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
Dunford Says 8,000 to 12,000 Troops May Be Needed Through 2017 in Afghanistan
The top ISAF commander says US. troops will be needed for many functions in Afghanistan past 2014, but it will be the Afghans doing the fighting – and dying. By Defense One Staff
Defense Systems
Navy rolls out virtualization plan
Shift to software-based virtual nets would be completed by 2018.
Ideas
Ash Carter Got it Right in Aspen, Top DOD Nuclear Weapons Official Responds
Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter was accurate about nuclear weapons costs, but arguing misses the point. The U.S. needs them and can afford them. By Madelyn Creedon
Business
Pentagon May Be Able To Reduce Furloughs to Just Six Days
The Defense Department says it might only have to furlough its civilian workforce for six days, rather than the planned 11 days. By Defense One Staff
Policy
Journalists and Whistleblowers Are the Real Winners in the Manning Trial
Manning's acquittal on the charge of aiding the enemy sent a strong signal to national security whistleblowers and journalists: Go ahead and leak. By Brian Resnick and Matt Berman
Policy
The Government Needs to Stop Overreacting to NSA Leaks
The more serious threat of NSA surveillance comes from the the collective insanity or the simple loss of perspective, that an attack evokes. By James Fallows
Defense Systems
Production deal reached for 71 additional F-35s
Deal with Lockheed Martin seeks to reduce soaring production, unit costs.
Defense Systems
JLENS blimps to patrol DC skies
Blimps are making a comeback, this time as a missile defense sensor initially designed to protect skies over the nation’s capital.
Defense Systems
Joint exercise will assess counter-UAV systems
Black Dart will be tested across integrated platforms over eight days.
Defense Systems