The armed services agree they need to work together better — they just don’t agree on how. Now the Joint Staff is taking a hand.
By Theresa HitchensB-21, hypersonics and more: How digital development is driving industry innovation
Technological advancements are key to keeping pace with customer demands and evolving threat landscapes.
Today, “we have Navy-only systems,” said Vice Adm. Lewis, “which is really frustrating” — in fact, it’s “asinine.”
By Theresa Hitchens
In an exclusive statement, the ambitious USMC Commandant says the exercises are shock testing “what we will expect to see in a realistic fight where large forces are spread out over great distances.”
By Paul McLeary
“I suppose it is possible it could happen,” CSIS’s Todd Harrison says of a one-year CR for DoD, “but it never has happened and it is unlikely it ever will.”
By Theresa Hitchens
The long road the F-35 took to finally being ready to deploy has forced the Navy’s new $13 billion carrier class to leave the plane behind — for now at least.
By Paul McLeary
Training for electronic warfare threats is too easy, leaving troops dangerously unready for great power conflict. Scenarios are so unrealistic that one officer called them “garbage.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Navy Secretary Richard Spencer continues to lay into aircraft carrier builder Huntington Ingalls, as his acquisition chief tries to smooth things over on Capitol Hill.
By Paul McLeary
Enterprise-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.
Impressed by tests against low-flying drones, the services are collaborating to increase both power and precision to take on tougher threats.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
As the Navy scrambles to get enough parts and people to move carriers back out to sea, it’s facing a crowded waterfront at Norfolk.
By Paul McLeary
The Navy, facing a budget crunch in the near future, is looking for more punch from fewer ships, a top Admiral says.
By Paul McLeary
Richard Spencer was taking no prisoners in remarks today, accusing Congress of failing to fund his plans and spreading “disinformation” about shipbuilding programs.
By Paul McLeary
The services are collaborating as never before, officials said, as they outsource non-combat networks through new “IT as a service” contracts.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The Navy faces huge hurdles in trying to get to 355 ships – but a new shipbuilding plan due in coming weeks could change the whole calculus.
By Paul McLeary
The new commandant says the Corps has to start “unshackling ourselves from previous notions of what war looks like and reimagining how Marines will train, how we will operate, and how we will fight.”
By Paul McLeary
