Bill Greenwalt argues the US needs to increase its current level of defense spending by 3% to 5% a year in real terms, because China, our principal geostrategic competitor, is already outspending us on defense and time is not on our side. Greenwalt comes to this conclusion by claiming that in estimating the size of […]
The single biggest increase in proposed year-over-year cyber funding appears to be for cryptology, and the budget includes a new line item for zero-trust architectures.
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.
“We have a lot of people programs and we tried to protect those. Secondly, we tried to protect readiness. Third, we tried to protect modernization,” acting secretary John Whitley says.
"Everything we're doing now is going to be hard," SOCOM commander Gen. Richard Clarke said. “It's going to be multi-domain, it's going to be partnered and it's going to be contested in every step...and there are countries that are close on our heels.”
White House decides to slide war-funding accounts into the base budget, which will stress programs barely keeping up with inflation
The release of the top budget numbers will set the stage for a months-long battle on Capitol Hill between budget hawks and an emboldened progressive wing of the Democratic Party over spending priorities.
As aircraft shrink, threats expand, and technology accelerates, aircraft engines must iterate along with the threats.
Congress is skeptical of the augmented-reality IVAS goggles, which can display everything from cross-hairs for targeting to simulated enemy soldiers for training.
The report, delivered to Capitol Hill on Monday, sketches out the ask for the 2022 budget and in the years out to 2027, envisioning a long-range plan that Indo-Pacom commander Adm. Phil Davidson first introduced last year.
The full budget, set to be released on May 3, should spark heated debate in Congress between an emboldened progressive wing of the Democratic party looking to cut defense budgets, and Republicans and conservative Democrats who say spending must increase to stay ahead of the Chinese military buildup.
"The whole reason we’re doing this is because the National Defense Strategy talks about the need to do cost effective [counter-terrorism] operations, cost effective irregular warfare,” AFSOC commander Gen. Slife said.
Six companies have already signed up for a new flight-test program to mature their autonomy software.
This newest temporary job could signal a new role for Guerts in the Austin Pentagon, given his deep knowledge of Navy and Special Operations modernization projects over the past decade
The Unmanned Campaign Plan, which has been in the works for months, promises to be the first time the Navy will wrap all of its unmanned efforts together into a coherent whole.
With a presidential veto hanging in the air, Congress charges ahead on huge federal spending votes.
"The contradictions and the flaws in this report are so blatant that I think it's a pretty weak reed to lean on...given the fact that [the Trump administration] basically were just doing Obama's shipbuilding plan up until this point," says Rep. Joe Courtney