Industry Worries Friction Twixt NRO-NGA On Commercial Imagery
NGA and NRO "have significantly overlapping Venn diagrams," one industry source said, and they are still trying to "sort that through." He added, "It's not a nice clean line."
The Global Battle Over 5G: Trump And Huawei
In the next six to 12 months, country after country is deciding what companies get to build new 5G networks. India and Italy remain open to a Huawei bid, at least for now; Britain, Canada, and Germany are on the fence; while France, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand have said no.
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Undersea superiority: ASELSAN’s integrated approach to naval defense
As global navies adapt to evolving underwater threats, ASELSAN’s integrated sonar, countermeasure, and sonobuoy solutions offer a scalable, future-ready approach.
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.
Afghanistan Won’t Go Down Like Iraq, Gen. Dunford Tells Senate
CAPITOL HILL: Afghanistan won’t go downhill like Iraq, the next Marine Corps Commandant told the Senate Armed Services Committee, because the US isn’t withdrawing in the same precipitous way. In fact, we’re not withdrawing, just transitioning. “I was one of the thousands of Marines who served in the Anbar province,” now fallen to the Islamic […]
Sen. Ayotte To Air Force: Get Me A-10 Answers; Keeps SecAF Nominee Hold
CAPITOL HILL: While the federal government remains supine and Congress fails to pass appropriations bills, at least one lawmaker is engaged in a classic use of senatorial privilege: placing a hold on the nomination of a senior administration official. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, who has made clear her unease with what appears to be the Air […]
Isolationists Score While Hagel Scrambles To Maintain US Power; Lockheed To Furlough 3,000
UPDATED: Lockheed Now Plans 2,400 Furloughs After DoD Decides To Bring Back Civilian Workers (10/7 at 12:45 p.m) WASHINGTON: OK. That headline is deliberately provocative. But here’s the evidence. The president of the United States cancels an important trip to Asia — including the first visit by a president to the increasingly powerful state of […]
Modernizing defense enterprise IT without disrupting the mission
Government can’t stop to update systems, so modernization has to happen without interruptions.
CyberCom Elevation To Stand-Alone Command On SecDef’s Desk; Sen. Levin Cautions Pentagon
CAPITOL HILL: The rumor has been rife for weeks: Cyber Command is about to be elevated to a command equal to the powerful regional combatant commands such as Central and Pacific Commands. This would make what many observers regard as the natural maturation of the increasingly important command, as well as its separation from the […]