Defense

The European Reassurance Initiative Is A Smart Response to Urgent Threats As security threats increase in Europe, NATO must show it stands behind each of its members. President Barack Obama quadrupled funding for the European Reassurance Initiative (ERI) from almost $800 million in 2016 to $3.4 billion in the White House’s f ...
DoD Just Can’t Resist Meddling In Private Companies’ IR&D The Department of Defense is desperate for innovative solutions to extremely challenging problems. Senior Pentagon leaders have repeatedly warned that the United States is losing its long-held advantage in critical technologies not only to prospective ...
Boeing Board Taps Leanne Caret To Lead $30 Billion Defense And Space Business (From Forbes) The Boeing Company announced after markets closed on February 24 that Leanne Caret, 49, would succeed Chris Chadwick as head of its sprawling defense and space business, which contributes nearly a third of corporate revenues.  Caret has been a rising s ...
Lockheed Martin Streamlines Space Unit To Cut Costs, Bolster Growth (From Forbes) Lockheed Martin's Space Systems Company is the leading private-sector repository of space science and technology in the world.  That has positioned it nicely in the military and civil segments of the space business, but if it is going to grow then it n ...
The Army Needs To Jump Start Deployment Of Active Protection Capabilities The prospect of large-scale, high-intensity conflict, specifically between the United States and a major regional power in the near future has become too serious to ignore. As the new Army Chief of Staff, General Mark Milley, observed in testimony befo ...
Standoff Nukes Aren’t Just A “Nice To Have” Increasing Russian aggression coupled with China’s modernization of nuclear missiles and North Korea’s ambitions to develop and field advanced strategic weapons means nuclear arms are more relevant today than they were a decade ago. While it is critica ...
Raytheon To Join Race For $10B T-X Trainer Program, Competing Against Boeing, Lockheed, Northrop (From Forbes) Defense electronics powerhouse Raytheon is expected to announce Monday it is entering the race to develop the Air Force's T-X training system, a $10 billion program that will deliver at least 350 jets to replace aging T-38 trainers.  Raytheon will team ...
New ICBMs: Necessary to Secure the American Strategic Deterrent Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) that make up one part of the American nuclear deterrent remain highly relevant to security. The ICBM force provides many benefits that other strategic systems do not: they shorten the time neede ...
Administration Sends The Army To Russia’s Border, But Russian Rocket Engines To The Air Force The Obama Administration’s critics have long accused it of a penchant for sending mixed messages to friends and adversaries alike. There was the now-infamous Syrian red line, the promise that Iran would never be permitted to acquire a nuclear weapon an ...
Boeing Protest Rejected, But Problems Just Beginning For U.S. Air Force’s Next Stealthy Bomber (From Forbes) The Air Force desperately needs a new bomber, but the way it has gone about selecting a company to develop one, it could be a long time before Cold War bombers retire.  Even though the Government Accountability Office ruled February 16 that the award t ...
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