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Integrated PPBE Planning Is Necessary to Make JADC2 a Success

The PPBE planning process is foundational to JADC2, but there are significant roadblocks to making the joint mission a reality.

Threats

Navy Should Be ‘In the Way,’ But ‘Non-Provocative,’ CNO Says

Speaking less than a week after an “unsafe maritime interaction” with China in the Taiwan Strait, Adm. Mike Gilday said the U.S. wants “things to remain stable and predictable.”

Threats

To Escape Bullies, Military ‘Forced to Move’ Families with LGBTQ+ Kids

Harassment of children is "detracting from our readiness," says top Air Force manpower official, "because their school will do nothing when their LGBT kid is being bullied."

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North America Executive Summary 2023 Ransomware Trends Report: Lessons Learned from 350 Cyber Attacks

Download the 2023 North America Executive Summary to learn from their experiences so you can make sure you are prepared.

Ideas

Who Should Be NATO’s Next Secretary General?

With profound challenges on the horizon, NATO needs a highly skilled leader to be its voice. Only candidates with international credibility and a track record of delivering for Ukraine need apply.

Business

GE Joins Lockheed in Lobbying for New Tanker Competition

Coalition turns up heat three months after USAF said they’d probably just buy Boeing.

Voices

Defense Systems

Army Follows Other Branches in Reorganizing IT Efforts

Expect a one-stop cyber shop as network-related programs move to new homes.

Defense Systems

Overheating F-35s May Get Service-Specific Cooling Upgrades, Likely Hiking Cost

The jets’ engines are running twice as hot as designed, boosting maintenance and capping performance.

Policy

Marines Will Restructure Infantry Battalions by September

The changes are informed by the service’s Infantry Battalion Experiment, part of Force Design 2030.

Ideas

We Argued About Admitting Ukraine to NATO in 2008. Now We Agree on It.

The authors—longtime senior U.S. and German national-security figures—describe how they concluded that alliance membership is a necessary step.

Threats

Army Seeks Bomb-Carrying Drones Like Ukraine’s

Average U.S. soldiers could pilot lethal quadcopters—if they are ever fielded.

Threats

USAF Calls Killer-AI Report ‘Anecdotal’

Chief of AI test and operations says he “misspoke” about a “thought experiment” in which a drone killed its operator.

Business

L3Harris Won't Attend the Paris Air Show

CEO says the company will choose to focus attention on the company’s operations.

Policy

Pentagon Buying Musk’s Starlink for Ukraine

SpaceX had donated 20,000 satellite terminals to Ukraine, but later said the service was “never intended to be weaponized.”