Pentagon

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter will unveil the Defense Department’s new cyber strategy during a presentation Thursday at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., according to a senior defense official. Carter […]

The House Armed Services Committee’s subcommittee on readiness has proposed eliminating a statute that Defense Department officials have said bogs down the acquisition process. The committee’s National Defense Authorization Act […]

The House Armed Service Committee kicked off the National Defense Authorization Act markup process on April 21, with the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities the first to issue its […]

As the House Armed Services Committee prepares to roll out the first subcommittee markups of the National Defense Authorization Act later this afternoon, HASC chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) said the […]

U.S. Strategic Command’s (USSTRATCOM) Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC) is planning to bring in a body of commercial satellite industry officials in the coming months to tighten relations between government […]

The Pentagon has set up a senior-level oversight panel to help the U.S. military keep its edge in electronic warfare (EW). A one-page memorandum signed by Deputy Defense Secretary Robert […]

For the first time since Better Buying Power was launched in 2010, spurring innovative new technology is one of the bedrocks of the strategy. Better Buying Power 3.0, the newest […]

The Pentagon rolled out its Better Buying Power 3.0 implementation guidelines April 9. Like previous iterations, BBP 3.0 stresses affordability, but it also adds an emphasis on innovation. The military’s […]

The United States is on the “wrong side” of the ballistic missile defense (BMD) cost curve because it shoots down inexpensive rockets with very expensive ones, according to a key […]

Days after a scathing report deemed the Sea-based X-band radar a flop, the deputy director of the Missile Defense Agency came to the defense of the platform on April 7, […]