“There comes a point where there’s so many combatant commanders and so many service chiefs that I wonder at what point does the secretary of defense have a span of control where… getting to a decision and getting the right perspectives on the table becomes really difficult,” the Marine Corps leader said.
By Justin Katz“So if you don’t have an integration layer like that, then you have to go find all of the data sources yourself… This is something we don’t have yet in the department,” Lt. Gen. Michael Groen told Breaking Defense.
By Jaspreet GillTwo types of expert teams will help the 11 Combatant Commands make better use of data for decision-making, the deputy Defense Secretary said.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.“I think global integrated operations is really the next big ‘advantage space’ for the Department of Defense,” says Maj. Gen. John Nichols.
By Theresa Hitchens“This is foundational to who we are,” Goldfein says of the new all-domain operations warfighting concept.
By Theresa HitchensRussian and Chinese jammers could cripple US radio, radar, and GPS. The Pentagon’s still wrestling with who should fix that, let alone how.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.The military needs a globe-spanning network to counter threats that no single theater command can cope with. That takes more than just technology.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.CAPITOL HILL: The military’s new cyberspace force is working to overcome recruiting and retention shortfalls, training bottlenecks, and its dependence on the National Security Agency, officials told the Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday. These devils in the details are an inevitable part of standing up a new kind of force for a new kind of…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.WASHINGTON: Hey! Take off that Fitbit and turn it off. Hand in that Apple Watch. Make sure you’ve turned off the geolocation capabilities of your Garmin. That was the word today from Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan. For years, cell phones have been banned from many offices in the Pentagon, not to mention any Secure…
By Colin ClarkWASHINGTON: North Korea has cut the warning time America has to a “dozen minutes or so” before an ICBM launch because of the mobile launch trucks it’s using, according to the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. “We may have gone from tens of minutes to up to an hour (previously) to a dozen minutes…
By Colin ClarkThe Navy and Marine Corps hit the wall in 2017 with an string of deadly accidents. The newly named Secretary of the Navy, Richard Spencer, seems to be charting a collision course with joint commanders.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.PENTAGON: Navy Secretary Richard Spencer wants to change the law that’s governed the armed forces since 1986, the Goldwater-Nichols Act, to restore more autonomy to the services. Only by letting the Navy say “no” to joint combatant commanders’ insatiable demands for deployments can the fleet get adequate training, ship maintenance, and crew rest, argues the…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.WASHINGTON: The US can’t afford to modernize its military and increase its size at the same time, said the former deputy secretary of defense , Bob Work. It can’t build up war-ready forces to deter Russia and China while engaging in non-stop operations around the world, the way we have since 1991. If we have…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The Air Force wants to cut its workhorse drone, the MQ-9 Reaper. The combatant commanders that use the MQ-9 don’t want to see that happen.
By David Deptula