Defense
The Next Administration Could Deploy A Robust Missile Defense Of The Homeland
Facing a growing threat from long-range North Korean missiles, possibly armed with nuclear warheads, and desirous of garnering strategic advantage after its withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, the George W. Bush Administration decided on ...
We Have To Stop Letting The Testers Run The Asylum
Dr. J. Michael Gilmore, head of the Pentagon’s Directorate of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) reminds me of a radiologist I once consulted. The eminent physician pointed out suspicious dark and light spots on various internal organs. He rec ...
Russian Rockets Put Pentagon Space Plans In Decaying Orbit On Capitol Hill (From Forbes)
America's military depends heavily on satellites for things like secure communications and warning of missile attacks, but U.S. access to space is looking less and less assured. United Launch Alliance, the Boeing-Lockheed Martin joint venture that has ...
National Commission on the Future of the Army Produces Politically Correct Report
The National Commission on the Future of the Army (NCFA) missed the opportunity of a generation to help place that Service on a sound strategic, structural and budgetary footing. Instead, the NCFA report is a politically correct document that focused m ...
Gene Wars: Targeted Mutations Will Spawn Unique Dangers, And Soon (From Forbes)
Scientists have discovered a cheap and easy way of editing the genes of any living organism. Depending on how the modifications are made, they might permanently alter the genetic endowment of later generations. A related development speeds the transm ...
The U.S. Army Needs to Field an Active Protection System Now
Heavily involved in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Army spent the last decade ramping up the force protection for its soldiers. It did so by investing in an array of technologies such as vehicle-borne and man portable Improvised Explosive Device jammers, en ...
New Afghan Air Force Finally Taking Flight
If there is one virtue the U.S. national security establishment needs to embrace in its war against Islamic extremism, it is patience. More than fourteen years in Afghanistan and almost thirteen in Iraq have demonstrated how difficult it is to accompl ...
Leidos-Lockheed IT Merger Fashions Federal Services Powerhouse (From Forbes)
Leidos disclosed on Tuesday that it is merging with most of Lockheed Martin's IT unit in a $5 billion deal that will produce a federal services powerhouse. The transaction will contribute significantly to the rationalization of the defense sector, sin ...
U.S. Air Dominance Rests On A Handful Of World Class Test And Training Facilities
Click here to watch a video about the Southwest Defense Complex. The United States today is the world’s dominant air power. It achieved this position of advantage, in part, by developing and acquiring many of the world’s best military aircraft, weapons ...
Gamechanger: How Pratt & Whitney Transformed Itself To Lead A Revolution In Jet Propulsion (From Forbes)
Airbus disclosed on January 20 that it has delivered the first aircraft in its A320neo family of narrow body jetliners to Lufthansa. The "neo" designation stands for "new engine option," and in the case of the Lufthansa planes that means a revolutiona ...