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.
"We think clearly it's time for the Air Force and other governmental entities to engage and direct the right solution. Northrop has chosen not to do that," Frank McCall, Boeing’s director of strategic deterrence systems, said.
The U.S. has 156 bombers today. But the Air Force is committed to boasting 386 squadrons, up 75 from its total today. "Certainly," Gen. Timothy Ray said, "that means good growth for the bombers."
The GPS network continues to prove its unmatched reliability, and it’s only getting stronger.
This day remains a special marker for all Americans, our friends, allies and our adversaries. It stands on its own, emblazoned in our minds.
Severe instability in the national security establishment raises questions not about the president's policy judgements, but about the government's ability to plan for and implement those decisions.
NATIONAL HARBOR: A key capability the Defense Department has relied on since the late Andy Marshall invented it — Net Assessment — is coming to the Intelligence Community. But wait, you say. Doesn’t the National Intelligence Council do long range strategic analysis? Well, not nearly as far out as Net Assessment does, which is 20 […]
"We've got teams that are working side by side with the JAIC team and obviously the leadership continuity there is key for us. And we're also working across DoD. I see lines with the AIM initiative (Augmenting Intelligence using Machines) within the IC."
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
Before the Air Force will trust AI to pick out targets, Gen. Holmes said, it has to get smarter than a human three-year-old.
In April 2018 the government hit a high point of 725,000 delayed clearances. Today, the number has dipped below 360,000. In May, we reported that would-be federal employees and defense contractors waited an average of 221 days for a Secret clearance and 534 days for a Top Secret clearance.
Under Gen. Milley the Army went from two ready brigades to 25 and it finally -- after at least three false starts -- began to shed the heavy weight of the Cold War weapons known as the Big Five.
As Mark Lewis, an expert on hypersonics at the Institute for Defense Analyses, said here at the NDIA conference: "You can’t walk more than 10 feet in the Pentagon without hearing the word hypersonics."
The network transport architecture for NGC2 could be a hybrid approach that combines high assurance communications with 5G, WiFi, and multi-orbit satellites.
There was more bad news for Boeing today, even after the company announced it lost $5 billion due to civilian airliner crashes. This time, the hit came on the defense side of the house.
Newer A, B and C Variant aircraft are averaging greater than 60 percent mission capable rates, with some units consistently at or above 70 percent.
The Iranian seizure of a British tanker in the Persian Gulf sends a new jolt of tension through the Middle East as complications arise on multiple fronts.
"Transparency (canopy) supply shortages continue to be the main obstacle to achieving this. We are seeking additional sources to fix unserviceable canopies," Esper said in response to written questions from the Senate Armed Services Committee.