Ideas
How Contractor Fraud Is Reported Shouldn’t Affect How It Gets Investigated
There are two main ways that a whistleblower can sound the alarm. Their outcomes can be very different.
Policy
Why 386 Squadrons? Air Force Says It’ll Have the Data Next Year
Air Force leaders say they’ll know how many planes they really need — in March.
Business
Lockheed Pitching F-22/F-35 Hybrid to US Air Force
With a Raptor’s body and the JSF’s brain, the new jet would aim to answer the next decade’s Russian and Chinese threats.
Business
DHS Is Reshaping Federal Cybersecurity with a $1 Billion Contract
Booz Allen will protect six agencies in its largest-ever government job.
Business
Why Did Paul Allen Build the World’s Largest Aircraft?
The six-engine, twin-fuselage Stratolaunch has no commercial customers paying to give their rockets a lift. Are there secret military ones?
Science & Tech
Someone Is Waging a Secret War to Undermine the Pentagon’s Huge Cloud Contract
The battle for the Defense Department’s $10 billion war cloud is getting a lot more interesting.
Business
Lockheed Will Design Both of the US Air Force’s Hypersonic Missiles
The latest contract could give the company lasting advantage over its competitors for some of the Pentagon’s top-priority weapons.
Policy
The ACLU Used Amazon’s Facial Recognition and it Labelled Congress Members as Criminals
Not only did the algorithm falsely match 28 members of Congress to criminal mug shots, but the false matches were more common for congresspeople of color.
Science & Tech
Bidding Begins for Pentagon's Controversial $10 Billion War Cloud
The Defense Department will stick to a single cloud provider for its JEDI cloud contract.
Ideas