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June 2023
Taking Measure of Science and Technology Funding
While Defense Department budgets have ebbed and flowed this century, there has been relative consistency in one category: science-and-technology funding. -
June 2023
NORTHCOM Confronts Cultural Barriers To Innovation
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. -
June 2023
Advancing Technology Without Operational Pull
By John C. JohnsonIf 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. -
December 2022
Startup Helps Officers Explain Future Warfare Through Storytelling
By Meredith RoatenUseful Fiction wants to change how warfighters envision new technologies and concepts that will be essential to the future of warfare. -
July 2022
FARNBOROUGH NEWS: New Report Urges Defense Industry to Secure Software Talent
By Meredith RoatenLooking at the bells and whistles on display at one of Europe’s largest airshows, anyone can see that software is the future of aerospace. -
January 2020
JUST IN: Air Force Wants More Techies, Network Modernization Funding
By Mandy MayfieldRecruiting 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. -
September 2018
Study: China Pursuing ‘Quantum Supremacy'
By Mandy MayfieldChina is poised to leap ahead of the United States in the race to develop quantum technology, according to a new report released Sept. 13. -
April 2018
Exclusive: Q&A with Sen. James Inhofe
By Jon HarperNational Defense interviewed Sen. James Inhofe in his Senate office April 9 to discuss a wide range of defense issues. -
March 2018
Raytheon Demonstrates Directed Energy Weapons at Army Exercise
By Yasmin TadjdehRaytheon recently took down 45 drones during an exercise using a high energy laser and a high-power microwave, company executives said March 20. -
March 2018
Execs: Military Failing to Take Advantage of Commercial Space Revolution
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.