Defense Watch

Tight HASC Races. Several key Democrats on the House Armed Services Committee remain in tight races heading into the midterm elections on November 8. Rep. Elaine Luria (D-Va.), a Navy […]

Falcon Heavy Launch. The U.S. Space Force is to launch its USSF-44 classified mission by Nov. 1 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. The last Falcon Heavy launch for the […]

Long-Term Transformation. Lockheed Martin is undergoing a “multi-billion dollar, seven-year, company-wide” effort to transform its business to help fuel its 21st Century Warfighting concept, James Taiclet, the company’s chairman, president […]

Senate NDAA. The Senate on October 11 officially opened debate on the fiscal year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act. While the upper chamber is not set to vote on the […]

AUSA 2022. The Association of the United States Army’s annual conference is next week in Washington, D.C. The event is set to gather over 33,000 attendees and more than 650 […]

Hypersonic Testing. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) wants to amend the Senate’s draft fiscal 2023 defense authorization bill to create a testing area for military and civil supersonic and hypersonic aircraft. […]

HACM Partnership. Under the more than $985 million contract the U.S. Air Force awarded to Raytheon Technologies last week for the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile (HACM), Northrop Grumman is to […]

Wargame Ship Size. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday this week said naval wargames analysis is pushing the service to have fewer large surface combatants like destroyers  and more […]

Quantum Resistance. The National Security Agency last Wednesday released its second round of requirements for algorithms to assist owners, operators and vendors of national security systems owners in the transition […]

DISA Data Strategy. DISA said on Aug. 30 it has released its new Data Strategy Implementation Plan (IPlan) detailing how the office will go about improving its data integration and […]