Members of the House Armed Services Committee are concerned about missile warning and defense—from the homeland to Europe and the Indo-Pacific and extending into space. Lawmakers on the panel agreed to a half dozen or so amendments pressing the Pentagon for more information and analysis on ...
Missile Warning & Defense
In its annual review of significant Pentagon weapons programs, the Government Accountability Office found issues with two high-profile Space Force programs: one the service sees as a model of its path forward and another that may end up being a product of the past.
A new report from a study group organized by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory hopes to shape a crucial emerging debate in Washington: how to manage two nuclear near-peers for the first time in U.S. history. The study argues the U.S. should consider increasing the ...
The U.S. will not share key data on its nuclear arsenal with Russia after Moscow refused to do the same with its own strategic forces, Biden administration officials said March 28—yet another blow to the New START agreement. The move marks the first time the ...
As Pentagon shifts its focus to the Pacific, the Department of Defense will undertake sweeping efforts to improve the air and missile defenses on Guam, a critical U.S. military hub in the western Pacific. Overall the DOD plans to invest $1.5 billion in fiscal 2024 ...
NORAD boss Gen. Glen VanHerck stressed the need for over-the-horizon radars and other capabilities to bring homeland defense in line with threats from Russia and China.
The nation’s smallest military branch would see one of the largest funding increases based on percentage under President Joe Biden’s 2024 budget request.
Air Force and Space Force leaders are thinking long and hard about the need to better defend U.S. forward-deployed forces and allies in a world awash in cruise and ballistic missiles, armed drones, and potential adversaries increasingly emboldened to use them, they said March 7 ...
After a Chinese high-altitude spy balloon traversed the United States in late January and early February, much of the public spotlight focused on Gen. Glen D. VanHerck, the head of U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). But for VanHerck ...