Ideas
Maintaining the Edge in the Age of Everything
Ash Carter's message to the Defense One Summit: a new commitment to military, academic, business and scientific partnerships.
Defense Systems
Top 20 Defense contractors, 2015
Which contractors get the largest slices of the defense spending pie?
Defense Systems
Marines award $73.2M deal for backpack electronic warfare devices
The Modi II from Sierra Nevada Corp. can jam IED detonation signals and disrupt enemy communications.
Ideas
How ISIS Spread in the Middle East
Tracing the roots of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria—and how to stop it.
Ideas
What It Would Really Take to Knock Out the Power Grid
As our electrical system lifts itself out of the stone age, the defense built around it will require added vigilance.
Policy
Budget Deal Is A Big Win for Pentagon
Even though it’s only a two-year agreement, the budget deal passed by Congress and the White House will get the Pentagon past the worst of the spending caps.
Threats
Bye-Bye ‘No Boots on the Ground’: US to Send Special Ops Troops to Syria
After months of looking at new options, the White House will send in ground forces.
Defense Systems
Army depot deploys emergency notification system
The Tobyhanna Army Depot in Pennsylvania has put a four-prong system into use for emergencies.
Defense Systems
DOD to expand cyber exchange program with industry
Pentagon CIO Terry Halvorsen says the employee exchange would include about 10 companies.
Threats
Expect the Russians to Keep Buzzing American Navy Ships
Cold War-era tactics resurface at sea, but this time, Moscow’s ultimate intentions are unknown.
Science & Tech
Black Hawk Empty: Unmanned Helicopter Passes Key Test
The Army’s signature rotorcraft, equipped with new hardware and software, shows off a new self-piloting capability and robotic teaming.
Science & Tech
Now We Have a (Tiny) Tractor Beam
Today, it moves little specks of plastic, but someday the sky may be the limit.
Policy
Pentagon Transfers Detainee to Mauritania, Leaving 113 At Guantanamo
The Obama administration continues to whittle the military detention center’s population.
Ideas
Don’t Call Warlord Territory an ‘Ungoverned Space'
If we are to restore the rule of law to areas held by non-government groups, we must consider the sort of order they provide.
Threats
A Who's Who Guide to the Syrian Civil War
The Syrian war looks different depending on which protagonists you focus on. Here are just a few ways to look at it.
Policy
A Weakened Bush Swings at Rubio; Rising Rubio Aims at Clinton
Jeb goes negative, along with his poll numbers, awkwardly aiming at Rubio's absent Senate record.
Defense Systems