HAC Stiffs New Commerce Bureau for Satellite Regulation
House appropriators rejected Trump's plan to put satellite regulation under the Commerce Department and chide Secretary Wilbur Ross for his refusal to testify on the 2020 budget request.
Space Force: It’s Not Dead, But…
CSIS's Todd Harrison, who supports the proposal, says his odds on the Space Force being fully approved by Congress this year are currently "slightly less than 50 percent."
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Keeping sensitive information safe in a new AI era
Why edge and endpoint security can’t be an afterthought.
House Dems Block Wall Funds, Slash Sub, But Add F-35s
The House Dems launch the first salvo in what promises to be a long defense budget saga, and they are drawing lines that will be hard to cross.
How To Make Sure The Army’s Big Six Get Built
If the Army wants to get its Big Six right, it must talk, and talk and talk with Congress and the press and industry. And be ready to drop failures.
The Army’s Plan To Save The Wounded In Future War
Even with faster medevac aircraft, uparmored ambulances, and more medical personnel at the front, will casualties get to life-saving care within the "golden hour"?
Top Appropriator Urges Army To Help Him Pass Their Budget
Is the Army doing enough to sell Congress on its five-year, $57 billion modernization plan? And does that long-term effort require a long-term leader?
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GPS: Still the gold standard in global navigation
The GPS network continues to prove its unmatched reliability, and it’s only getting stronger.
New Evidence Of Conflict of Interest In JEDI Contract
WASHINGTON The massive and troubled $10 billion cloud contract the Pentagon has been pursuing has run into another snag. DoD revealed Tuesday it has obtained “new information” pointing to potential of conflicts of interest in the competition, already widely criticized for favoring Amazon Web Services. Pentagon spokesperson Elissa Smith confirmed to Breaking Defense that “new […]
Talk To Us First, THEN Congress: Navy Acquisition Officials
“From an industry perspective, calling us, engaging us, talking to us, and synchronizing that alignment can be most helpful. It can also be, frankly, harmful if the appropriators or the authorizers get some stray voltage that doesn’t match up to the story."
With Funding In Peril, Coast Guard Pushes Icebreaker As ‘Polar Security Cutter’
"One of the things that we did early in my tenure was we changed (it to) Polar Security Cutter as we were trying to get the funds from the Congress, from our own department, the administration," Coast Guard Commandant Karl Schultz told Breaking Defense.
HAC-D Members Want Investigation into JEDI Competition
Two lawmakers don't mention Amazon Web Services by name in their letter to the DoD IG, but the Web retailer is all over the complaint.
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Data overload threatens decisionmakers as autonomy expands
Reducing cognitive overload on warfighters while improving “time to trust” for autonomous systems is a matter of design.
Congress Traded Operations & Maintenance For Modernization In 19 Appropriations
Now that President Trump has signed the fiscal 2019 defense appropriations bill — marking the first time in nine years that defense is not bound by a Continuing Resolution — the broad trend was cuts to Operational and Maintenance (O&M) to fund Research, Development, Testing, & Engineering (RDT&E). The top line was consistent with the […]
Aircraft Win Big In FY19 Appropriations: Munitions, Space, Marines Hammered
The big news about the $674.4 billion defense appropriation that conferees agreed to yesterday is that, for the first time in nine years, it's on time. But in a budget this big, even the "small" items are billions of dollars, and there are plenty of devils in them thar details.
US Needs Hi-Lo Mix Of ‘Exquisite’ & Affordable ISR: Intel Official
"Those will be debates we'll have over the next couple of years, and those are some tough choices," intelligence official Kevin Sherman told me. "Do we reduce some of those capabilities have been very helpful in the CT (counter-terrorism) fight, that a lot of our combatant commands have relied on, in order to buy more exquisite things?"
Wittman, Courtney Question Omnibus Ship Numbers, Funding
Wait — doesn’t this omnibus fund 14 new ships for the Navy, compared to 13 in the National Defense Authorization Act and just eight in President Trump’s request? Yes, but not all ships are created equal, Wittman said.