OTAs Soar & Army Leads The Way: CSIS Report
Army Contracting Command still accounts for 45 percent of all DoD Other Transaction Authority obligations, but the Air Force and, belatedly, the Navy are starting to catch up.
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).
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Navigation warfare is about the battle to assure positioning, navigation, and timing
The U.S. Army’s MAPS Gen II program of record for assured PNT provides an authoritative and reliable source of truth for combat vehicles in a highly contested battlespace.
Hold Joint Armed Services-Foreign Relations Defense Hearings
The best way for America to develop a consensus on what our defense and global security commitments should be is for Congress to have a lengthy series of posture hearings that delve deeply into these issues. They could be jointly held by the Armed Services and Foreign Affairs committees from the two chambers, patterned […]
No, The Pentagon Did NOT Waste $28 Billion
One of our primary goals here at Breaking Defense is to try and avoid the madness of the daily news cycle and tell our readers what is really happening, as best as any human can tell at any time. The following explanation by two experienced defense budget experts of what really happened to $28 billion discussed in a […]
No Light Attack Planes Any Time Soon: Air Force Undersecretary
AFA: The Air Force won’t issue a Request For Information on possible Light Attack aircraft, originally scheduled to come out December, in favor of doing a lot more experiments, Air Force Undersecretary Matt Donovan told reporters this morning. The service has been dithering for over a decade about whether to buy propeller-driven aircraft for affordable close […]
Navy Kicks Off New LCS Deployments; Training Questions Remain
WASHINGTON: After years of delays, budget fights, and searing debates over the role that the ship will play, three Littoral Combat Ships will head out on their first deployments this year. “We’re deploying LCS this year. It’s happening. Two ships are going on the West Coast, one ship is going on the East Coast,” said […]
The questions that warfighters ask the most are now answered with data analytics
CDAO’s Advana data analytics platform is ingesting data from about 500 DoD business systems.
Top HASC Republican Rejects Using Defense Funds For Border Wall
"I am opposed to using defense dollars for non-defense purposes," Rep. Mac Thornberry said. “Seems to me we ought to fund border security needs on their own and not be taking it from other accounts.”
Trump Calls For Arms Control, Rips Own Defense Budget As “Crazy”
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump injected a fresh dose of uncertainty over defense spending Monday when he derided 2019’s defense budget — which he readily signed and has praised for months — as “Crazy!” The sharp turn in sentiment came in another dreaded early-morning presidential tweet that often shift the talking points for entire segments of […]
What Northrop’s $54M Unified Platform Win Means For Cyber War
The goal is to give the 6,200-strong Cyber Mission Force a common, compatible set of tools so they can act in cyberspace as a coordinated military unit.
White House Slashes DoD Budget– Maybe
The White House surprised DoD with a last-minute $33 billion budget trim last week. But it's far from certain that the cuts will outlive months of haggling between the Trump administration, the Pentagon and Congress.
Modern Tech in Indo-Pacific Operations
Explore how networked warfare, AI, and 3D-printed drones are reshaping US Indo-Pacific strategy.
With Funding In Peril, Coast Guard Pushes Icebreaker As ‘Polar Security Cutter’
"One of the things that we did early in my tenure was we changed (it to) Polar Security Cutter as we were trying to get the funds from the Congress, from our own department, the administration," Coast Guard Commandant Karl Schultz told Breaking Defense.
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.
Army Futures Command Wants YOU (To Innovate)
“I get really irritated when I’m in the audience and I hear ‘startup, startup, startup,'” Army Futures Command's chief innovation officer said this morning at the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA). “Startups are not the only source of ideas."
Marines Furiously Cutting Programs As Tighter Budgets Loom
As old programs go, the Corps is looking at new cyber capabilities and getting back into the air defense game.