percent of them are bad actors. So what will work?