International
6/2/2023
CHIBA, Japan — It’s a new dawn of defense cooperation in the Indo-Pacific as nations such as Japan and the United States grow closer militarily as a hedge against China’s ambitions i…
Security and Counterintelligence
6/2/2023
We have got it good on Florida’s Space Coast where we are surfing a boom in the commercial space industry. I can glance up from my garden and see rockets launch satellites into geostationary or…
Missile Defense
6/1/2023
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama — Few arenas in the Army are witnessing more significant transformation than integrated air and missile defense, according to service officials. Col. Pat Costello, director …
Marine Corps News
5/31/2023
Logistics is a concept as old as warfare, but new technologies and the threat of peer competition have prompted the Marine Corps to rethink and rewrite a doctrine untouched for 26 years. Published in…
Defense Contracting
5/30/2023
Federal contractors are awaiting issuance of new procurement regulations targeted at ensuring public disclosure of greenhouse gas, or GHG, emissions and climate-related financial risk and also setting…
Marine Corps News
5/30/2023
In May, the National Defense Industrial Association and Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, in conjunction with DLA Land and Maritime, hosted its 2023 conference organized around the theme of “Bu…
Defense Department
5/30/2023
In this episode, National Defense discusses the future of the V-22 Osprey, the Space Force’s struggle to track objects in orbit and Australia’s new Defence Strategic Review.…
Emerging Technologies
5/30/2023
As the severity of U.S. supply chain vulnerabilities has become more apparent in recent years, the National Defense Industrial Association’s Emerging Technologies Institute launched an ambitious…
Space
5/26/2023
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado — Space is an increasingly crowded domain, with governments and commercial companies across the globe launching more and more systems into orbit. Meanwhile, the Space …
Infotech
5/25/2023
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is seeking help understanding the best ways to use artificial intelligence for national security. In June, DARPA will hold the first of two workshops wit…
Defense Department
5/24/2023
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — The Defense Department's Rapid Innovation Fund, established in 2011 and made a permanent program in 2017, was designed to accelerate fielding of innovative technologies…
Space
5/24/2023
The Space Force is enlisting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s help in handling the growing amount of military satellites in orbit, a service official said May 24. In the la…
Acquisition
5/24/2023
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Technologies such as artificial intelligence and software-based products are “rapidly iterating,” and the Defense Department’s current acquisitions process…
Marine Corps News
5/23/2023
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Marine Corps has already completed much of the transformation outlined in the Force Design 2030 restructuring and re-equipping plan, but the service, Defense Department an…
Army News
5/23/2023
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — When a Chinese balloon “floated across the country” nearly four months ago, the Army received “lots and lots of questions” that prompted a sharp…
Industrial Base
5/23/2023
Over the last few years, we have been sounding the alarm over what we have perceived as a potential threat to U.S. defense — the very real possibility of a critical shortage of field programmabl…
Budget
5/22/2023
The U.S. military’s service chiefs warned of devastating consequences to their ability to defend the nation if Congress fails to resolve the looming debt ceiling crisis. The United States hit i…
Tactical Wheeled Vehicles
5/22/2023
KINGMAN, Arizona — Ukraine will soon receive a limited number of “gun truck” systems to enhance the nation’s counter-drone capabilities. A Northrop Grumman-led team developed …
Simulation Modeling Wargaming and Training
5/19/2023
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands — And then there were 31. The ranks of NATO grew with the recent addition of Finland, and while bigger might be better from a security standpoint, it makes the challenge o…
Air Power
5/18/2023
The fiscal year 2023 budget and the proposed 2024 budget include substantial increases in funding for the Air Force, but the House of Representatives debt ceiling proposal that would return federal sp…
International
5/18/2023
Australia’s long-awaited Defence Strategic Review received relatively little attention in the U.S. press when it was released April 24, but the 110-page document spells out enormous changes for …
Air Force News
5/17/2023
The Air Force’s ability to achieve decision advantage in a contested data and electronic environment will require a vision refresh of an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance flight plan…
Robotics
5/17/2023
The Coast Guard — long seen as lagging behind the other armed services in the use of unmanned systems — has released a robotics roadmap that called for their increased use in a variety of …
Combat Survivability
5/17/2023
ARLINGTON, Virginia — DuPont, the company behind Kevlar material used in body armor, has announced its next generation of aramid fiber, which it says increases flexibility and reduces weight. B…
