Defense
America Needs A New Kill Vehicle To Defeat Incoming Nukes (From The National Interest)
The only deployed technology designed to protect the American homeland from long-range ballistic missiles today is the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system. The Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) that is carried on GMD interceptors and separates ...
McCain Panel Focus On Cost Of Secret B-21 Bomber Could Force Restructure (from Forbes)
The Senate Armed Services Committee is reviewing the Pentagon's fiscal 2017 budget request, and one area where committee chairman John McCain is sure to focus is the Air Force's B-21 bomber. The Air Force desperately needs a more survivable, maintaina ...
If Senate Votes To Ban Russian Rocket Engines, Military Access To Space Will Be At Risk
This week, the Senate Armed Services Committee will review the defense department's budget request for the fiscal year beginning October 1. One of the changes to the request committee chairman Senator John McCain is proposing is a ban on imports of th ...
Global Market For The A-29 Super Tucano Is Growing
Back in 2009, when the Department of Defense had but one problem on its mind, the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Air Force had the idea of developing a light air support (LAS) aircraft for the close air support (CAS) mission for counterinsurgency ope ...
Aging Overachiever: Black Hawk Poised To Be U.S. Army’s Workhorse Helicopter Through Mid-Century (from Forbes)
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Army's 1976 decision to select Sikorsky's UH-60 Black Hawk as its next airborne tactical transporter of troops in battle. It's a good thing the Black Hawk turned out to be versatile and reliable, because at ...
The Army Needs A New Modernization Strategy
Since the passage of the Budget Control Act of 2011 and the Defense Strategic Guidance of 2012, the Department of Defense (DoD) has been cutting the size of the military, retiring obsolescent weapons systems and reducing combat units in order to meet d ...
Southwest Defense Complex Is The Foundation Of U.S. Military Dominance (from Forbes)
There's a lot of talk this primary season about revitalizing infrastructure in America, but the focus is mainly on civil works like bridges and tunnels. Another category of infrastructure -- military infrastructure -- may be just as important to the n ...
Weak Spending On Missile Defense Undermines Administration’s Claims
The ballistic missile threat to U.S. allies and the homeland is skyrocketing. Russia is deploying a new heavy intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of carrying ten or more warheads. It also has a new ballistic missile submarine and missile. ...
At Raytheon, Workforce Diversity Isn’t Just A Core Value — It’s A Strategy For Winning (From Forbes)
When a company gets a perfect score 11 years in a row for providing a workplace where lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees feel welcome, it's a safe bet that management designated that accomplishment as a priority. So it is with military c ...
Nuclear Deterrence: Still Relevant Against Russia (From The National Interest)
Russia poses a threat that underscores the need to enhance U.S. missile defenses and modernize the nuclear arsenal. Some opponents claim that nuclear weapons are associated with outdated Cold War thinking and are irrelevant to contemporary politics, bu ...