The Defense Department has requested $13.3 billion for intelligence programs in the Fiscal 2015 base budget. That’s a significant drop from the $14.6 billion requested in DOD’s Fiscal 2014 base request. While DOD “determined that releasing this figure does not jeopardize any classified activities,” other budget figures and program details remain classified, according to a March 6 release. DOD will release its Fiscal 2015 overseas contingency operations funding request for military intelligence programs at a later date, states the release.
The Space Force must invest in high-level training based on the lessons learned from an unprecedented level of electronic warfare (EW) used by both Russia and Ukraine in the conflict there, one of the service’s top EW leaders said on April 24. “What we have seen in the Ukraine-Russia conflict…