Science & Tech
Chuck Schumer’s No-Fly-Zone Rule for Drones Won’t Work
U.S. lawmakers and the military worry about small consumer drones running afoul of planes and emergency crews. But there may be no simple fix.
Ideas
Top-Down IT Approach Too Slow To Meet Threats
The Defense Department arms itself for cyber at the same plodding pace with which it buys major weapons.
Policy
One Year into the War That Congress Won't Declare
What if U.S. lawmakers don’t accept their duty to oversee the U.S. campaign in Iraq and Syria?
Defense Systems
Researchers take high-bandwidth communications to the South Pole
With MUOS, developed by AFRL, the Navy and Lockheed Martin, researchers send the first voice-and-data communications from Antarctica.
Defense Systems
Navy awards two huge deals for tactical radios
ViaSat and Data Link get contracts worth up to total of more then $880 million for MIDS Low Volume Terminals.
Ideas
What Iran Deal Critics Don't Understand About Iran
To Iranians at home and abroad, the agreement isn't a bet on a suspect regime, but on its people.
Ideas
It’s Time to Confront Beijing About the South China Sea
To allow China to continue to expand its role and expectations invites future conflict on a larger scale.
Ideas
Why Can’t Obama Get His Defense Secretary To Release This Guantanamo Prisoner?
The Pentagon, not Congress, is blocking the release of 75-pound prisoner Tariq Ba Odah, six years after he was cleared to go. Where is the president?
Threats
Remember the Pentagon’s Pacific Pivot? It’s Still On
A new strategy document outlines Chinese activities in the South China Sea and the planned US responses to them.
Ideas
Artillery, Protests, and Giant Balloons Mark Rising Korean Tensions
North and South Korea, locked in one of the world’s most intractable conflicts, exchanged fire on Thursday.
Policy
As First Women Graduate Army Ranger School, Women Veterans in Congress Celebrate
Sen. Joni Ernst and Reps. Tammy Duckworth, Tulsi Gabbard, and Martha McSally reflect on how far the military has come since they served, and how far it has yet to go.
Defense Systems
Open source effort targets the trouble with joint avionics
The Future Airborne Capability Environment seeks to deliver common avionics components for all three services.
Defense Systems
Air Force puts 22 companies on $490M Agile Acquisition contract
The five-year deal covers work at Eglin Air Force Base to develop new systems and modify existing ones.
Policy
The Islamic State, Donald Trump, and the Iowa State Fair
Iowa voters value national security, but when Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush’s debate over Iraq fell flat, Donald Trump bulldozed through the opening.
Ideas
Don’t Let the Iran Deal Become 2016’s Swift Boat
Opponents are attacking the Iran Deal with everything they’ve got—almost all of it entirely fabricated and unsupported by the entire nuclear expert community.
Policy
Pentagon Pressures Turkey to Strike ISIS, Tighten Border
More than a year into the U.S.-led campaign against Islamic State militants, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter is demanding Ankara do more.
Ideas
Russia And China Have A Cyber Nonaggression Pact
The two powers are advancing a vision of security in cyberspace that is markedly different from Western approaches.
Threats