Stop The Madness of NATO Expansion
A larger NATO embroils the United States in obscure regional disputes, commits it to defend exposed countries, and unnecessarily antagonizes the Russians.
Jedi Contract Interference: Another Norm Broken? More Impeachment Bait?
What went wrong and what happens next? CSIS experts Mark Cancian & Andrew Hunter dive deep into JEDI.
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How defensive cyber responds to hockey-stick growth of AI-driven threats
Artificial intelligence is reshaping adversarial cyber operations at machine speed, requiring defenders to increase operational tempo while imposing pain and cost.
Sen. Warren Medicare Plan = No OCO, Lower Readiness
Sen. Warren: "And as everything from more F-35s to massive bombs never used in combat have migrated into the OCO account, the Department of Defense has been spared from having to prioritize or live within its means. It’s not just bad budgetary practice – it’s wasteful spending."
To CR Or Not To CR — How Bad Would A Full Year CR Be?
The clock is ticking, and the Senate, where floor time is always at a premium, has only 35 days in session after July 4th before fiscal 2020 begins (August is mostly recess, unless the Senate decides to enjoy the swelter of a Washington summer).
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.
2020 Budget: One Half Step Towards A Great Power Strategy
The Trump defense budget takes significant steps to move from a focus on regional conflicts and counter-insurgency to a focus on great power conflicts. But the Army, Navy Air Force and Marines clearly are struggling with this balance.
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The Future of Defense Manufacturing Will Be Distributed, Autonomous, and Software-Defined
How Roboze is helping transform additive manufacturing from a prototyping tool into production infrastructure for defense and critical industries.
2019 Forecast: Budget Battles & Confirmation Wars
Trump's pick to replace Sec. Jim Mattis will be a key indicator about where the president wants to drive the department -- and the confirmation process will show what the Senate will accept -- while the defense budget may be collateral damage from a bitterly divided Congress.
Mattis Vs. Mulvaney: The Coming Budget Clash & The Reagan Legacy
We have been here before. In 1982 Caspar Weinberger and David Stockman had a similar showdown referred by President Reagan. DOD won that time. What does that have to tell us about the impending Mulvaney–Mattis showdown? And if OMB wins this time, would Mattis stay on?
Democratic House Hurts Space Corps, Nuke Modernization, & Pentagon Topline
WASHINGTON: The Democrats’ recapturing the House means three major impacts on the Defense Department: The odds are that controversial Trump priorities like new nuclear weapons and a Space Force will go nowhere, defense budgets will go down, and oversight will go up, up, up. Program winners and losers The most likely losers are nuclear modernization […]
Trump Reverses The Defense Buildup: 2020 Cuts Analysis
Trump's plan would undercut the more expansive National Defense Strategy for "great power competition" that embattled Defense Secretary Jim Mattis rolled out just nine months ago.
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How Defense Teams Can Scale AI Without Increasing Data Risk
AI is expanding the mission data footprint across defense environments, increasing the need for scalable, layered data-at-rest (DAR) protection.
Congress Traded Operations & Maintenance For Modernization In 19 Appropriations
Now that President Trump has signed the fiscal 2019 defense appropriations bill — marking the first time in nine years that defense is not bound by a Continuing Resolution — the broad trend was cuts to Operational and Maintenance (O&M) to fund Research, Development, Testing, & Engineering (RDT&E). The top line was consistent with the […]
Air Force 386 Squadron Plan: Hallucination Or Negotiating Tactic
Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson announced “the Air Force we need”, a significant expansion of the Air Force from 312 operational squadrons to 386. One thing is clear. It will be really expensive. The annual additional cost would be about $37 billion at a time when budget projections show no increase, and up to 94,000 additional personnel, active and reserve.
What Really Matters In The Defense Authorization Act & What Didn’t Get Done
Most coverage of the annual defense policy bill has focused on program changes: more ships (including six icebreakers!), no change to F-35’s, more RDT&E, no JSTARS recap, a growl (but no more) on ZTE, and many more (the bill and report run 2,500 pages). Less discussed, but of more import in the long run, are the […]
Why Chairman Thornberry Failed To Tame DoD’s Fourth Estate
When House Armed Services Chairman Thornberry proposed eliminating seven agencies and reducing personnel by 25 percent, he faced strong opposition. In the HASC's draft bill, he scaled the proposal back to eliminating just three agencies. But that didn't work either. During the committee's markup of the House defense policy bill, members still pushed back.