The Army is contributing Long-Range Army Fires, troops on the ground, and Sentinel radar. The Navy is bringing F-35Cs and a destroyer; and the Air Force will bring F-22 and F-35 fighter jets.
By Theresa HitchensA major overhaul is coming in software for missile warning
Space Systems Command’s FORGE program is the first, major missile-warning software modernization effort in 20 years.
The Navy is pushing full-speed ahead, and its acquisition chief said the service is prepared to make other programs pay to keep on track.
By Paul McLeary
Reformers like Air Force acquisitions chief Will Roper have seized on Other Transactions Authority contracts as a way to bypass bureaucracy and jumpstart innovation.
By Colin Clark
On Saturday night, as the White House and Pentagon mulled Richard Spencer’s fate, he chatted with reporters and enjoyed the end of a security conference in Halifax. Things were about to change.
By Paul McLeary
Ambassador to Norway Ken Braithwaite will be nominated as the new Secretary of the Navy, according to the Pentagon, breaking a pattern where President Trump elevates a deputy and keeps him as acting instead of nominating someone new.
By Paul McLeary
The Chinese navy is putting more ships to sea. Both China and Russia continue to churn out new generations of long-range weapons. The US Navy has taken notice and decided it must act.
By Paul McLeary
As Washington continues to push NATO to invest more in modernization and become more closely integrated, a 13-ship task force showed that change is possible.
By Paul McLeary
A new approach to speed, scale and efficiency for the industrial base
Radars, EW, EO/IR, space imagery, and microelectronics are brought under one roof for a streamlined approach to common people and factories.
The damage was contained, the Navy says, but the incident raises new concerns as the service struggles with a repair backlog.
By Paul McLeary
The armed services agree they need to work together better — they just don’t agree on how. Now the Joint Staff is taking a hand.
By Theresa Hitchens
Today, “we have Navy-only systems,” said Vice Adm. Lewis, “which is really frustrating” — in fact, it’s “asinine.”
By Theresa Hitchens
In an exclusive statement, the ambitious USMC Commandant says the exercises are shock testing “what we will expect to see in a realistic fight where large forces are spread out over great distances.”
By Paul McLeary
“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 long road the F-35 took to finally being ready to deploy has forced the Navy’s new $13 billion carrier class to leave the plane behind — for now at least.
By Paul McLeary
Training for electronic warfare threats is too easy, leaving troops dangerously unready for great power conflict. Scenarios are so unrealistic that one officer called them “garbage.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
