“We have a saying in Asia…When the elephants fight, the ants get smashed.”

As the US and its allies scramble to stay ahead of China and Russia, a bold proposal for a massive revamp of tech sharing emerges.

The Army will hold five demonstrations this year for the electronic backbone of its future manned aircraft and drones. A forerunner is already entering service.

Screening Chinese students and academics isn’t the solution when less than one percent of them are bad actors. So what will work?

Let’s not get too carried away. “We’ve got to earn our way to cislunar,” Will Roper said with a chuckle. “We’ve got to prove we can do LEO and GEO well.” Still, “this isn’t too far fetched.”

WASHINGTON: The entire US government — not just the Pentagon — needs to wake up to the intertwined threats of cyber warfare and political subversion, Army and National Security Agency officials say. It’ll take a major cultural change to get the whole of government to compete effectively in the grey zone between peace and war.… Keep reading →

The massive Army Materiel Command needs to get a lot lighter on its feet for future conflicts, its four-star chief says.

Even with Australia, one of our closest allies, it can be hard to share data. And the Army’s future war plans require seamless network coordination with the other US services and foreign allies.

Nine years after the Pentagon tried and failed to build laser communications satellites, can the private sector get it done?

How will the US kill enemy hypersonic weapons in future war? The Pentagon’s research chief has some high-tech ideas.