“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 HitchensHow to ensure readiness of next-generation defense technology: Solving the issue of massive heat.
High-performance systems generate tremendous amounts of heat that can compromise missions and make high-tech systems less effective in tactical environments. But there is a solution to this modern-age challenge.
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.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Creating an Indo-Pacific Deterrence Initiative with a $6.09 billion investment in 2021 would boost air and missile defense, fund rotational forces and prepositioned stocks, modernize joint training ranges across the region, and ramp up information and influence operations.
By Paul McLeary
Medical staff aboard aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and cruiser USS Bunker Hill are monitoring sailors who went ashore in Da Nang, Vietnam this month, while the ships are currently undergoing the mandatory 14-day quarantine all Navy vessels across the Indo-Pacom command are required to observe.
By Paul McLeary
To deter Russia and China, the Army is building new prepositioned equipment sets for Europe and studying new stockpiles for the Pacific.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Adm. Davidson pushed back against reports that the US might pull a brigade out of South Korea amid stalemated burden-sharing talks.
By Paul McLeary
Originally slated to deploy last year, the Triton drones will give US commanders in the Pacific a powerful new tool to conduct surveillance, and track Chinese moves from afar.
By Paul McLeary
ROC-X – The solution to organic precision strike capabilities
At AUSA Global Force 2024, IAI presented integrated, AI-driven combat systems – both manned and unmanned – that are opening new opportunities on the battlefield.
As President Trump pushes Beijing on trade and cyber espionage, the United States and China are on a collision course. The U.S. urgently needs a new strategy to avoid the traditional fate of rising and status quo powers: catastrophic war.
By James Kitfield
But while the skies are quiet today, US Pacific Air Forces are preparing for possible conflict: fielding new weapons like the F-35 stealth fighter and the Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM), adding more space-operations planners to theater staffs, and reemphasizing that old-fashioned initiative so junior commanders can act when an enemy cuts off their communications with higher headquarters.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
From militarized atolls in the South China Sea to a growing Chinese navy looking increasingly aggressive, the head of the Indo-Pacom command lays out his needs and concerns.
By Paul McLeary
For insights about how the US military currently views the realities of space war, it’s helpful to consider the recently concluded annual Schriever War Game.
By Colin Clark
Australia looking to protect its home waters, while sending a signal to Washington that it is one of the allies that is trying to pull its weight in defending itself.
By Paul McLeary
