Defense
The Cyber Goldrush Begins When Chinese agents penetrated the computers of the Obama campaign during the recent election season and stole many sensitive files, they pretty much guaranteed that the nation's next president would . . .
FOUR REASONS FOR CONFIDENCE IN THE F-35 If you don't follow the defense business closely, then you can be excused for believing that the F-35 joint strike fighter is in trouble. The $300 billion program to develop a stealthy, multirole tactical . . .
Alternate Engine Problems Prove Critics Were Right After ten months of testing, the alternate engine that General Electric and Rolls Royce are building for the F-35 joint strike fighter has managed to run for a grand total of 52 hours, during which time . . .
Defense Acquisition Reform Conference – 12.1.09 The Lexington Institute is organizing a Capitol Hill panel on defense acquisition reform on December 1, 2009. Confirmed speakers to date are: • Mr. David Berteau, Senior Advisor, Center for . . .
THANK OUR WWII HEROES WHILE WE CAN Today marks the 90th anniversary of Veterans Day in America, and I would like to encourage all New Jersey residents to seek out and thank military veterans for their service to our country, especially . . .
Tanker Wars: Why Boeing Thinks Subsidies Matter The Air Force's plan to conduct an expeditious re-competition of its future tanker program has run into trouble. An initial award was overturned when the Government Accountability Office found major . . .
Tanker Wars: Why Northrop Grumman Thinks It Can’t Win Last week, one of the two teams competing to provide the Air Force's future aerial-refueling tanker launched an unusual campaign to overturn the service's strategy for buying the plane. Northrop Grumman . . .
The Army Needs To Ensure Continuity Of Operations At The Radford Ammo Plant The Army is in the process of recompeting the contract for a private company to operate and maintain what is the foundation of its ammunition supply chain, the Radford Army Ammunition Plant (RFAAP) in . . .
Army WIN-T Must Keep Evolving To Meet Warfighter Needs When the U.S. Army marched off to war earlier in this decade, it took with it communications gear that was woefully inadequate for the demands of irregular warfare. Battlefield communications systems . . .
The Age Of Robotic Combat Systems Has Not Arrived Ever since Czech playwright Karel Capek introduced the concept of mechanical men in his 1921 drama, Rossum's Universal Robots, prophets have been predicting the imminent arrival of machines that . . .