Defense
Closing The Air Surveillance Gaps Along The U.S. Borders With all the recent discussion of illegal immigration and the need to secure this country’s borders, there has been almost no attention paid to the vulnerability of these borders to air incursions. For decades, drug gangs, human traffickers, other cri ...
Military Cybersecurity: Evolution Is The Only Business Model That Makes Sense (From Forbes) The Host Based Security System is the defense department's most widely deployed tool for combating cyber attacks against military networks. It has undergone multiple upgrades since its use was first mandated for use on both classified and unclassified ...
Southwest Defense Complex Is a Vital Contributor to U.S. Security The current debate on U.S. national security is focused on the declining defense budget, reductions in the size of the U.S. military and the erosion of U.S. technological preeminence. All these issues are important. Equally important, but virtually ign ...
Protecting The Homeland: A New Kind Of Warship Is Needed To Close The Gaps In Missile Defense Coverage (From Forbes) It is the current policy of the federal government not to deploy active defenses of the American homeland against a major nuclear attack. Eventually the policy will change as politicians and policymakers come to appreciate the fragility of offensively ...
Air Force Wants To Build Supercomputer To Attack DoD Acquisition System The Air Force wants a new supercomputer. Not as part of the Defense Innovation Initiative which seeks to more rapidly develop revolutionary military capabilities. Nor to process the data from ISR platforms operating against ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Nor ...
Six Steps to Securing DoD’s Networks for the 21st Century (A Forthcoming Lexington Institute Study) The Department of Defense (DoD) is at an inflection point with respect to its information networks and their security. The U.S. military is more dependent than ever on its networks which are continually expandi ...
Pentagon Technology Plans And The Illusion Of A Free Ride (From Forbes) President Obama's Pentagon team has rolled out a Defense Innovation Initiative that proposes to preserve the joint force's edge in military technology by, among other things, relying more on commercial breakthroughs. The logic of turning to "non-tradi ...
Vital Souda Bay Base Anchors NATO Role In Eastern Med Since the end of the Cold War, the Mediterranean region has been peaceful, but that is no longer the case. Conflict has exploded in areas that border the sea: Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Gaza, Lebanon, North Africa and the Arabian peninsula. While some of thes ...
Does IDA Study Prove That AT&L Is Unnecessary? Washington is drowning in studies. The Federal Government annually producers a blizzard of studies touting its successes, assessing its situation and minimizing its failures. There are lots of additional studies done annually by avatar organizations su ...
Exodus: Big Defense Companies Are Exiting Federal Services (From Forbes) The word among investors is that the federal services sector, particularly the defense segment, is consolidating. That's one way of looking at it. Another way is to observe that several of the biggest military contractors are exiting the space, and o ...