Defense Secretary Mark Esper acknowledged that heavy government spending on anti-Coronavirus efforts could suppress defense spending in coming years, and said the Pentagon will prioritize modernization programs over legacy systems if the budget flattens. There are "dozens" of legacy programs Esper said he would be ...
China
The Pentagon and the primes step up in the face of the pandemic.
It's time to stop giving China a helping hand.
Pacific Air Forces has been fine-tuning the Agile Combat Employment concept in training exercises for years, but the new coronavirus outbreak has required real-world execution. As the pandemic continues to spread across the globe, PACAF has cut back on its overall flying engagements. Some exercises ...
As the defense budget flattens, the other services may have to rethink their pursuit of long-range fires, purely because duplication is only a good thing when it's affordable, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein said during an online Mitchell Institute event April 1. ...
Pentagon leaders provide a first look at plans for testing and producing future hypersonic weapons.
An exclusive interview with the PACAF Commander days before his nomination to be the next Air Force Chief of Staff.
Japan’s Draughon Range is now among the most sophisticated training areas in the world.
This is the era of great power competition, and the means of competition are growing increasingly clear and diverse.
USAF bolsters soft power projection with an unambiguous show of military might—the BUFF.
Foreign countries are boosting their investments in “gray zone” weapons that can confuse and disable satellites, are harder to attribute to a specific attacker, and fall below the level of overt war, posing regulatory challenges, according to a new report from the Center for Strategic ...
Massive spending to combat the coronavirus pandemic may suppress defense spending and therefore defense stock prices, which have tanked to the tune of more than 30 percent in the last month, according to defense and aerospace analyst Byron Callan of Capital Alpha. Congress may also ...
