"It's indefensible and it shows just a total disregard by the administration and the secretary of defense for this mission area,” Rep. Don Bacon, R-NE, told Breaking Defense.
Despite good performance during the quarter, Boeing announced a new $149 million loss on the KC-46 tanker due to ripple effects on the commercial 777X jet program.
The network transport architecture for NGC2 could be a hybrid approach that combines high assurance communications with 5G, WiFi, and multi-orbit satellites.
Established in 2021, the HASC subcommittee oversees an array of new technologies and related strategies that inform modern warfare, including both offensive and defensive cyber-related areas.
Reps. Don Bacon and Richard McCormick shared concerns over the SOCOM-like model in today's hearing.
In an exclusive op-ed, Rep. Don Bacon says Congress, industry and the executive branch need to stop hiding behind the word "innovation" and start actually producing systems.
Key members of the defense committees in both the House and Senate are locked in races that are still undecided.
Reducing cognitive overload on warfighters while improving “time to trust” for autonomous systems is a matter of design.
The US military is rebuilding its ability to protect its radios, sensors and radars while jamming those of its adversaries. But we're still probably second or third in the world.
"We had the dominant electronic warfare capability in the world and we let it atrophy. Now we’re behind," general turned congressman Don Bacon told me. "I want us to be dominant again. I don’t want us to be second or third best after Russia and China."
WASHINGTON: The generals and admirals in charge of equipping and fielding the nation’s special operations forces are about to get some help in the form of an 11 percent budget increase. Just as the Trump administration has pledged to pump billions more into the defense budget, the Special Operations Command will also add about 1,700 […]
WASHINGTON: The US military is “not prepared” to conduct radio and radar jamming against high-end adversaries, a veteran electronic warfare officer now in Congress says. We have made major progress jamming terrorist communications in Afghanistan and Iraq, says Rep. Don Bacon, a retired one-star general who recently visited both countries. But even against such low-tech foes, […]
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
WASHINGTON: After two decades of decline, American electronic warfare is recovering, but not fast enough, says general-turned-congressman Rep. Don Bacon. What the military needs to do, Bacon said is to elevate the electromagnetic spectrum to an official domain of warfare — alongside land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace — and appoint general officers as EW […]