Defense

A Big Week for Missile Defense In case you haven’t noticed, missile defense has become mainstream. Israel has deployed the Iron Dome, a nationwide defense against short-range rockets and ballistic missiles. The Iron Dome system proved remarkably effective in last year’s conflict wit ...
SBIRS: The Pentagon’s Most Important Space Program For Preventing Nuclear War (From Forbes) The United States lacks defenses against a large-scale nuclear attack.  Instead, it depends on the threat of retaliation to deter aggression.  But deterrence can't work unless U.S. command authorities have timely warning that an attack is under way.  T ...
Air Force Acquisition Has Become A Hotbed Of Innovation (From Forbes) The new millennium has not been a good time for the Air Force's acquisition community.  Lack of funding, doubts about requirements, and a contracting scandal have made it hard to execute a balanced modernization program.  However, a new generation of A ...
AT&L’s Effort To “Reform” IR&D Policies Actually Will Make Things Worse The Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (AT&L), Frank Kendall, has spent enormous time and effort trying to improve the way the Department of Defense acquires goods and services. AT&L has published three version ...
How Export Controls Can Hurt National Security (From Forbes) The federal government regulates the export of items with potential military uses to assure they do not fall into the hands of America's enemies.  The Obama Administration recognized early in its tenure that the export-control regime had become outdate ...
Pentagon Plan To Manage F-35 Sustainment Is A Good Move Seventy percent of the lifetime cost of a weapons system is incurred after it is bought. There is the recurring maintenance that all complex systems require. If employed in combat, maintenance costs rise even if there is no real damage to be repaired. ...
Failed State: Five Reasons Iraq Can’t Be Fixed (From Forbes) Over the course of its 8,000-year history, the area we now call Iraq has played host to at least a dozen major civilizations -- some indigenous, some imposed from afar.  Knowing so many empires have come and gone there, U.S. policymakers shouldn't be s ...
The Pentagon Is Focusing On The Wrong Aspect of Commercial Innovation U.S. companies are the most innovative in the world. Indeed, the locus of technology innovation has moved from government, particularly the Pentagon, to the private sector. This is particularly the case for computers, electronics and IT which are the h ...
Navy’s Investment In Advanced Capabilities Should Include Next Generation Lighting Even as the defense budget has shrunk and demands continue to grow for forward naval presence and crisis response, the U.S. Navy has been steadily investing in a wide range of new, even revolutionary capabilities. There is the new Ford-class aircraft c ...
A Unique Marine Task Force Works To Provide Security As Middle East Peace Crumbles (From Forbes) The U.S. Marine Corps has proven once again that adaptability is one of its core competencies, with the successful deployment of a shore-based crisis response unit to the Persian Gulf region.  Over a seven-month period, the specially-trained Marine Exp ...
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