We live in the world Ash Carter saw coming
As Secretary of Defense, Carter set the military on its current course: containing Russia and China with high-tech investments in AI, networks, and long-range weapons.
Idaho National Labs to build Pentagon’s mobile ‘nuclear microreactor’
The Strategic Capabilities Office is considering engineering designs by BWXT Advanced Technologies, LLC, and X-energy, LLC. One design will be selected and announced this spring.
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GPS: Still the gold standard in global navigation
The GPS network continues to prove its unmatched reliability, and it’s only getting stronger.
SCO, Navy Eye More Unmanned Overlord Demonstrations
Overlord is the Pentagon's somewhat secretive USV development program to inform the technology and capabilities that will one day be aboard most unmanned Navy ships and subs.
Navy’s New Unmanned Plan Short on Specifics, But Big On Ambition
"There is an underlying commitment to move as fast as you can... because the pacing threat is constantly moving and accelerating," said Lt. Gen. Eric Smith, commander of Marine Corps Combat Development Command.
Air Force Leaders Exits ‘Business As Usual, Experts Say; Roper Rumors
Outgoing AF acquisition head Will Roper is rumored "to be in the mix" to take DoD acquisition czar Ellen Lord's place, along with CSIS's Andrew Hunter.
SAC Kills AF Push For Funding Flexibility; Space Force Likely Hit
"I think Space Force and its advocates hoped that they'd have a radically new approach to budgeting and acquisition," CSIS's Mark Cancian says, but Congress is unlikely to agree.
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Next-generation C2 won’t be next-gen without the network transport
The network transport architecture for NGC2 could be a hybrid approach that combines high assurance communications with 5G, WiFi, and multi-orbit satellites.
New TRISO Nuclear Mini-Reactors Will Be Safe: Program Manager
If the Pentagon does build the mobile reactors, it will deploy them far from the front lines – and even if they’re hit, their revolutionary TRISO fuel pellets will stay intact at temperatures that can melt steel.
Lawmakers Question R&E Oversight; Pump MDA Funding
The 2020 mandates an independent study of whether MDA should be moved from R&E to the purview of Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment (A&S) Ellen Lord.
Hill To Griffin: No Moving The SCO; Shifts It to DepSecDef Norquist
Congress worried that the SCO's ability to act fast would be stymied by layers of bureaucratic approval required for any decisions. Under DARPA, it would have been bumped four reporting levels down.
US Busts INF Wall With Ballistic Missile, Puts Putin & Xi On Notice
The Pentagon's second test of a previously-banned missile went as planned today, with the US upping its game from a cruise missile to a ballistic missile.
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Turning R&D into reality to meet the challenges of the modern battlefield
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
US Fires INF-Busting Missile, First Test Since Treaty Signed
The test puts the nail in the coffin of the INF Treaty, which the US withdrew from earlier this month.
Norquist Pledges To Shakeup Budget; Sharp Eye On R & D
Presumptive Deputy Defense Secretary Norquist pledged to “revise budget review timelines and data collection standards to maximize senior leader decision-making quality and timing.”
RUMOR: Mike Griffin May Be Next Space Leader to Go
Insiders say dysfunction within Griffin's office is creating concerns within the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill.
Top DoD Official Shank Resigns; SCO Moving To DARPA
"My integrity and belief in SCO's mission is more important to me than my friendship over many years with Mike (Griffin)."