Colin Clark, the founding editor of Breaking Defense, is now our Indo-Pacific Bureau Chief, based in Sydney, Australia. In addition to his foundational efforts at Breaking Defense, Colin also started DoDBuzz.com, the world’s first all-online defense news website. He’s covered Congress, intelligence and regulatory affairs for Space News; founded and edited the Washington Aerospace Briefing, a newsletter for the space industry; covered national security issues for Congressional Quarterly; and was editor of Defense News. Colin is an avid fisherman, grill genius and wine drinker, all of which are only part of the reason he relishes the opportunity to live in Australia.
The service plans to buy 48 F-35As and 12 F-15EXs for $4.5 billion and $1.3 billion, but the F-35 buy is almost certain to increase once it hits Capitol Hill. The Air Force also wants to buy 14 KC-46s for $2.4 billion.
The United States must do more to counter China's "aggressive and coercive actions," which Biden's presumptive Defense Secretary calls "an increasingly urgent challenge to our vital interests in the Indo-Pacific region and around the world."
The Sixth Domain is not defined by geography. It’s a new kind of conflict in which autonomy and networked systems allow thousand-dollar consumer electronics to destroy multi-million-dollar conventional weapons systems.
The Joint Chiefs say they "witnessed actions inside the Capitol building that were inconsistent with the rule of law. The rights of freedom of speech and assembly do not give anyone the right to resort to violence, sedition and insurrection."
Watch the full video of our 45-minute interview with Preston Dunlap, Chief Architect of the Air and Space Forces.
With over two decades in the Pentagon under Clinton, Bush, and Obama, Kathleen Hicks brings the civilian bureaucratic experience that retired Gen. Lloyd Austin sorely lacks. Neither has the political clout of a Jim Mattis or a Bob Gates.
Santa's swinging by to help them celebrate the twentieth year of humans living continuously in the station. (As I write this, NORAD has pinpointed Santa swinging by Valetta, Malta)
Government can’t stop to update systems, so modernization has to happen without interruptions.
“On the eve of Christmas Eve, this veto seems to be Trump’s parting gift to Putin and a lump of coal for our troops," Sen. Jack Reed says.
The most overlooked story of 2020, including by this publication, is that having a president largely divorced from making military decisions worked pretty well for the US military.
The list is an impressive marker of the breadth of topics we cover as we chronicle the strategy, policy and politics that decide the weapons America and its allies buy, and how we use them.
WASHINGTON: Welcome to the sixth of our video stories drawn from our almost hour-long interview with Preston Dunlap, Chief Architect of the Air and Space Forces. From that position, Dunlap helps guide the complex and far-reaching work the Air and Space Forces are doing in All Domain Operations, on JADC2,and, most centrally, on the Advanced Battle […]
As threats rapidly evolve, digital engineering, manufacturing capacity and robust supply chains are critical to meeting challenges.
In part five of our exclusive video interview, Preston Dunlap outlines the Air Force and Navy's relations on All Domain Operations.
In part four of our exclusive video interview, Preston Dunlap discusses one of toughest challenges to All Domain Operations: integrating an effective tactical edge node into the larger network.
In part three of our exclusive video interview, Preston Dunlap chats about the remarkable idea of a CAOC in a tablet and how it can help strengthen and make more flexible the kill chain.
In part two of our exclusive video interview, Preston Dunlap gives a sneak peek at what the key Joint Warfighting Construct, expected in December, might look like.