Laura Heckmann
Recent Articles
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Marine Corps News
New Marine Corps Logistics Doctrine Emphasizes Resiliency
May 31, 2023Logistics 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.
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Defense Department
JUST IN: Rapid Innovation Fund Needs Funds, Official Says
May 24, 2023SAN ANTONIO, Texas — The Rapid Innovation Fund, established in 2011 and made a permanent program in 2017, was designed to accelerate fielding of innovative technologies for small businesses, but a lack of funding is hindering its ability to carry out its mission.
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Acquisition
JUST IN: Flexible Defense Funding Needed to Keep Pace With Rapidly Changing Tech
May 24, 2023Technologies such as artificial intelligence and software-based products are “rapidly iterating,” and the Defense Department’s current acquisitions process isn’t going to keep up, one service official said.
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Army News
JUST IN: Chinese Balloon Lifted U.S. Army Efforts to Sense Emerging Threats (UPDATED)
May 23, 2023SAN 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 sharpened focus on one of Army North’s homeland defense priorities: domain awareness, according to a service leader.
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Air Force News
JUST IN: Air Force Updating, Clarifying ISR Vision, Official Says
May 17, 2023The 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 signed in 2018, a service official said.
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Combat Survivability
Upgraded Kevlar to Lighten Loads for Troops
May 17, 2023DuPont, 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.
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Maritime Security
JUST IN: Coast Guard Learning to Love Data Management, Information Technology
May 11, 2023As the United States Coast Guard defines its roll in an increasingly complex maritime domain, it must focus on managing decades of data and harnessing information technology, said the service’s top official.
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Maritime Security
Partnership, Presence Key to U.S. Strategy In the Arctic
April 28, 2023With climate change opening once impenetrable Arctic sea lanes, great power competition is heading north, leading the United States and its allies to invest more in partnerships and presence in the region to maintain free and open seas.