Defense
Prepare For Cyber Armageddon
The United States is woefully unprepared to deal with the inevitability of a major cyber attack. Recent hacks of private companies such as Sony, Home Depot, Target and the like are warnings of greater dangers to come; like the proverbial canary in the ...
Next-Gen Jammer: Raytheon Leads A Revolution In Information Warfare (From Forbes)
Raytheon scored a smashing success with the first airborne tests of its Next Generation Jammer in October. Flying against threats mimicking the performance of the latest Chinese and Russian radars, the jammer demonstrated flawless performance operatin ...
DoD’s Sophie’s Choice Moment: Choosing between Strategic and Conventional Forces
How does a parent choose which one of her two children to sacrifice in order that the other will live? This is the choice that confronts Sophie in William Styron’s eponymous novel. If this seems like a dilemma fit only for novels and not real life, not ...
BAE Systems, General Dynamics Disclose Leadership Shifts At Defense Innovation Hubs (From Forbes)
The first week in December brought news of important leadership changes in the most innovative segment of the U.S. defense industry. At BAE Systems, Inc. Chief Operating Officer Tom Arseneault assumed the additional role of President with its electron ...
2015 NDAA Holds Air Force’s Feet To The Fire On RD-180 Replacement
The Air Force is running out of wiggle room when it comes to developing an American replacement for the Russian rocket engine that powers the Atlas V space launch vehicle. According to a report in yesterday’s DefenseNews, the Senate and House conferees ...
Ashton Carter Is An Inspired Choice To Lead The Pentagon (From Forbes)
When it comes to picking political appointees, Ashton (Ash) Carter is about as good as it gets. The former Deputy Secretary of Defense is apparently the White House's choice to replace Chuck Hagel in the Pentagon's top job, and a review of Carter's re ...
With the Right Incentives Defense Companies Can Give DoD A Better Deal
Two of the biggest shopping days of the Christmas season, Black Friday and Cyber Monday, are based on a simple economic proposition: with the right incentives both buyers and sellers can optimize their interests. For the seller it is revenues and profi ...
After Hagel: How Budget Caps Are Bankrupting America’s Military (From Forbes)
Like a bankrupt enterprise, America's military no longer has the resources necessary to meet its core commitments. The culprit is an arcane budget process called sequestration that threatens to cut defense spending $55 billion each year through the en ...
U.S. Army Heads Back To The Future In Europe
Until recently, the U.S. Army thought it had been unshackled from its Cold War past and paroled from its imprisonment in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now it was free to develop new operational concepts, tactics and capabilities with which to address the threa ...
DoD Cannot Command Industry To Go Forth And Innovate
Like King Canute ordering the tides to recede, the Department of Defense (DoD) has ordered its contractors to provide more innovation. Last weekend, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced the Defense Innovation Initiative, described as an ambitious ...