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The Defense Department is shaping the joint all-domain environment by tying sensors to shooters in exercises like Northern Edge 21 and Project Convergence.
By Barry RosenbergModernizing military simulation with open systems architecture
Best-of-breed common models and architecture enable virtual training and testing with the same data in a cyber-resilient posture.
The document outlines an evolving effort to stand up a series of small, agile units tasked with air defense, anti-ship and submarine warfare, and seizing, holding and resupplying ad hoc bases to support an island-hopping campaign in the Pacific.
By Paul McLeary
“The Chinese see competition as a whole of government effort [and] they’re actually pretty good at it,” the Army Futures Command Chief told us. “We’re way out of practice.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“There’s a need in the near-term to defend against all of those [Chinese missile] threats from a 360-degree standpoint, and if the answer is Aegis, I’m ready to support it,” the presumptive head of Indo-PACOM told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
By Paul McLeary
Rep. Joe Courtney’s comments on on the heels of other lawmakers and military officials pushing for the Navy to get a larger slice of the 2022 defense budget
By Paul McLeary
The emerging Indo-Pacific Warfighting Concept has been drafted, but still has “a ways to go as far as working through the Department of Defense,” says INDOPACOM’s head of requirements, George Ka’iliwai.
By Theresa Hitchens
“China’s proven it will not self-limit in competition, so we cannot expect them to self-limit in conflict,” said Maj. Gen. Richard Ross Coffman, who heads armored vehicle modernization at Army Futures Command. “We’ve got to be able to fight no matter where we are.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Future inevitability of quantum computers is a security problem today
‘Store Now, Decrypt Later’ attacks must be thwarted now with Zero Trust cybersecurity.
The report, delivered to Capitol Hill on Monday, sketches out the ask for the 2022 budget and in the years out to 2027, envisioning a long-range plan that Indo-Pacom commander Adm. Phil Davidson first introduced last year.
By Paul McLeary
Upcoming Pacific Defender wargames will held showcase Army’s investments in long-range missiles, missile defense, logistics, and information warfare, said Gen. James McConville, the Army Chief of Staff.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
President Trump goes after SASC Chairman and Hill ally Jim Inhofe in a tweet, setting up a fight over the defense bill in the waning days of his administration
By Paul McLeary
Ousted SecDef Esper liked the idea, but Navy Sec. Braithwaite – with just two months left in office — hasn’t spoken about it with the new Acting Secretary before rolling the idea out today.
By Paul McLeary By 2026, Adm. Philip Davidson said, the US will need additional air and missile defenses on Guam to counter a growing Chinese threat.
By Paul McLeary
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.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“We have widespread interest across DoD and other US Government Departments right now due to COVID,” John Woodruff, program manager for deviceONE at Air Force Research Laboratory, explained in an email to Breaking D.
By Theresa Hitchens
