AFRL Cyber Center To Train How To Hack Sensors (Think IoT)
The Air Force sees the New Mexico training environment as eventually becoming a cyber training range for the entire Defense Department.
AF Education & Training Shifts To ‘Space Warfighting Ethos’: Gen. Webb
"Gen. Raymond has asked me, in particular, to make sure that we are incorporating all aspects of space warfighting ... into our curriculum."
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Why enterprise IT modernization matters now – and how to “delight by design”
Do more with less: streamline workflows, reduce duplication, invest upfront to save long-term.
Target, Kaliningrad: Air Force Puts Putin On Notice
The threat of long-range missile launchers in the Russian enclave is driving the Air Force to develop new tactics for multi-domain attack and dispersed defense.
Realistic Simulators Boost Israeli Special Ops Troops
Breaking Defense contributor Arie Egozi was granted access to a usually classified simulator center Israeli troops and special operators use to train for particularly dangerous operations. Read on! The Editor. TEL AVIV: An Israeli defense forces (IDF) commando unit prepares an attack on a target in an area controlled by hostile terror groups. When the […]
Army To Build New Info War Force – Fast
The Army is already struggling to man its new cyber units -- and now it wants to expand their ranks and responsibilities for a new mission.
US Upgrades Ukrainian Ports To Fit American Warships
WASHINGTON: As tensions rise between Russia and Ukraine on the Black Sea, the US is upgrading several Ukrainian naval bases to give American and NATO warships the ability to dock just miles from Russia-controlled Crimea. Centered at the Ochakiv Naval Base and the military facility at Mykolaiv — 40 miles east of Odessa and less […]
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Answering the demand signal to move faster, field sooner, iterate continuously
As threats rapidly evolve, digital engineering, manufacturing capacity and robust supply chains are critical to meeting challenges.
Poland Deal Lays Groundwork For Division-Strength Deployment
A division-scale exercise next year in Europe, Defender 2020, will be the largest in a quarter-century.
US-Turkey Relations At Precipice; Turks Start S-400 Training
The Pentagon appears to be ready to take further action in the long-running saga over Turkey and the F-35.
Let The (War) Games Begin: Army Buying High-Tech Training Sims
After decades using the same clunky simulators, the Army is about to buy new sims drawing on the latest innovations in online gaming.
How To Wage Global Cyber War: Nakasone, Norton, & Deasy
The military needs a globe-spanning network to counter threats that no single theater command can cope with. That takes more than just technology.
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America must adopt a Sixth Domain of warfare doctrine
The Sixth Domain is not defined by geography. It’s a new kind of conflict in which autonomy and networked systems allow thousand-dollar consumer electronics to destroy multi-million-dollar conventional weapons systems.
Army Secretary Says Talent Reform Is Top Priority For 2020
Three major lines of effort will converge circa 2024, when a new breed of troops will man new kinds of combat units equipped with new technologies: talent & training, concepts & units, and money & modernization.
Mattis’s Infantry Task Force: Righting ‘A Generational Wrong’
Retired Maj. Gen. Bob Scales is the former commandant of the Army War College, a Vietnam veteran (and recipient of the Silver Star for valor) turned military historian and futurist. He’s also one of the fathers of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’s Close Combat Lethality Task Force to reform the infantry. In this op-ed, Scales goes […]
European Navies: Stepping Back Into the Game At Euronaval
Two years have passed since Le Bourget hosted the last Euronaval show, two years during which the maritime world has become increasingly multipolar. For example, just in the submarine business, more than 40 countries are nowadays involved. In the meantime, Russia added 28 new ships to its fleet in 2018 alone, while China, with a […]
Show Me The Battle: Cyber Command Needs Data Fusion, Training Sims & C2
Until cyber operators can both train realistically and see the their digital battlespace as clearly as traditional commanders see physical battlespace, they'll be hard-pressed to defend everyone else's systems.