Raymond Unveils Classified Target Tracking Space Radar Effort
"The space-based GMTI system will replace a portion of the JSTARS sensing capability" and "will support all combatant commands," Space Force spokesperson Col. Catie Hague explains.
DIU Seeks Prototype Sat Terminal For Army All-Domain Ops
The mobile TITAN satellite ground station is a critical node in Army plans for all-domain operations.
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Turning R&D into reality to meet the challenges of the modern battlefield
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
Wang Liqiang: Chinese Defector, Fraud or Both?
One of the biggest stories in Asia is the subject of this op-ed by former American senior intelligence official Nick Eftimiades. For an intriguing perspective on this, check out this China Daily “editorial” on Wang. Read on! The Editor. This month, the People’s Republic of China and its intelligence services again made headlines in the world […]
Intel Community Grapples With Key Open Source Intel
“In our defeat-ISIS activities, we’ve had a struggle and presently continue to struggle with the challenge of open source and publicly available information, and how we leverage that to make it truly useful for the warfighter,” Jospeh Votel, former head of both Special Operations Command and Central Command.
Israelis Test Classified Tunnel Tech To Stymie Terrorists; US Watches
It is a highly classified system based on sensors that monitor what is happening on the ground and provide warning in the event of a cavity discovery, but its full details may not be published.
China’s Theft & Espionage: What Must Be Done
Screening Chinese students and academics isn't the solution when less than one percent of them are bad actors. So what will work?
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Next-generation C2 won’t be next-gen without the network transport
The network transport architecture for NGC2 could be a hybrid approach that combines high assurance communications with 5G, WiFi, and multi-orbit satellites.
Red Flag 2019: First Great Power Air War Test In Years
How are Air Force pilots training for a war with Russia or China?
Aid To Israel Isn’t Foreign Aid; It’s An Investment
Israel faces increasingly tight restrictions on its Foreign Military Financing from the U.S., as Breaking D readers know. In the past, when the US provided Israeli with grants under the Foreign Military Financing (FMF) program, Israel could convert 25 percent of the aid from dollars into shekels to buy Israeli products and support local R&D. The […]
Counterterror Costs Since 911: $2.8 TRILLION And Climbing
WASHINGTON: After a small group of forlorn men huddled in the middle of Afghanistan succeeded in their plan to strike the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon, America declared a global war against them. That war has sucked almost $3 trillion dollars from the US, according to a study by the respected Stimson Center […]
DoD, Industry Sparring Over New Cyber Rules, Ellen Lord Says
Ellen Lord, the Pentagon's chief weapons buyer, told a small group of reporters here Friday morning that her office is trying to put rules in place to protect against buying “software that has Russian or Chinese provenance, for instance, and quite often that's difficult to tell at first glance because of holding companies," that move the software through the open market.
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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.
Pentagon-Run AI Center Coming, Hypersonics Work in Progress
The Pentagon wants its new AI center up and running in six months, but is taking a different track on directed energy and hypersonics, Deputy Defense Secretary Shanahan says.
Will Israeli Air Force Buy More F-15s Or F-35s; Intel May Tip Balance
TEL AVIV: The Israeli Air Force (IAF) may delay the acquisition of a third Lockheed Martin F-35 squadron in favor of a fast purchase of additional new versions of the F-15. In recent deliberations within the IAF’s high command, the leading direction was clear – -priority for the additional F-15’s while delaying the purchase of […]
Space Acquisition Fixes Will ‘Blow Your Socks Off;’ More On KC-46: SecAF Wilson
There will be organizational alterations, changes to "the way we are doing business" and, perhaps most importantly, Wilson said there will be "cultural change." They will also try to prioritize what "our go-fast projects are."
What Trump’s First Nuclear Posture Review Should Do
If we’re lucky, the fourth Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) will encourage a reawakening of strategic analysis and renewed efforts to assess the role of nuclear weapons in US national security. If we’re not, and this is more likely, we’ll find ourselves awash in time-worn arguments about assured destruction, limited war, arms limitation, modernization, and morality. […]