Masao Dahlgren in this op-ed offers reasons why venture capitalists and the Pentagon aren't yet on the same page, and calls for them to work together so that both can reap the benefits.
“I share your commitment to maintaining the public’s trust in the Department of Defense,” Douglas Schmidt, the new director of operational test and evaluation, said in the letter to Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
“There was a debate which ... about so-called ‘reveal, conceal’ [and] how much detail we want to put out,” said Under Secretary of Defense Comptroller Mike McCord. "We're sort of leaning on the side of not disclosing the details..."
“We kind of depend on having [that] ‘24 bill finish and finish in a way that looks a lot like what we asked for. Otherwise, we're going to have to go back to the drawing board on a couple of fronts,” said a senior defense official.
In this op-ed, William C. Greenwalt argues that American-made steel is not as imperative to the defense industry as it once was.
The report offers up a detailed account of the high cost the US is likely to pay for “allowing Russia to win” in Ukraine, largely based around the Pentagon forced into bolstering defense and deterrence against a “renewed” Russian threat.
The Pentagon announced that Mara Karlin, performing the duties of deputy undersecretary of defense for policy, is departing her job next week for a return to academia.
The nation's top military officials, lawmakers and experts gathered for this year's event to talk China, Ukraine, Israel, AI and a host of other national security topics.
Like last year, 18 standalone audits received a failing grade.
“What we'd really like to see is for them to be more transparent about their nuclear buildup, and also to see some greater willingness on their part to discuss these strategic stability and risk reduction issues with us,” a senior US defense official said.
“We have concluded that we're not able to change the production priorities [for Taiwan]. That would be an easy answer but unfortunately there are no easy answers,” senior State Department official Mira Resnick told Breaking Defense.
A senior US official said it would be "foolish" to underestimate the number of countries developing defensive or offensive bioprograms.
United States defense leaders can leverage private sector solutions to maintain the country’s position in the Indo-Pacific region and leap ahead of its peer competitors in hypersonic test and development.
With both versions of the NDAA complete, congressional leadership must now pick conferees for each chamber to sort out two vastly different defense policy bills.
Chollet is currently working in the State Department but has previous experience inside the Pentagon and the White House.