The final OIG report redacts details in the draft version, obtained by Breaking Defense, about how arguments by top military brass jumped Colorado Springs to DoD's first choice only days before Trump's briefing.
US leaders this year faced difficult decisions against a backdrop of rapidly growing challenges from potential adversaries, and a booming commercial space sector that innovation-wise is leaving the Defense Department and the Intelligence Community in the dust.
As aircraft shrink, threats expand, and technology accelerates, aircraft engines must iterate along with the threats.
As the Biden administration cuts it close with critical post, one analyst said Grady is a former fleet operator versed in "the challenges of dealing with day-to-day activities to counter adversaries and deter aggression."
Gen. Hyten said he's "probably" going to approve "today or tomorrow a new requirement for Integrated Air and Missile Defense," which is a pillar of the Joint Warfighting Concept (JWC).
"It is going to take us 10 to 15 years to modernize 400 silos that already exist. And China is basically building almost that many overnight. So the speed of difference in that threat is what really concerns me most," Gen. John Hyten, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs says.
In mid-August, Breaking Defense revealed a push inside the Pentagon to take a black anti-satellite system, declassify it and make a public demonstration of its capabilities. Surrounding that issue is a long-running debate about how much of its space capabilities the US should keep secret. In this op-ed, Christopher Stone of the Mitchell Institute argues […]
Onshoring and investment in military-specific semiconductors anchor a cornerstone of the defense industrial base.
The push to declassify an existing space weapon is being spearheaded by Gen. John Hyten, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
"I would like to have overhead sensors that see everything, characterize everything that goes on on this planet from a missile perspective, all the time everywhere. ... That's unobtainium right now," says VCJCS Gen. John Hyten.
"Today's EMS Superiority Strategy combined our electromagnetic warfare and spectrum equities for the first time ever,” said Vice Chairman John Hyten. "The Strategy's I-Plan sets us on a path to dominate the future battle space. We are determined to get there and achieve spectrum superiority in all domains."
While there are no "major technical hurdles," an Air Force officer said a redesign for a sensor faring is needed.
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The new Joint Warfighting Concept to guide military operations for the next 30 years is "aspirational," and now must be fleshed out as best the Pentagon can with the resources available, says Gen. John Hyten, vice JCS chair.
The Joint Warfighting Concept "is an excellent concept, but the concept is just that -- it's a concept. That concept is going to drive experimentation, it's going to drive future capabilities and future doctrine, but right now it's just the concept and we're still learning with it," VCJCS Gen. John Hyten says.
The JROC has tagged the Space Force "officially and formally as the integrator for all joint space requirements," says vice chief Gen. DT Thompson.
"One of the requirements is going to be that all data developed and produced by every weapon system we have has to be made accessible, period," Gen. John Hyten said today.