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.Gray Eagle is the low-cost, low-risk answer to Army modernization
Gray Eagle STOL and Gray Eagle 25M are the best options for Army aviation as it assesses where to move from its current inflection point.
A new Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve (RDER) will help fund the services’ experiments, as long as they work together on joint concepts.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Pending the Deputy Secretary’s approval, the Joint All Domain Command & Control strategy could receive Secretary Austin’s okay within “weeks,” said Brig. Gen. Rob Parker.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“The budget provides the resources to phase out systems and approaches optimized for an earlier era,” Kathleen Hicks said, while pumping cash into research and development of new capabilities.
By Paul McLeary
The first real-world effort “to stress test our ideas” for implementing JADC2 is coming up within the next two to three months, J6 Director Lt. Gen. Dennis Crall says.
By Theresa Hitchens
At the moment, there are no plans to reduce the Air Force’s plans to buy 1,763 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, says acting Air Force acquisition head Darlene Costello. But…
By Theresa Hitchens
The Pentagon needs to look at “seams, gaps and overlaps” as they implement the new strategy for All Domain Ops, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown says.
By Theresa Hitchens
AI can make logistics data as valuable as intelligence or operational data for mission success
Valuable intelligence insights can be gleaned from logistics or flight-test data when artificial intelligence or machine learning is applied.
The Navy is “in a good place,” CNO Adm. Mike Gilday says, “as we present that analysis to senior decision makers, and we really re-litigate, if you will, the ‘22 budget submit — which was very heavily in the Navy’s favor with respect to shipbuilding.”
By Paul McLeary
“The understanding of what deterrence is has been misinterpreted, reinterpreted, run through a ringer, chopped up and turned into a hamburger. I mean, it’s just that nobody there [at DoD] seems to understand what it means exactly,” one former government official said.
By Theresa Hitchens
“I am worried about the state of the readiness of the nuclear triad,” Deputy SecDef nominee Kath Hicks tells the Senate Armed Services Committee this morning, “and, if confirmed, that is an area I would want to get my team in place and start to look at right away.”
By Paul McLeary
Instead of focusing on the pressing need to shore up vulnerabilities in current and near-term space capabilities, says one critic, Space Force and SPACECOM are “all off trying to train for how they’re going to go fight a space war.”
By Theresa Hitchens
Austin and Secretary of State nominee Antony Blinken both praise allies, slam Trump admin. handling of alliances across the globe
By Paul McLeary With over two decades in the Pentagon under Clinton, Bush, and Obama, Kathleen Hicks brings the civilian bureaucratic experience that retired Gen. Lloyd Austin sorely lacks. Neither has the political clout of a Jim Mattis or a Bob Gates.
By Colin Clark
The Trump Administration managed to avoid starting wars or crippling NATO in fiscal year 2018, writes CSIS scholar Kathleen Hicks in this op-ed, but as we stagger into 2019, the fates of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, his National Defense Strategy, and the Pentagon budget remain alarmingly uncertain. We continue our partnership with DC’s leading defense…
By Kathleen Hicks