Defense
In A Time Of Rising Nationalism, Boeing Becomes The Model Of What An American Company Should Be (From Forbes) In the three months since Donald Trump was elected president, no corporate executive has interacted more with him than Boeing Chairman & CEO Dennis Muilenburg. Trump apparently has concluded that the nation's biggest exporter is a model for how he ...
Why Trump Needs to Deploy Missile Defenses to Counter North Korea and Iran (from The National Interest) The efforts by North Korea and Iran to develop ballistic missiles capable of targeting not only its regional adversaries but the U.S. homeland are intensifying. Two days ago, it directly challenged the new U.S. Administration and the international comm ...
Pentagon Wants To Subsidize A Foreign Company So It Can Service U.S. Spy Satellites (From Forbes) The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has hatched a plan for servicing satellites in orbit that seems distinctly out of sync with the priorities of the Trump administration. The project is called "Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites ...
Army Warns Congress Its Budget Behavior Will Get Soldiers Killed (From Forbes) Congress hasn't managed to complete a federal budget in time for the beginning of the new fiscal year since 1997. The partisan dysfunction that has discredited Capitol Hill in the eyes of many voters is so serious that it threatens to get soldiers kil ...
Will It Take A Calamity For The Navy To Fix Its Obsolete Helicopter Training Program? The Navy’s program to train helicopter pilots stands on the precipice of a major technical or human calamity. Because it is operating obsolescent, 35-year-old TH-57 helicopters that are increasingly difficult to maintain, it is only a matter of time be ...
NASA Space Launch System Opens Pathway To Mars — And Thousands Of Jobs On Earth (From Forbes) The companies that supply NASA's project to one day send astronauts to Mars will be holding their annual conference in the nation's capital next week. Collectively, they and their federal customer employ over 10,000 workers on the project, the ...
Four Reasons President Trump Could Send U.S. Astronauts To Mars (From Forbes) President Trump hasn't named his nominee to run NASA yet, but that agency could end up providing his presidency with its most memorable legacy. Trump has been meeting with SpaceX founder Elon Musk, one of the nation's foremost proponents of establishi ...
How The Mattis Campaign Plan For Fixing America’s Military Will Transform The U.S. Army (From Forbes) Secretary of Defense James Mattis has issued a campaign plan for rebuilding the U.S. military that could be the best thing that has happened to America's Army since the Reagan years. The plan begins by fixing near-term shortfalls in readiness, but ult ...
Trump Defense Team Inherits Bad Ideas About Air Power From The Obama Years (From Forbes) After eight years of capped budgets and deferred modernization under President Obama, the Air Force's vision of the future has become confused. Two items it is pursuing seem especially ill-conceived. First, there is the plan for a "light fighter" tha ...
Mattis Review Of F-35 Fighter Likely To Yield Lower Price, Faster Production (from Forbes) Secretary of Defense James Mattis has directed his deputy to conduct a review of the F-35 fighter program with an eye to reducing costs while keeping requirements intact. This will not be hard to accomplish. If the program simply stays on its current ...