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The D Brief: New CJCS; Contracts, cancelled; Europe pledges Ukraine aid; Report: China avows Volt…
After a two-month vacancy, President Trump has secured his preferred top military advisor. Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan Caine was confirmed as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in a 60-25 late-night Senate vote. Caine has…
Long-sought goal of better Pentagon buying may finally be within reach
Calls to overhaul the Pentagon’s buying process go back decades—to the Revolutionary War, one former congressman joked—from defense secretaries from William Perry to Donald Rumsfeld to Robert Gates to Ash Carter. An executive order signed…
Space Force’s intelligence ‘marketplace’ gets funds to expand
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—A Space Force program that buys commercial satellite imagery and analytics has seen success across combatant commands—and with a plus-up from Congress, the service hopes to give commands more information and new…
Trump’s defense-acquisition executive order hits the right notes
President Trump’s April 9 executive order, “Modernizing Acquisitions and Spurring Innovation in the Defense Industrial Base,” hits the right notes and endorses the right approaches. After decades of ever-new studies, commissions, and…
The D Brief: New defense EOs; Somalia concerns; Ukrainian’s advice for US; Spies target fired feds;…
Trio of executive orders seek to improve defense acquisition, exports, and shipbuilding. On Wednesday, President Trump released a flurry of ten EOs and memos, including one to modify his market-tanking tariff scheme and another about…
How drones, data, and AI transformed our military—and why the US must follow suit
Ukraine’s tactical drones are “inflicting roughly two-thirds of Russian losses,” making them “twice as effective as every other weapon in the Ukrainian arsenal,” says a recent study by the Royal United Services Institute. This is a…
Defense acquisition, exports, and shipbuilding figure in trio of new executive orders
The White House on Wednesday released three defense-related executive orders: One to overhaul Pentagon acquisition, one to reform arms exports, and one to “restore American maritime dominance.” The acquisition order aims to “reform our…
Space Force preps ‘international space strategy’ as US-ally ties fray
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Space Force leaders aim to increase their collaboration with allies, saying military-to-military relationships remain strong—despite White House policies that have deeply strained relations with U.S. security…
Confronted with ‘eye-opening’ costs, SecNav vows to root out waste
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—Two weeks into the Navy’s top job, John Phelan is wrestling with eye-popping program costs and “unacceptable” shipbuilding delays. “Every missed milestone in shipbuilding and maintenance is a risk to our national…
Marine Corps to field counter-drone systems to dismounted units
The Marine Corps is about to start experimenting with handheld counter-unmanned aerial systems to outfit deployed Marines, the deputy commandant for combat development and integration said Tuesday at the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space…
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