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Defense Contracting
February 2020
A High-Profile OTA Program Goes Off the Rails
It had to happen at some point. A high-profile, big-ticket Army program using an other transaction authority agreement has turned into a fiasco. -
Research and Development
January 2020
An R&D Alliance That Can Challenge China
MAKUHARI, Japan — The amount of funding China is putting toward research and development is climbing faster than a Long March rocket. -
Army News
December 2019
Army Searches for Common Ground on IP Rights
“IP is one of my favorite topics. Do you have another hour?” Bruce Jette, assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology, asked the moderator during a recent talk. -
Defense Department
November 2019
A Magazine Looks to the Past and Future
Welcome to the National Defense Industrial Association’s big centennial issue. -
Research and Development
October 2019
‘Second Bold Era’ of S&T Requires More Funding
A White House memorandum on fiscal year 2021 administration research-and-development budget priorities strikes many good notes as it seeks to guide federal departments and agencies on their budget proposals, which are due in February. -
Global Defense Market
August 2019
Make China Pay for Pulling the Rare Earth Card
In May 2014, then-Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin threatened to cut off the supply of Russian-made RD-180 rocket engines to the United States as the two great powers tussled diplomatically about the invasion of Ukraine. -
Acquisition
August 2019
The Road to Acquisition Reform ‘Nirvana’
Ninety-nine years of magazines sit in a bookcase located in the association’s office. What began as Army Ordnance in July 1920 would eventually morph into National Defense. -
Viewpoint
July 2019
Why I Didn’t Stop by Your Conference Booth
Another Special Operations Forces Industry Conference has passed, where National Defense had three reporters on hand and about four dozen requests to stop by exhibitors’ booths to check out a new product or to interview executives. -
Space
June 2019
Time for a Bold New Space Architecture
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — It appears the nation will soon have a “unified” space command. -
Special Operations
May 2019
SOCOM’s Iron Man Suit - A Worthy Moonshot
It was six years ago at SOFIC in Tampa, Florida, when then-Special Operations Command Commander Navy Adm. William H. McRaven first mentioned a technology development program that would go on to be popularly known as the “Iron Man suit.”
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