Recent Articles
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BudgetAFA NEWS: Air Force to Congress: Modernization, CCA at Risk Without 2024 Budget
September 12, 2023NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — The Air Force is using existing programs and authorities to the extent it can to advance initiatives like the collaborative combat aircraft, but unless Congress passes a 2024 National Defense Authorization Act and budget, there are limits to how much progress the Air Force can make on its modernization goals, the service’s secretary said.
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Air PowerAFA NEWS: Air Force Not Optimized for China Threat, Secretary Says
September 11, 2023NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — Today’s Department of the Air Force is a product of the conflicts, defense budgets and strategic landscape of the last 30 years, and the department is embarking on a wide-ranging effort to “re-optimize” the way it is organized and operates to address the pacing threat from China, the Air Force secretary said.
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Defense DepartmentJUST IN: Software, Workforce Critical Concerns for Service Leaders
August 30, 2023WASHINGTON, D.C. — With the services racing to modernize and pivot to deter peer competitors in the Pacific region, two needs cut across efforts to field new platforms and systems: building and retaining the workforce and acquiring the right software, said service leaders.
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InternationalJUST IN: China Needs to ‘Think Twice’ About Hostile Action in Pacific, Official Says
August 29, 2023WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Defense Department is focused on developing weapons and technologies designed to make China “think twice” about launching any hostile action in the Pacific, said the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering.
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Battlefield CommunicationsDefense Innovation Unit Spinning Space Web for JADC2
August 25, 2023On paper, the Defense Department’s joint all-domain command and control initiative is clear: deploy sensors by land, sea, space and air; transmit sensor data to command centers for fusion, analysis and decision-making; then transmit data out to forces and weapons systems to act on a target. For it all to work, enormous amounts of data need to move quickly. However, legacy communications networks lack the bandwidth.
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Special OperationsJUST IN: SOCOM Needs New Tech, Old Approaches, Senior Leader Says
August 25, 2023While Special Operations Forces have spent most of this century countering terrorists and violent extremists, those missions are now taking a backseat to a new imperative: integrated deterrence, which requires updated technologies and a return to pre-Global War on Terrorism force roles, said the vice commander of Special Operations Command.
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Defense InnovationJUST IN: Defense Innovation Unit Needs to Support Strategic Deterrence, Director Says
August 23, 2023The Defense Innovation Unit has demonstrated success in delivering commercial technology to customers in the Defense Department but needs to take the next step and deliver at a speed and scale that can deter adversaries, said the new director of the unit.
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BudgetCongress Seeks Clarity on JADC2 Spending
August 21, 2023The Defense Department’s joint all-domain command and control initiative, or JADC2, is eyeing an increase in funding in the 2024 budget, and both the House and Senate are largely on board, but the latter has raised concerns about the difficulty of tracking the range of programs, projects and spending on the concept.