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The fleet of ships from across the Asia-Pacific region that has assembled for 2018's Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercises have a familiar... Read More
The Pentagon is asking Congress to shift $4.7 billion in previously approved spending for this year, with some of the funds going to provide... Read More
A new generation of GPS satellites is set to launch into orbit later this year. As with other national security missions, a roughly... Read More
The 2018 NATO summit in Brussels met the expectations of many observers who were concerned that President... Read More
U.S. President Donald Trump has approved the State Department's implementation plan for the administration's “Buy American” push... Read More
A new procurement rule took effect Monday barring the Russian anti-virus company Kaspersky Lab or any of its partners or distributors from... Read More
The Pentagon is making a massive push to accelerate the application of artificial intelligence to ships, tanks, aircraft, drones, weapons and... Read More
The Pentagon could stop awarding contracts to companies whose weapons are deemed vulnerable to cyber attacks, according to... Read More
The United Kingdom has announced the country's first entirely British fighter in decades. The new Tempest fighter project will primarily... Read More
USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) is operating in the North Atlantic over the old stomping grounds of the Soviet submarine force, in the... Read More
Speaking during Farnborough International Air Show, Volker Paltzo said:“Eurofighter Typhoon is the benchmark for European collaboration... Read More
America's nuclear deterrent is aging, with a half-dozen replacement programs on the horizon. But the young men and women who serve, Gen. John... Read More
RAF FAIRFORD, England -- Building up airfields so that U.S. bombers, fighters and other aircraft can land safely on Europe's eastern front... Read More
Today, the only defensive system the U.S. has that can intercept long-range ballistic missiles is the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD)... Read More
FARNBOROUGH, UNITED KINGDOM — Lockheed Martin may seek to recompete contracts for components of the F-35 joint strike fighter as it... Read More
The Pentagon is making a massive push to accelerate the application of artificial intelligence to ships, tanks, aircraft, drones, weapons and... Read More
Employing the military to supplement civil law enforcement can be risky.Consider the following vignette. A mobilized National Guard squad... Read More
After taking over a decade to reach one million flight hours by 2011, the Air Force's MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper reached two million... Read More
The 2017 United States National Security Strategy (NSS) “is a strategy of principled realism that is guided by outcomes, not... Read More
Artificial intelligence isn't sexy. I would know. In 2017, I led data creation and quality control for xView, one of the largest... Read More
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Thousands of jobs at Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals across the country remain vacant because VA leaders contend they can't find... Read More
He had just completed a stint in the Netherlands, where he worked with NATO officers on the Airborne Warning and Control electronic... Read More
At NATO's summit, the heads of state will discuss security in and around the Black Sea.No subject could be timelier for Russian threats and... Read More
It is no secret that U.S. President Donald Trump has an instinctive animus against the European Union and NATO. He supported the Brexit vote... Read More
The United States could learn a thing or two about strategy from none other than King George III. To wit: Interests are many, resources... Read More
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In May 2017, Graham Allison wrote Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). This book... Read More
The success of OCX in its first operational iteration is a true breakthrough, and not just because it delivers greater resilience to a... Read More
The future of naval power lies in the Asia-Pacific, not Europe.Japan, China, the United States, and South Korea will remain among the world's... Read More
The penultimate section of this Chinese article turns to the “combat” [作战] employment of HN-1 and this family of new UUVs.... Read More
The Navy's Littoral Combat Ship is now armed with an emerging ship defense soft-kill countermeasure able to identify, track and destroy... Read More
China, under the leadership of Xi Jinping, is attempting to take the principles of four great Western strategic theorists and turn them on... Read More
MYKOLAIV REGION, Ukraine — The U.S. Marines were firing at a fictional enemy, but the Ukrainian marines firing by their side during the... Read More
Michael Hayduk, chief of the computing and communications division at the Air Force Research Laboratory says quantum technology will be... Read More
SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that talks on Sunday between U.S. and North Korean officials to discuss... Read More
The meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Helsinki this week comes on the heels of a turbulent NATO summit that saw... Read More
Policymakers and technology experts said without a broad national strategy for driving artificial intelligence forward,... Read More
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Several hundred recruits are learning the true meaning of “hurry up and wait” this month, as they spend a couple extra... Read More
The Pentagon and Lockheed Martin have reached a handshake deal for the eleventh batch of F-35 joint strike fighters, the Pentagon's top... Read More
Murmurs of kidnappings for ransom hung in the air, and shootings and bombings continued just outside the city. Two women walked along the... Read More
The recent revolt by Google engineers against working with the Pentagon's Project Maven program caught many in Washington by... Read More
It's too early to tell if training or other changes must be made in light of an insider attack in Afghanistan that killed one American... Read More
In the wake of the Iraq “surge” from 2006 to 2008, it looked like the United States had cracked the code for defeating... Read More
As the NATO summit comes to an end, the focus turns to President Trump's upcoming meeting with Vladimir Putin. Congress has... Read More
A new generation of GPS satellites is set to launch into orbit later this year. As with other national security missions, a roughly 200-foot-tall rocket will blast the massive satellite to space, fulfilling a contract worth more than $80 million.But as nations develop technology to disable or shoot down satellites, the U.S. military has started to look at ways to rapidly and cheaply launch smaller Read More
The Pentagon could stop awarding contracts to companies whose weapons are deemed vulnerable to cyber attacks, according to senior U.S. Defense Department officials.Today, companies are responsible for assessing whether their own products meet DoD cybersecurity standards.“Because of a couple recent events, we realized that that is not good enough,” Kevin Fahey, the assistant secretary of de Read More
