Defense
Raytheon Revs Up Growth With Bold Websense Cyber Venture (From Forbes)
Raytheon disclosed Monday that it is acquiring cybersecurity firm Websense and will form a joint venture with Vista Equity Partners to greatly expand the defense company's global cyber offerings. Company executives say the move will accelerate Raytheo ...
Deft Jam: Electronic Warfare Is The Face Of Future Combat (From Forbes)
The electromagnetic spectrum has become a warfighting domain -- a place where invisible enemies maneuver for advantage -- and America may be losing the battle for dominance. At least, that's what the Pentagon's research chief said at the National Pres ...
GM Could Teach DoD About The Incentives For Long-Term Contracts
Senior Department of Defense (DoD) officials have made greater access to commercial technologies from non-defense companies a central feature of their plans for the promotion of defense innovation and the continuation of U.S. military-technological pre ...
Defense Innovation Proponents Are Pitching To The Wrong Audience
Over the past year, senior Pentagon officials have begun to sound increasingly strident warnings about the nation’s lack of preparedness for future conflicts. Unfortunately, the primary focus of such warnings has been on the decline in U.S. military pr ...
Five Ways Killing Ex-Im Bank Would Really Hurt America (From Forbes)
The wrong-headed campaign that congressional conservatives have launched to block reauthorization of America's export credit agency won't do anything to reverse the serious challenges facing America, such as out-of-control federal borrowing and a burge ...
CSIS Event: Washington Must Continue to Outpace Missile Threats
The Center for Strategic and International Studies hosted an event last week that allowed speakers in and out of government to discuss missile defense. Washington’s need to outpace missile threats into the future was underscored, along with priority ar ...
Air Force’s Secret “Gorgon Stare” Program Leaves Terrorists Nowhere To Hide (From Forbes)
The Air Force's Gorgon Stare sensor system mounted on the MQ-9 Reaper hunter-killer drone has become the tactical recon asset that warfighters in Afghanistan most crave. It is the service's only persistent, day-or-night, wide-area surveillance system, ...
The Pentagon’s New Offset Strategy Faces Major Hurdles
U.S. defense officials have become almost frantic about what they see as the need to find a way of offsetting the perceived loss of American military-technological preeminence over prospective adversaries. This new reality led then-Defense Secretary Ha ...
DoD Healthcare Exec Pushes $11 Billion IT Upgrade, But Unwittingly Reveals Why It Won’t Work
On March 25, the program executive overseeing a proposed modernization of the military healthcare records system testified before the Senate's defense appropriations subcommittee. Christopher A. Miller urged committee members to support a costly upgrad ...
Navy Buys In Bulk To Save Money, Build The Fleet
There has been renewed attention of late in defense circles with the subject of Pentagon spending reforms. The combination of increasing threats and declining budgets has given a new impetus to the subject. There is a sense that this might be the momen ...