The Navy’s deal with the city to generate energy credits is a “first-of-it-kind” agreement between San Diego Port and a Pentagon agency.
By Justin KatzNew Army mounted system won’t play favorites when it comes to C5ISR, EW and A-PNT
The CMOSS Mounted Form Factor will facilitate tech insertion for new capabilities while co-existing with the Mounted Family of Computer Systems.
“But I think it’s going to be the led by the new Chief [Digital] and AI Officer, Craig Martell, who comes to us from industry and has a very good technical background,” Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said. “Hopefully he’ll be able to help pull it together. But there’s a definite need to do that.”
By Jaspreet Gill
“We are actively negotiating right now — the Army is — for Stinger and related components, and that’s ongoing,” said Bill LaPlante, the Pentagon’s top acquisition official, in wake of US sending thousands of weapons to Ukraine.
By Valerie Insinna
Future wars may force the services to become more distributed and less reliant on major installations where power sources are available, which in turn “put[s] a premium on capabilities with longer range, time on station, endurance and the ability to adapt to evolving energy needs and technology.”
By Valerie Insinna
“The services today are working more what I call ‘service all domain command and control’ — and don’t blame me for the acronym, it sounds like SADC2,” said Scott Stapp, CTO of Northrop Grumman Corp.
By Theresa Hitchens
“My view isn’t like, I’m going to magically unlock special secret approaches that haven’t been touched before,” Deputy Defense Secretary Kath Hicks said Wednesday. “I think it’s more about how you start to shift the incentives”
By Valerie Insinna
Home to top secret projects, Air Force’s Plant 42 is nirvana for aviation enthusiasts, who apparently sometimes take their interest too far.
By Valerie Insinna
Modernizing our supply chain is a national security imperative
Closing supply chain gaps in innovating technology will reposition the industrial base to be a strategic source of value.
“There are some very specific issues with regard to Stinger and some obsolescence issues that we have to overcome,” Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks said Tuesday. “That’s because we in the US, we’re focusing ourselves forward on new capability.”
By Valerie Insinna
“Acute is a sharper, sort of more immediate word,” said Mark Cancian, a senior adviser to the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “I think that’s a response to Ukraine, and the fact that this is not a long term challenge, it is immediate [and] happening today.”
By Valerie Insinna
The high-level meeting signaled the importance of hypersonic tech, sources said, but also bureaucratic and real-world challenges to overcome in a hurry.
By Valerie Insinna
The Defense Digital Service (DDS), the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) and the office of the Chief Data Officer (CDO) would all report up to a new individual, tentatively named the Chief Data & AI Officer.
By Aaron Mehta
“These are not ideological issues of climate versus warfighting,” Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary of defense, said Wednesday. “This is about ensuring we are resilient and capable for the warfighter of the future, and we’ll be making those investments.”
By Aaron Mehta
Two types of expert teams will help the 11 Combatant Commands make better use of data for decision-making, the deputy Defense Secretary said.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The Pentagon wants to show its investments in climate change, but the way the budget is currently structured makes that effectively impossible, says Hallie Coyne of AEI.
By Hallie Coyne