Ideas
Beach Reads: Defense One’s Top Picks for your iPad
Can’t get the sequester out of your swim trunks? Here are some big ideas for your little iPad while you soak up the sun. By Defense One Staff
Ideas
In The Tank: This Week’s Best Defense and National Security Think Tank Offerings
The latest in wonk reads on national security, tech, and more. By Kedar Pavgi
Ideas
DC's Political Paralysis 'Means More Casualties' for Untrained Soldiers
The best place to learn how Washington’s budget impasse is putting troops at risk is the Army’s National Training Center, which has cancelled rotations for the first time since 1981. By James Kitfield
Threats
Worldwide Travel Alert Issued for Al Qaeda Threat
State Department issues advisories, plans to close embassies on Sunday in response to unspecified threat. By Sara Sorcher
Defense Systems
Next-gen Gray Eagle UAS aces flight tests
Improved Gray Eagle doubles mission flight time, payload capacity.
Defense Systems
Deborah Lee James nominated to be next Air Force secretary
James currently serves as the president of the technology and engineering sector at SAIC.
Defense Systems
Army eyes new, lightweight radio system
System would be an alternative to commercial satellite services.
Business
Time to Treat the VA's Problems as DOD's Problems
The VA's letdowns are now the Defense Department's problem, too. It’s time VA readiness were on par with DOD readiness. By Alexander Nicholson
Business
How BAE Systems Execs are Surviving Sequester: Shadeless Airline Windows
Two BAE Systems executive VPs say that they're pivoting away from uncertain U.S. defense dollars and moving into commercial and foreign markes, or "portfolio shaping". By Sara Sorcher
Business
Guantanamo Prison Complex Pricetag: $5.24 Billion
The operating costs for the Guantanamo prison complex will be more than $454 million this year. The cost of running a U.S. maximum security prison? Just $70,000 a year. By Lily Kuo
Defense Systems
The New CIA: Cyber Intelligence Agency
The growing need for cyber intelligence will only increase as new technologies are deployed.
Defense Systems
Lockheed Martin wins Navy contract for helicopter software support
$39M pact calls for providing flight test, technical, management, process services.
Defense Systems
Hagel on DOD budget trade-offs: capacity vs. capability
Sequestration options range from force reductions to 'modernization holiday.'
Ideas
Wanted: A Post-War Watchdog for Nation-Building
The U.S. may be ending big wars, but military 'stability operations' and expensive nation-building projects will continue. The U.S. inspector general in Iraq argues the Pentagon needs someone to oversee contingency spending. By Stuart Bowen
Business
Hagel Presses Congress with Grim Alternatives to Sequestration
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's SCMR lays out tough choices for Congress on how to cut the defense budget without sequestration. By Stephanie Gaskell
Science & Tech
Introducing ThreatWatch: A New Way to Explore the Evolving World of Cyber Dangers
A new way to track the evolving threats in cyberspace. By Aliya Sternstein
Policy
China is Building a 'New Silk Road' in Afghanistan
Meanwhile, the Pentagon and State Department's plans for a similar transportation network remains in the idea phase. By Steve LeVine
Business
The Government's Real Problem With the Bradley Manning Trial
Despite a guilty verdict on most counts, the government still can't share intelligence. By Matthew Cooper
Policy
Hagel to Reveal Sequester Review, Three Paths for Pentagon Future
With the Strategic Choices and Management Review in hand, Hagel will present three budget scenarios and their consequences to the Defense Department. By Stephanie Gaskell
Threats