Ideas
Defense Giants Should Stop Funding Election Deniers
If it turns out that antidemocratic action is not a red line for the defense industry, we need to start asking more serious questions.
Business
2021 Top Ten: Business
Industry hailed the Pentagon's cashflow assistance as personnel and supply-chain woes mounted. Now inflation might be the biggest concern.
Business
Small Firm Tapped to Make Threat Detectors for Satellites
The Space Force’s $32M contract seems to be the kind of award the Pentagon has recently extolled.
Business
Finland Chooses F-35 Over Super Hornet, 3 European Fighters
It’s the second win this year for the F-35 in a European fighter competition.
Science & Tech
General Atomics Unveils New Drone That Carries 16 Hellfire Missiles
The Mojave, marketed for special forces, doesn’t need a traditional runway to launch.
Business
Defense Spending Could Rise, Wall Street Analysis Say
Ten months into the Biden administration, predictions of flat budgets are evaporating amid inflation and Congress delays.
Science & Tech
DODIIS Conference Wire: USAF's Information Warfare
On Day 2 of the conference, a look at how the Air Force's new IW operating concepts.
Science & Tech
DODIIS Conference Wire: AI's Promise and Peril
As DODIIS opened, several leaders said machine learning would help keep tabs on Russian and Chinese advances—eventually.
Business
Amazon Offers 2nd Air-Gapped Cloud For Top-Secret Data
The new cloud's data centers are "more than 1,000 miles" away from the northern-Virginia complex that serves U.S. intelligence and defense agencies.
Threats
DODIIS Conference Wire: What to Look For
Some 3,000 people are expected to attend this year's edition of the DIA's IT-and-intelligence conference.
Policy
Austin Warns Against Over-Hyping Recent Chinese Weapons Tests
The defense secretary also pushed for deeper ties between the Pentagon and technology firms.
Threats
Merchant Marine Academy Woes Imperil National Security, Report Finds
The Academy didn’t seem to “really be aware of the changes that were going on in the shipping industry,” one investigator said.
Policy
Defense Industry Asks White House to Allow COVID Tests to Substitute for Vax Mandate
Nation’s largest military shipbuilder says it won’t comply until mandate is written into a contract.
Policy