B-21, hypersonics and more: How digital development is driving industry innovation
Technological advancements are key to keeping pace with customer demands and evolving threat landscapes.
“One of the things that was already useful … was an understanding that in order to get private capital deployed, you need clarity and some understanding about what the DoD will look like as a customer,” said board member and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman.
By Valerie Insinna
The institute will concentrate on artificial intelligence; autonomy; biotechnology; cyber; directed energy; command, control and communications; hypersonics; microelectronics; quantum science; space; and ‘5G to Next G.’
By Theresa Hitchens
This is the last opinion piece Mac Thornberry will write as a member of the House of Representatives (at least, that’s what his staff told us!). I’m personally honored he chose us because Rep. Thornberry is one of the relatively few defense lawmakers I have truly respected for his knowledge, his commitment to quality legislation…
By Rep. Mac Thornberry
“I’m hopeful that a strong vote can persuade the White House that there’s a better approach to that issue so you’re not punishing the troops for something that is totally unrelated,” Rep. Mac Thornberry said during his final press conference.
By Paul McLeary
Since its creation last December, the U.S. Space Force has been charged with rapidly countering growing threats in an increasingly important domain. To successfully meet this mission, the service will have to adapt in a number of ways. One of the most vital tasks will be reforming an acquisition process ill-suited to protect against these…
By Eric Fanning
Whatever happens with the 2021 budget, “:I suspect that the Pentagon’s budgets will start flattening out,” Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley said today. “There’s a reasonable prospect that they could actually decline significantly.”
By Paul McLeary
Enterprise-wide training: the Army’s $3.5B program for multi-service combat readiness
The competition for Warfighter Training and Readiness Solutions will bring together training networks, combat training centers and live ranges across the DoD enterprise.
Congress appropriates the amount it believes will be required based on the testimony and documents supplied by the Executive Branch to the Appropriations Committees of the House and Senate. If Congress were to loosen the restrictions on the use of funds it would only serve to weaken a system which is already far too short of discipline.
By Steve Cortese and Charlie Houy
Mackenzie Eaglen knows Congress (after all, she did work there) and she takes readers through the most important policy debates sparked by the two versions of the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act. Read on! The Editor. Much of the public debate about this year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) has focused on the renaming…
By Mackenzie Eaglen
Despite COVID-19 and a veto threat from President Trump, the HASC approved the $732 billion defense bill by a unanimous vote.
By Paul McLeary
To end annual panic spending to use up the budget, HASC wants to let DoD keep 50% of unspent Operations & Maintenance funds – if the appropriators allow it. A floor flight looms.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“The Guard and Reserves have existing space capabilities and talents that fit within the mission of the Space Force,” says Rep. Ken Calvert, ranking member on the House Appropriations defense subcommittee.
By Theresa Hitchens
The 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
DoD never entered its own classified testing into the record during the Ligado proceedings, according to FCC chair Ajit Pai, “despite the fact that we have procedures in place for filing classified materials with the FCC — procedures other agencies routinely have followed.”
By Theresa Hitchens
The “American spirit of adaptability that has played such a central role in our past success is even more necessary today if we are to remain a globally competitive country and economy,” writes former House Armed Services Chairman Mac Thornberry.
By Mac Thornberry