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'We need to have a secretary of defense; we've always had one, so I anticipate we will,' Inhofe told the Defense Writers Group, directly contradicting Trump's predilection for acting officials. 'I think he's going to nominate someone.'

Boeing, Lockheed, Dassault Aviation of France, the European Eurofighter consortium, Sweden's Saab, and United Aircraft Corporation of Russia are all jockeying for position for an Indian fighter contract worth $15 billion for 110 planes, and an $8 billion navy program of around 60 aircraft.

It's one of the fundamental questions about China and its future place in the world: does the great civilization still view the world through the traditional lens of the Middle Kingdom or does the world face a new China, ...

CAPITOL HILL: Threatened by hundreds of precision-guided munitions now in the hands of Russia and China, the Navy and Marine Corps continue to search for technologies and tactics that will allow them to operate close to the coastline without unsustainable losses. ...

'We need to have any sensor connect to any shooter at very rapid machine-to-machine speed,' Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson said, 'if we're going to multi-domain operations.' But aye, there's the rub: Are we?

NGA HQ: The low grading noise you could barely hear yesterday was the sound of the tectonic plates of American intelligence shifting as the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and the National Reconnaissance Agency got new directors. The nugget of news is that Vice Adm. ...

'We need to have any sensor connect to any shooter at very rapid machine-to-machine speed,' Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson said, 'if we're going to multi-domain operations.' But aye, there's the rub: Are we?

For Maj. Gen. Cedric Wins, when the organization he's led for 31 months changed its name, its mission, and the four-star headquarters it works for, it finally found the answer to a question it – and the entire Army – have been struggling with for at least 16 years.

France's commitment to a cutting-edge sixth-generation fighter -- working in tandem with drones and long-range sensors -- is a sign of its commitment to deterring Putin's Russia.

'You're not looking at my mission needs,' Brig. Gen. Crall told an audience of contractors. 'If 'there's an app for that,' does the app work when you're disconnected?' Crall asked. 'Does the app work when you haven't had food for three days and you've been cut off?'

'Autonomy may look like an Achilles' heel, and in a lot of ways it is' – but for both sides, DTRA's Nick Wager said. 'I think that's as much opportunity as that is vulnerability. We are good at this… and we can be better than the threat.'

WASHINGTON: The Navy needs to increase both the number and complexity of its wargames, the service's top admiral said Wednesday, citing rapid advances being made by competitors in cyber and information warfare tactics that will muddy and confuse future battlefields. While Adm. ...

The Pentagon has almost completed a study of how to shoot down hypersonic missiles. It's also developing new offensive weapons -- conventional, not nuclear -- whose deployment will become legal with the end of the INF Treaty.

Born as what most thought was a joke in March 2018, President Trump's Space Force had by June become a White House directive to the Pentagon. Since then the Trump Administration has been considering possible variants in the Force's subordination, authorities, size, and budget, ...

Born as what most thought was a joke in March 2018, President Trump's Space Force had by June become a White House directive to the Pentagon. Since then the Trump Administration has been considering possible variants in the Force's subordination, authorities, size, and budget, ...

Every Breaking Defense reader has a good idea how huge the US military's modernization backlog is. But it sometimes takes a deep dive to show how big the problem is. In a new study by the Center for Strategic & International Studies РІР‚' embedded below РІР‚' scholars Gabriel Coll, Andrew Hunter, ...

The best way for America to develop a consensus on what our defense and global security commitments should be is for Congress to have a lengthy series of posture hearings that delve deeply into these issues. ...

Having wasted tens of billions and almost 30 years since the end of the Cold War, the Army is out of time. But after decades of incremental improvements, its existing weapons РІР‚' including the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter that GE's new engine will upgrade РІР‚' are overweight, underpowered, ...

TEL AVIV: With over 80 percent of Israeli's commerce carried by sea and its offshore gas fields crucial to the economy, the country is boosting spending on protecting its shipping lanes, littorals and ports with an array of weapons including underwater capabilities, ...

The Navy may back off its much-publicized call for a 355-ship fleet and look at new options like unmanned vessels, the Chief of Naval Operations said.