The Air Force aims to install a new Air Staff member to oversee information warfare by the end of fiscal year 2019, the service's cyberspace strategy and policy director told Inside Defense Friday.
The Pentagon's technology chief predicts the Defense Department within the next five years will produce operational systems backed by quantum timing devices, as the U.S. military looks to reduce its reliance on GPS.
Reliance on the Army's Patriot system to defend a forward U.S. base against a one-minute, missile-salvo attack from China or Russia would cost nearly one quarter of a billion dollars, a sum that requires the Pentagon to consider new operations concepts and a new generation of “cost-effective” defenses to harden U.S. positions against such attacks.
The United States was “slow” to understand China’s military strategy, according to the top Marine Corps general in charge of the service’s combat development command.
The United States was “slow” to understanding China’s military strategy, according to the top Marine Corps general in charge of the service’s combat development command.
Realizing the rework necessary for missile tubes slated for the Columbia-class submarine "were more substantial than previously contemplated," BWX Technologies has reserved $26.7 million to cover repairs, the company disclosed today.
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD -- The White House's trade policy office, on the heels of a sweeping defense industrial base assessment, next wants to hone in on the U.S. infrastructure sector and how it can be shored up against potential Chinese intrusions, according to the head of the office.
Though the Defense Department failed to receive a “clean” opinion from auditors who examined more than $2.7 trillion in DOD assets, Pentagon officials say the historic undertaking has provided valuable information that will improve military readiness and cybersecurity.
The Pentagon, as long expected, has failed its first-ever audit, according to Deputy Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan, who said the department is still making steady progress in business reforms.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jim Inhofe (R-OK) today came out in favor of a $733 billion total defense topline, putting him at odds with the White House, which has directed the Pentagon to plan for a $700 billion topline.
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