“We need some coherency around what we’re actually doing on the public policy front, and we need some more technical coordination … so we could at least be at the stage where we’re still on the field, versus sitting on the sidelines trying to figure out how to catch up,” said Brookings fellow Nicol Turner Lee.
By Theresa HitchensROC-X – The solution to organic precision strike capabilities
At AUSA Global Force 2024, IAI will present integrated, AI-driven combat systems – both manned and unmanned – that are opening new opportunities on the battlefield.
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
Rep. Thornberry, the senior Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, said the White House move to repurpose military procurement money “is in violation of the separation of powers within the Constitution… and I believe that it requires Congress to take action.”
By Paul McLeary
Former intelligence officials told us they were worried about London’s decision to allow the Chinese giant’s technology on parts of its new 5G network. A vulnerability anywhere in the system, they argue, threatens security everywhere.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“I suppose it is possible it could happen,” CSIS’s Todd Harrison says of a one-year CR for DoD, “but it never has happened and it is unlikely it ever will.”
By Theresa Hitchens
The Texas Republican, who supported Pentagon reform, bigger budgets, and Trump’s border wall, is joining several other conservatives is walking away from Capitol Hill.
By Paul McLeary
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.
Hell hath no fury like a lawmaker betrayed. This week, the House will take up the crucial National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), Congress’ primary instrument to oversee the U.S. military. Though the NDAA has passed for 58 straight years, partisan political choices threaten to end that streak. The Democratic House passed out of…
By Rick Berger
As the three most powerful civilians in the Army Department, Esper, McCarthy, and Jette have formed by all accounts a tight-knit and effective team. That’s particularly remarkable because they’ve had abundant opportunities for conflict as they turned the Army bureaucracy upside down.
By Paul McLeary
“My integrity and belief in SCO’s mission is more important to me than my friendship over many years with Mike (Griffin).”
By Colin Clark
Despite Democratic chairman Adam Smith’s best efforts, the defense budget is likely to creep back up to the full $750 billion the administration asked for.
By Paul McLeary
Democrats and Republicans sparred all night over nukes in the 2020 defense policy bill, but the Democrats had the votes. For now.
By Paul McLeary
The top HASC Republican outlines some of the amendments he plans to add to the HASC 2020 defense policy bill, previewing coming debates with the Senate.
By Paul McLeary
BOSTON: “It’s like running through a briar patch naked,” Will Roper said of trying to bring start-up companies into the service’s contracting model to keep apace of commercial innovation. “You have to be willing to bleed a little bit,” Roper, the Air Force’s top acquisition official told me in an interview last Thursday, after watching 10 newborn…
By Theresa Hitchens
Mac Thornberry, the top Republican on the largest committee in Congress, has long pressed for changes his colleagues didn’t yet see as necessary. I’ve covered him for a long, long time and remember when he pressed hard with then-Sen. Dan Coats to make the services fight and train much more closely together. Their vision resulted…
By Rep. Mac Thornberry