Defense Systems

Navy outlines plans for tech-centric weapons systems

At the Naval Future Force Science and Technology Expo, ONR highlights its funded and unfunded New Starts for 2016.

Defense Systems

ONR makes a serious game of missile defense, electronic warfare

Strike Group Defender: The Missile Matrix gives sailors realistic lessons in how to respond to incoming threats.

Defense Systems

DOD leaders take their place in the Fed 100

FCW's annual list honoring people doing great things in public-sector IT includes 22 Defense Department honorees.

Policy

Ash Carter May Lean Forward on Iraq, Syria, But Not Too Far

The defense secretary nominee seeks a pragmatic, ‘lasting’ approach to long-term problems in the Middle East.

Science & Tech

What Military Contractors Can Learn From the Pentagon's 2016 Budget

The Pentagon’s 2016 spending proposal would drive growth in several defense-industry sectors, but budget caps could slow weapon purchases.

Ideas

Ash Carter Has One Shot To Keep the Pentagon’s Technology Edge

Carter likely has only one shot to shape the Pentagon budget entirely on his own.

Threats

Obama Insiders Divided About Shifting Fight From Assad to ISIS

To save Syria, destroy ISIS? Not Assad? Not everyone in Obama’s administration agrees you can have one without the other.

Science & Tech

The Pentagon's Adoption of Cloud Technology Is Finally Taking Off

As the Pentagon transitions to use more cloud-based services, its systems still have a long way to go in improving how they collect, distribute and share information.

Policy

Is Netanyahu Forging a New Normal in US-Israeli Relations?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's high-profile intervention into American politics is a dramatic reversal from historic norms. But will it make any difference to Washington or Jerusalem?

Threats

What the Flournoy and Friends' Plan To Arm Ukraine's Army Fails To Take Into Account

Do Flournoy, Daalder, Stavridis, Chuck Wald and friends really believe this will change the game -- or Putin's mind?

Threats

Here's Where Europe Has Made Big Changes in Cyber Security

The more than two dozen nations that make up the European Union are making surprising new progress in the cyber domain.

Business

White House Announces New Rules for NSA Spying

The Intelligence Community outlines new changes to what data the government keeps on Americans and foreigners.

Ideas

The Case for Why Economic Development Is Making Nigeria More Dangerous

While living standards are rising, rapid modernization has laid bare the state's ability to effectively provide security.

Policy

What Democrats Lose By Disowning Jimmy Carter

The 39th president's name has become an epithet in Washington for weak and naive foreign policy. That could not be any farther from the truth.

Science & Tech

Is Obama's $14 Billion Cybersecurity Request Enough?

The Obama administration is hoping that Congress signs off on a 10 percent budget increase to protect computer networks across the federal government