The question of whether the Defense Department or the primes should own all the data rights to various elements of the FVL program is a simplistic, false choice, says a CSBA senior fellow.
By Barry Rosenberg“DIU is punching above its weight and having an impact beyond its size,” acquisition guru Bill Greenwalt says. “Still, that will not be enough…. Unless the rest of the Department and Congress learns these lessons, we will continue to fall behind China.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.Convincing Congress that cutting carriers, building hundreds of unmanned ships, and constructing new classes of small boats will take some work.
By Paul McLearyThe National Defense Strategy called the Indo-Pacific the DoD’s priority theater. “But all of us also recognize that strategy is budget and budget is strategy, and the budget numbers have not supported, to date, the Indo Pacific’s role as the primary theater.”
By Paul McLeary“I know $178 billion, by anybody’s standard, is a lot of money, but I gotta tell you, this is a million-man Army,” the deputy comptroller told reporters. But cutting manpower is off the table – for now.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.We asked some of Washington’s best informed and smartest people about the likely consequences of the killing of Iran’s Qassem Soleimani.
By Colin Clark, Theresa Hitchens and Paul McLearyCSBA says the US is investing in the wrong jammers to counter Russia and China’s powerful EW forces. There’s another approach that would exploit our adversaries’ weaknesses.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.A new study points out that the Navy should do better at tracking how many ships it can call on in a pinch.
By Paul McLearyInstead of building a 100-kilowatt weapon, the Army now plans to leap straight to 250 or even 300 kW — which could shoot down much tougher targets.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.The US could develop more than a dozen different land-based weapons for $7 to $12 billion, thinktank CSBA estimates.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.Are big, expensive vessels like amphibious ships and carriers too vulnerable in a long-range missile war with Russia or China?
By Paul McLearyCAPITOL HILL: Threatened by hundreds of precision-guided munitions now in the hands of Russia and China, the Navy and Marine Corps continue to search for technologies and tactics that will allow them to operate close to the coastline without unsustainable losses. “We’re going to need long-range fires that can operate from a ship or from…
By Paul McLeary
The Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments has some new ideas for how even relatively poor allies can help keep the peace in the Pacific.
By Bryan Clark and Timothy Walton