by | May 7, 2024 | Security
The House Financial Services Committee’s hearing this week on the reauthorization of the Defense Production Act is timely and important. The DPA is an essential tool for national security that was little known prior to COVID-19. Its use during the pandemic helped the...
by | May 7, 2024 | Security
ORLANDO — Overly restrictive handling of U.S. intelligence and battlefield insights that boxes out allied forces is a failing move, according to the leader of Space Operations Command. The Department of Defense and the intelligence community increasingly view a...
by | May 7, 2024 | Security
WARSAW, Poland — Senior Lockheed Martin officials said they expect the first F-35 warplanes for Poland to leave the production plant in Fort Worth, Texas, in the coming months, a time line unaffected by the company’s problems with a major upgrade for the aircraft...
by | May 7, 2024 | Security
Call it a tale of two China strategies. The U.S. Air Force and Navy are each preparing for a potential fight in the Pacific against China, perhaps in the next couple of years, under the guidance of the same National Defense Strategy. But this uncertain timing overlaps...
by | May 7, 2024 | Security
At a summit near San Francisco in November, the leaders of America and China turned to the biggest threat to their relationship. The topic was Taiwan, which China’s government considers part of its rightful territory and has threatened to take by force. When it came...
by | May 6, 2024 | Security
It has been almost a year since the Indian government arrested Vivek Raghuvanshi, a longtime freelancer journalist with Defense News, with officials having declined to provide information about his safety, legal representation and allegations. The government of Prime...
by | May 6, 2024 | Security
ORLANDO — The U.S. is gaining valuable insights about the performance of its technologies amid electronic interference as Ukrainian troops use them on the front lines, according to one official. Washington and other governments have committed billions of dollars of...
by | May 6, 2024 | Security
PARIS — More than 100 Ukrainian and European defense firms gathered in Brussels on Monday to discuss direct investment in Ukraine’s defense industry as well as setting up local production to help the country fight off Russia’s invasion. Ukraine’s weapon-production...
by | May 6, 2024 | Security
MILAN — Amid a rush within NATO to rally around next-generation combat aircraft, new alliance member Sweden is taking a pause to assess what’s next for its lineage as a warplane-producing country. The Nordic state in 2022 suspended its flirtation with one of Europe’s...
by | May 4, 2024 | Security
The U.S. Air Force wants to have its Integrated Capabilities Command up and running by the end of 2024, the service’s chief of staff told reporters Thursday. The command is a central pillar of a vast reorganization the service announced in February. This revamp, the...
