US Warns Putting China On Law Of The Sea Panel Like ‘Hiring An Arsonist’
In rejecting Chinese claims to the South China Sea, the Trump administration is in the opening throes of a rhetorical offensive, promising more concrete moves
HASC Wants Answers On Pacific Fuel & Europe HQ
The HASC readiness subcommittee also wants to create a comprehensive quadrennial review of what it’ll really take to supply and sustain the global force.
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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.
US Warship Fries Drone With Powerful New Laser
In a first, the USS Portland took down a target drone with a new solid state laser this week, the first step in the Navy’s quest to get the powerful weapon on more ships in the future.
Army Rebuilds Artillery Arm For Large-Scale War
The service’s new AimPoint plan builds very different forces for Europe and the Pacific – but new high-level artillery HQs are central to both.
COVID-19 Spreads To USS Nimitz; DoD Must ‘Operate In A COVID Environment’
"I think it is not a good idea to think that the [Theodore Roosevelt] is a one of a kind issue," vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Hyten said. "To think that it will never happen again, is not a good way to plan."
Marine Commandant: Less A Second Land Army, More Light Amphib Ships
"You'll see some significant changes” in the Navy report “regarding the portion of the fleet that supports maneuver of Marines and the expeditionary elements of that," Gen. David Berger says.
Modernizing defense enterprise IT without disrupting the mission
Government can’t stop to update systems, so modernization has to happen without interruptions.
Indo-Pacom Presses All Domain Ops; Sends Plan To Hill Soon
"For its backbone," Adm. Davidson said, "we need a joint -- joint -- network of training ranges capable of meeting the exercise, experimentation, and innovation objectives of the new warfighting concept."
Multi-Domain Task Forces Top Army’s $7B Unfunded List
The Army wants $985 million for modernization, from Apache gunships and 8x8 Strykers to safety improvements at ammunition plants. We have the list.
Army Adding New Arms Stockpile In Europe: Gen. Perna
To deter Russia and China, the Army is building new prepositioned equipment sets for Europe and studying new stockpiles for the Pacific.
Infinite Games & War By Other Means: Ryan McCarthy
The Army Secretary is optimistic the service can balance its expensive modernization objectives at the same time it deters conflict with China.
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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.
No Troops Leaving South Korea or Japan, Indo-Pacific Commander Says
Adm. Davidson pushed back against reports that the US might pull a brigade out of South Korea amid stalemated burden-sharing talks.
Commandant: Marines ‘Not Optimized For Great Power Competition’
The new commandant says the Corps has to start “unshackling ourselves from previous notions of what war looks like and reimagining how Marines will train, how we will operate, and how we will fight.”
Marines Kick Off A Year Of Wargames To Help Build New Force
“We’ve got to wrestle with ship mix and their capacity; there’s a balancing act.”
Major War Game To Jolt 4 Services, Force Decisions
In conflicts of the future the Pentagon will need some radically new thinking.