Science & Tech

Pentagon Sets Up a Silicon Valley Outpost

Can Ash Carter enlist a tech community spooked by spying and allergic to bureaucracy?

Ideas

Make Manpower Matter

If the Pentagon wants good people, it needs to put good people in the top Personnel slot.

Business

Defense Contractors Unsatisfied with Thornberry's Acquisition Bill

A contractor's trade group representing some 400 companies say Rep. Mac Thornberry's acquisition reform bill further complicates an already complicated process.

Ideas

Intelligence Reform 2.0

Here are six ways to make sure America’s leaders and troops get the intel they need.

Threats

US, Iraq Forces Working To Protect Ramadi, Dempsey Says

The Joint Chiefs Chairman says that the fall of Ramadi to Islamic State militants wouldn't be a symbolic defeat for the Iraqi government.

Science & Tech

Pentagon To Recruit Thousands For Cybersecurity Reserve Force

Military leaders want private sector and National Guard cyber professionals at the ready in case of a national network emergency.

Threats

New Pentagon Chief Carter to Court Silicon Valley

The Pentagon wants to partner more with Silicon Valley tech firms, but can radically different cultures find common ground?

Business

The Pentagon Says This Man Can Fix Its Personnel System

Army Under Secretary and former Congressman Brad Carson takes the reins in an office that has seen nine leaders since 2009.

Business

Pentagon: We Can’t Afford to Replace Aging ICBMs, Bombers, Subs

Even if sequestration goes away, the Defense Department will need at least $10 billion more per year to modernize its nuclear arsenal, procurement chief says.

Science & Tech

The Pentagon's Cartographers Won't Be Robots Anytime Soon

Machines are increasingly taking on routine scanning tasks, but are still no match for human analysts.

Threats

How the Military Can Reinforce the Pivot to Asia

A broader investment in technology and innovation can create the necessary edge to win future battles in the Pacific.

Ideas

Thornberry’s Bill a Good Start on Acquisition Reform

But far more is needed to make the US military 'the world’s fastest incorporator' of new technology.

Business

Pentagon's Next Bomber Will Be Built To Upgrade

The stealthy strike aircraft the Air Force buys this year will look a lot different when it is retired to the boneyard decades from now.

Policy

Thornberry’s Acquisition Bill: Solid Contact, But No Home Run

The HASC chairman proposes several good ideas and several of less use.

Science & Tech

It's Taking Nearly a Decade To Upgrade the Pentagon's Internet

Defense Department IT officials are still using a technology transition plan that doesn't even reflect the role of U.S. Cyber Command, which launched in 2009.

Business

3 Takeaways from Ash Carter's 'Force of the Future'

With the Pentagon already struggling to cap rising personnel costs, are the defense secretary's new plans too ambitious to be sustainable?

Science & Tech

Why Sharing Information on Cyber Threats Is So Difficult

Two barriers, one cultural and the other technical, continue to plague well-intentioned policy efforts.