Defense
Boeing At 100: What It Will Take To Survive A Second Century (From Forbes) In July, the Boeing Company will celebrate the centennial of its founding in 1916. From modest beginnings, it has grown to become the biggest aerospace company in the world. So many assume it will continue dominating global markets for the foreseeabl ...
National Guard-Public Utility Collaboration: One Approach to Improving Grid Security The American people and critical stakeholders are increasingly aware that the nation’s electric power grid is vulnerable to a variety of attacks. Much attention has been focused on the threat of an electromagnetic pulse attack that could destroy much o ...
The Future Is Growing Brighter For U.S. Combat Vehicles Ground combat is back and with its return an urgent need for the U.S. Army and Marine Corps to modernize its fleets of ground combat vehicles. We are talking about tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and their variants, self-propelled artillery and speci ...
Why America Needs the Lethal Long-Range Standoff Cruise Missile (From The National Interest) Some policymakers are questioning the Air Force’s next-generation air-launched cruise missiles, called Long-Range Standoff weapons, which are crucial to sustaining the deterrent credibility of the manned bomber fleet. These missiles are hard to detect ...
Chaos in Libya: The Rising ISIS Threat to Europe (From The National Interest) The Islamic State, also known as ISIS, poses a threat to European security as demonstrated by the terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels. In the past year, the terrorist group has increased its presence in Libya with 5,000 to 6,500 fighters there and ...
Overstretched U.S. Army Gets Only Two Days Worth Of Federal Spending In 2017 For New Weapons (From Forbes) Demands on the U.S. Army in Europe, the Middle East and the Pacific are rising, but its budget is not. Forced to focus on personnel and readiness, the service cannot afford the kind of weapons modernization effort that would enable it to keep pace wit ...
Raytheon Wins Prove Value Of Patient Investments In Enabling Technologies Last week, Raytheon was awarded a $1 billion contract by the U.S. Navy to continue its work on Increment 1 of the Next Generation Jammer (NGJ). This continued what has been an impressive winning streak for the company on major acquisition programs. In ...
Why We Still Need Those Nuclear Missile Silos (From Breaking Defense) Some anti-nuclear groups suggest eliminating intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) in part to save money on upcoming nuclear modernization, but getting rid of ICBMs would be a serious mistake. Of the three components of the triad, the ICBM force ...
Senate Banking Committee Halt On Ex-Im Nominee Costing U.S. $50 Million In Exports Every Day (from Forbes) Senate Banking Committee chairman Richard Shelby is blocking confirmation of a nominee to the board of the Export-Import Bank. Without that member, the board lacks authority to back transactions requiring more than $10 million in credit. So even thou ...
Radar Planes: Why Does The Air Force Need A Dozen Years To Buy 17 Off-the-Shelf Aircraft? (From Forbes) The U.S. Air Force operates a small fleet of radar planes that can track moving ground targets day or night, rain or shine. Called JSTARS planes, they have made it possible for coalition fighters to precisely target enemy units in the fog of war witho ...