Defense
GM’s Technology Revolution: Why The Pentagon Should Put Its Next Innovation Center In Detroit (From Forbes) The Pentagon is pressing hard to foster greater commercial-military collaboration in innovating, but it needs to look beyond the narrow confines of Silicon Valley and Boston. One place worth visiting is General Motors headquarters in Detroit, where Am ...
Putin Strategy Fails To Stop Deployment Of Missile Defenses In Europe Today marks the first significant setback for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s assault on Europe. For more than two years, Russia has been on the march in Europe and elsewhere, undermining the political and economic systems of neighboring countries, ...
The U.S. Army Needs To Say “No Mas” To WAS Wide Area Security (WAS), what used to be called stability operations, is supposed to be one of the U.S. Army’s core competencies. It involves much more than providing security for rear areas or occupying enemy territory during the course of hostilitie ...
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 ...