Commentary

A better bridge across the ‘valley of death’

As the Pentagon’s Small Business Strategy makes clear, small companies are key to helping the U.S. ensure its technological superiority.

Give the Defense Innovation Unit a slice of Ukraine funds

Calls to make Ukraine a laboratory and a testing ground for our own weapons and platforms are the right ones.

The Defense Department is finally getting workforce development right

To ensure the success of budding workforce initiatives, we must avoid burdening them with well-intentioned but overreaching bureaucracy.

Warren warns against Pentagon-defense industry revolving door

The next Joint Chiefs chair can set an example by promising not to jump to a lucrative job working on behalf of a defense contractor or foreign adversary.

Opinion

How ‘digital twins’ make defense supply chains more resilient

A combination of enabling technologies and analytic capabilities produce a virtual model of a process, system, or object, informed by real-time data.

Protect the force with timely and robust readiness funding

The safety and readiness of the force is too important to get lost in clever language about decision frameworks and assessment tools.

Marines slam a shrinking amphibious fleet, but the Navy isn’t to blame

The genesis of an amphibious lift shortfall is the Corps’ abandonment of its long-standing requirement for a larger fleet of 38 ships, this Marine says.

Now is the time to integrate Mideast air defenses

New dynamics have created the best opportunity in a generation for progress on Middle East integrated air and missile defenses.

Evacuating Sudan: An amphibious gap and missed opportunity

We may have dodged a bullet this time, but the conflict is nowhere near over.

Is America postured for a fight in the Indo-Pacific?

To achieve the transformative effect needed to bolster deterrence against China, the Biden administration needs to keep its foot on the gas.