The list is an impressive marker of the breadth of topics we cover as we chronicle the strategy, policy and politics that decide the weapons America and its allies buy, and how we use them.
By Colin ClarkThe Army wants a wheeled howitzer that can keep up with its Stryker units, so the Israeli firm is shipping its 8×8 ATMOS gun to Yuma, where it’ll fire “hundreds of rounds.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.“I’ve watched it in action and its really quite impressive,” says Air Force Chief Scientist Richard Joseph.
By Theresa Hitchens“There’s going to be winners and losers,” Gen. Ed Daly told us. “[But] this transition… is not code for ‘reducing the workforce.’”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.In future wars, AI, networks, and analytics won’t just help target precision weapons: They can also liberate combat units from long and vulnerable supply lines. But to make that work, AMC commander Gen. Ed Daly told us, frontline troops need a constant flow of data.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.“We expect adversary actions directed against the homeland,” from cyber attacks to foreign-fomented protests, the new Army Installations Strategy warns. Bases in the US are no longer out of adversaries’ reach – so how do you defend them?
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.Army Contracting Command still accounts for 45 percent of all DoD Other Transaction Authority obligations, but the Air Force and, belatedly, the Navy are starting to catch up.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.“There really is former-general-officer fatigue, bordering on apprehension, on the Hill – on both sides of the aisle,” a former Senate staffer says. “Trump really burned out a lot of folks.”
By Paul McLearyArtificial intelligence developed to hunt terrorists can help track Russian and Chinese targets as well – especially amidst murky, chaotic conflicts in the “grey zone” between peace and open war.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.“Look, I’m an Army guy,” Milley said. “And I love the Army…but the fundamental defense of the United States and the ability to project power forward will always be for America naval and air and space power.”
By Paul McLeary
The Pentagon remains stuck in the “success” of the 1990s and Desert Storm, which hinders its ability to take advantage of revolutions in smartphone, cloud computing and social media technologies.
By Mackenzie Eaglen and John Ferrari