Congress should give Pentagon more flexibility in buying, budgeting, report urges

Congress should give Pentagon more flexibility in buying, budgeting, report urges
Congress should give Pentagon more flexibility in buying, budgeting, report urges

The report, co-chaired by former Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James, encourages reforms in other parts of the government to speed up defense acquisition.

Theater Commands OK SDA’s Sat Plans: EXCLUSIVE

Theater Commands OK SDA’s Sat Plans: EXCLUSIVE
Theater Commands OK SDA’s Sat Plans: EXCLUSIVE

Military operators will be able (at least virtually) to ill be able to (at least virtually) “sit side-by-side, elbow-to-elbow with the SDA test team” as the various satellite “layers” are put through their paces.

INDOPACOM Drafts Regional Strategy For All-Domain Ops

INDOPACOM Drafts Regional Strategy For All-Domain Ops
INDOPACOM Drafts Regional Strategy For All-Domain Ops

The emerging Indo-Pacific Warfighting Concept has been drafted, but still has “a ways to go as far as working through the Department of Defense,” says INDOPACOM’s head of requirements, George Ka’iliwai.

Operational Comms, Missile Tracking Sats Up In 2024: SDA

Operational Comms, Missile Tracking Sats Up In 2024: SDA
Operational Comms, Missile Tracking Sats Up In 2024: SDA

The next group of satellites, “Tranche 1 is going to be a big deal,” says SDA Director Derek Tournear, ensuring troops have “persistent regional access” to comms and missile warning/tracking data.

COVID Delays Joint Warfighting Concept: Hyten

COVID Delays Joint Warfighting Concept: Hyten
COVID Delays Joint Warfighting Concept: Hyten

“By this time we were supposed to already have done three major war games and a Globally Integrated Exercise. And we’ve only done one of them, and that one was less than satisfactory because of all the restrictions we had to put in place for COVID,” Vice Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. John Hyten.

Esper Signals Importance Of All Domain & ABMS At AFA

Esper Signals Importance Of All Domain & ABMS At AFA
Esper Signals Importance Of All Domain & ABMS At AFA

The verbal pat on the back by the Defense Secretary at the biggest Air Force event of the year signals the program’s high priority for DoD writ large.

Milley Assigns Service Roles In All-Domain Ops Concept

The Air Force will lead work on the concept for command & control, the Navy will lead joint fires, and the Army has logistics.

Navy Kicks Off Most Advanced Wargames Since 1930s

Navy Kicks Off Most Advanced Wargames Since 1930s
Navy Kicks Off Most Advanced Wargames Since 1930s

Facing down a assertive China and resurgent Russia, the Navy is overhauling its strategy development, education and wargaming offices.

Modly’s Stunning About Face: Insults Roosevelt Skipper In Morning, Apology At Night

Modly’s Stunning About Face: Insults Roosevelt Skipper In Morning, Apology At Night
Modly’s Stunning About Face: Insults Roosevelt Skipper In Morning, Apology At Night

“I stand by every word I said,” Modly said in a defiant statement after audio of his remarks leaked. But after a Pentagon spokesman declined to support him during an afternoon press conference, and negative public sentiment poured in, Modly reversed course in a remarkably contrite statement released Monday night.

COVID-19: WH Relocates Space Council Meet; Space Symposium Postponed

COVID-19: WH Relocates Space Council Meet; Space Symposium Postponed
COVID-19: WH Relocates Space Council Meet; Space Symposium Postponed

Vice President Mike Pence still is scheduled to chair the upcoming National Space Council meeting despite the White House decision to cancel the public event.

All-Domain Ops Require Rethinking Combatant Commands: Goldfein

All-Domain Ops Require Rethinking Combatant Commands: Goldfein
All-Domain Ops Require Rethinking Combatant Commands: Goldfein

“This is foundational to who we are,” Goldfein says of the new all-domain operations warfighting concept.

Coronavirus: Army Experts Press Hard For Vaccines, Diagnostics

Coronavirus: Army Experts Press Hard For Vaccines, Diagnostics
Coronavirus: Army Experts Press Hard For Vaccines, Diagnostics

An elite team of researchers from Fort Detrick and Walter Reed briefed the Army Secretary and Chief of Staff last night. But are funding shortfalls, reorganization, and Pentagon politics getting in the way?

SecDef Eyeing Moving Billions By Eliminating Offices, Legacy Systems

SecDef Eyeing Moving Billions By Eliminating Offices, Legacy Systems
SecDef Eyeing Moving Billions By Eliminating Offices, Legacy Systems

The Pentagon is about to pitch Congress on a plan to move $5.7 billion from legacy programs to new modernization efforts. Some offices are going to feel some pain.

Strong Space Acquisition Leader A Must: Wilson

Strong Space Acquisition Leader A Must: Wilson
Strong Space Acquisition Leader A Must: Wilson

Creation of the Space Development Agency was “disconnected from the threat and the needs of the warfighter,” say Wilson, thus “highly unlikely to survive serious scrutiny.”