Defense
GOP Candidates Obsess Over Iran Threat, Ignore Russian Nuclear Menace (from Forbes)
If you watched the Republican presidential debate this week, you heard a lot about the danger posed by Iran's nuclear-weapons program. North Korea's efforts came in for some criticism too. But Russia's nuclear arsenal got no mention, which is a littl ...
Export Control Regulations Will Undermine DoD Effort To Engage Silicon Valley
In his most recent foray to Silicon Valley, Defense Secretary Ash Carter sought new ways of engaging innovative commercial electronics companies in his effort to create a 21st Century U.S. military. This time he offered more than just nice words. The S ...
Iran Deal Fixes Nothing
Some supporters of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), popularly known as the Iranian nuclear deal, argue that it is better to have some inspections in Iran as opposed to none. However, an agreement with Tehran should also take into account ...
Delays For Revolutionary Zumwalt Destroyer Offer Lesson For Navy’s Next Sub (From Forbes)
Integration of three Zumwalt-class destroyers at Bath Iron Works (BIW) in Maine is taking longer than expected. Part of the problem is the sheer complexity of the Zumwalt warships, and part of the problem is that the Navy canceled the program after th ...
Military Competition In The Arctic Heats Up As Region Warms
With all the military activities going on in Eastern Europe, the South China Sea, the Korean peninsula, Sinai, Northern Nigeria, Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen, it may have slipped most people’s notice that yet another region is rapidly becoming a zone o ...
Securing DoD Networks for the 21st Century
Click here to download the full report as PDF. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Some forty years ago, the U.S. Armed Forces began a revolution in military affairs based largely on the exploitation of information. A series of advances in position location, accurate mu ...
Army Tech Spending Collapses As Enemies Close Gap (From Forbes)
The U.S. Army has largely ceased investing in new warfighting technology. In fact, the service actually said that in its fiscal 2016 budget briefing: "The Army has no major new modernization programs until the next decade." Unfortunately, the same ca ...
In Praise Of Concurrency
Concurrency is the practice in defense procurement where phases in the acquisition process are conducted in an overlapping fashion rather than sequentially. Procurement of a system or platform is initiated before the entire research, development, test ...
Why Sen. McCain Is Right To Try To Put The Military Services In Charge Of Buying Weapons (From Forbes)
The House and Senate Armed Services Committees are expected to approve a National Defense Authorization Act this month that would restore weapons-purchasing authority to the military services. That authority has been eroded by 30 years of acquisition ...
Finding And Defeating Drones
They are everywhere and they are becoming increasingly dangerous. Just yesterday, an out of control drone interrupted a match at the U.S. Open. On September 15, 2013 a supposed prankster landed one on the podium from which German Chancellor Angela Merk ...