While analysts told Breaking Defense a Trump administration would likely be a more unpredictable one, they also said that equally, if not more important, will be whichever party controls the houses of Congress where the defense budget is crafted.
"The Army still has a lot of work to do," Christine Wormuth said in an interview with Breaking Defense about her tenure, her priorities and those secretary of defense rumors.
CAE and General Atomics use AI to enhance warfighter readiness, refine aerospace platforms, and learn from simulations.
The policy imposes extensive safeguards on a host of AI applications, from intelligence reports and collateral damage assessments to cyber warfare and nuclear strikes.
In this op-ed, Mark Cancian with CSIS lays out some idea for how to make transition papers from think tanks actually matter to a new administration.
In this op-ed, Dustin Walker and Mackenzie Eaglen of AEI assert that the US will struggle to keep hitting 3 percent of GDP spending if the budget doesn't expand dramatically.
“I'd like to see in a Harris administration, a commitment to the innovation reform agenda at DoD,” said HASC Ranking Member Rep. Adam Smith. “That really has, I think, stalled a little bit."
Hybrid communications requirements will shape the Army’s data infrastructure of the future.
"With regards to the election, we think that deterrence and deterrence capabilities are an enduring theme, regardless of which party is in the executive branch or who's in control of Congress," said Lockheed Martin COO Frank St. John.
“I have been sort of bludgeoned into being desensitized to [CRs] that go all the way to December in situations like this,” Pentagon Comptroller Mike McCord said. “I would love to see it only go… ‘til right after the election. But I think that would surprise me if it didn't go straight to December.”
“Now, everyone is waiting for November: Americans are waiting for November. Europe, the Middle East, the Pacific — the whole world is waiting for November,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.