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Science and Engineering Technology

June 2023

Taking Measure of Science and Technology Funding

By Sean Carberry
While Defense Department budgets have ebbed and flowed this century, there has been relative consistency in one category: science-and-technology funding.
Technology Tomorrow

June 2023

NORTHCOM Confronts Cultural Barriers To Innovation

By Laura Heckmann
Distance has long been one of the best weapons the Pentagon has to protect the homeland, but new threats are emerging that chip away at the notion that the United States can see an attack coming in plenty of time.
Emerging Technologies

June 2023

Advancing Technology Without Operational Pull

By John C. Johnson
If you want to know where you’re going, use a map with a strong compass orientation. In the defense community, achievements in generational technology have traditionally been made using product road maps coupled closely with subsystem and component-level road maps that provide a vision of the product’s next iteration.
Small Business

December 2022

Startup Helps Officers Explain Future Warfare Through Storytelling

By Meredith Roaten
Useful Fiction wants to change how warfighters envision new technologies and concepts that will be essential to the future of warfare.
Emerging Technologies

July 2022

FARNBOROUGH NEWS: New Report Urges Defense Industry to Secure Software Talent

By Meredith Roaten
Looking at the bells and whistles on display at one of Europe’s largest airshows, anyone can see that software is the future of aerospace. 
Air Force News

January 2020

JUST IN: Air Force Wants More Techies, Network Modernization Funding

By Mandy Mayfield
Recruiting the brightest minds from technology companies is imperative for the Air Force to keep its software codes updated in an era of great power competition, the service’s top officer said.
International

September 2018

Study: China Pursuing ‘Quantum Supremacy'

By Mandy Mayfield
China is poised to leap ahead of the United States in the race to develop quantum technology, according to a new report released Sept. 13.
Defense Department

April 2018

Exclusive: Q&A with Sen. James Inhofe

By Jon Harper
National Defense interviewed Sen. James Inhofe in his Senate office April 9 to discuss a wide range of defense issues.
Emerging Technologies

March 2018

Raytheon Demonstrates Directed Energy Weapons at Army Exercise

By Yasmin Tadjdeh
Raytheon recently took down 45 drones during an exercise using a high energy laser and a high-power microwave, company executives said March 20.
Acquisition

March 2018

Execs: Military Failing to Take Advantage of Commercial Space Revolution

By Stew Magnuson
Whether it’s high-throughput communications spacecraft, flat electronically steerable antennas or the new wave of low-Earth orbiting small satellites, the military is failing to leverage the billions of dollars the private sector is investing in new technologies, industry executives said March 14.