Policy
Pentagon Races to Empty Its Coffers by Month’s End
It’s use-it-or-lose it season for the federal government.
Policy
Air Force Pushes Back on Pentagon’s First Blueprints for Trump’s Space Force
In a pointed memo, Heather Wilson counters several Space Force proposals championed by Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan.
Science & Tech
DARPA Wants to Find Botnets Before They Attack
The defense agency awarded a contract to develop a tool that scours the internet for dormant online armies.
Science & Tech
Inside the Pentagon's Plan to Make Computers ‘Collaborative Partners’
DARPA’s latest artificial intelligence project aims to bridge the gap between a machine that learns from data and one that adds new insights.
Policy
McCain’s Likely SASC Successor Is No GOP Maverick
Sen. Jim Inhofe’s record suggests his Armed Services Committee will hew even more closely to Trump.
Science & Tech
Defense Department Seeks ‘Rapid Cloud Migration’ Ideas for MilCloud
MilCloud 2.0 is about to host a lot more data, and the Defense Department wants ideas for how to get it there faster.
Policy
Downplaying Ghazni, Mattis Defends Trump’s Afghanistan Strategy
The Taliban’s apparent willingness to negotiate is the more important signal of progress in America’s longest war, the defense secretary said Tuesday.
Policy
Mattis: US Troops Can’t Leave Syria Until UN Peace Talks Advance
They’re still fighting ISIS remnants, holding ground, and waiting for a political solution.
Science & Tech
The Pentagon Wants AI to Take Over the Scientific Process
The project is part of DARPA’s newly launched Artificial Intelligence Exploration program, which aims to develop next-generation artificial intelligence applications.
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.
Ideas
Better Wargaming Is Helping the US Military Navigate a Turbulent Era
Two leaders of the Joint Staff’s Studies, Analysis, and Gaming Division evaluate the two-year-old effort to increase, improve, and boost the impact of analytic wargaming.
Ideas
A Message to Pentagon Spokespeople, From Your Former Boss
There’s a difference between campaigning and serving, and people have a right to know what goes on their government.
Policy
Pence Makes Hard Sell For Trump's Space Force by 2020
The administration wants a new military service branch, but space mission's future in the Pentagon and Congress is far from certain.
Policy
DIUx Drops the X, Becomes Permanent
Facing criticism, Pentagon signals to Silicon Valley the military isn't going anywhere.
Ideas
Do We Need a Space Force? That Depends on Our Answers to These Legal and Strategic Questions
The first question that we need to clarify is whether the U.S. and its future peer adversaries are willing to fight a war in space.
Policy
5 Unanswered Questions About Space Force
As Pentagon leaders plan changes to the U.S. military’s orbital-operations organizations, analysts wonder whether they have done all their homework.
Science & Tech
Pentagon Prohibits Personnel From Using GPS Services in All ‘Operational Areas’
The device-agnostic policy applies to smartphones, tablets, fitness trackers, smartwatches and all other applications with geolocation features.
Policy
Pentagon Delays Space Force Report
The day after Defense One published details from an 11th-hour draft of the much-anticipated report, the Pentagon has delayed its release.
Policy
EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon To Start Creating Space Force — Even Before Congress Approves It
Within months, DoD will start standing up a new combatant command, a new space-procurement agency, and a new Space Operations Force.
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