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New Reports Reveal Years of Unaddressed Osprey Safety Risks

New Reports Reveal Years of Unaddressed Osprey Safety Risks

DEEP DIVE — It is one of the most lauded defense developments in recent decades, providing preeminent capability to U.S. military personnel [...] More

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The Drone Series: Expanding Horizons for Drone Technology

The Drone Series: Expanding Horizons for Drone Technology

EXPERT PERSPECTIVE: Superlatives have been piling up about a weapon of war that’s been around for decades, but has taken on new prominence across the [...] More

What the 2030 Kill Chain Looks Like

OPINION — On July 1, one month before his scheduled retirement, Air Force Chief of Staff General David L. Goldfein gave a vivid description of [...] More

A New Call to Arms for Drone Technology

OPINION — The Senate Armed Services Committee has recognized the vulnerabilities of today’s unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and called on the Defense [...] More

Shaping the Air Force's Future Battlespace

“My personal view is, the first shots of the future fight will be either in the cyber domain or — maybe it's an ‘and’ — and the space domain. And so [...] More

F-35 Procurement Strategy Needs a Reboot

Lockheed Martin says it will continue to bring down the hourly costs of operating the F-35 fighter jet, while continuing to address the problems that [...] More

Training the Next Field of Space Warriors

The U.S. is trying to quickly gear up the nation’s ability to fight in space and our best clues into just how they're planning to do it, are coming [...] More

SOCOM's Discipline and Ethics on the Radar

The Cipher Brief’s new Friday column Cipher Select, is laser-focused on bringing you a range of different perspectives on special operations issues [...] More

China on Space: America, Hold My Beer

President Donald Trump recently 're-opened' the debate on the creation of an entity to manage our national security space assets. Based on his [...] More

Plotting a Space (Force) Time Continuum

President Donald Trump’s recent announcement to the National Space Council that he is asking the Pentagon to create a new ‘Space Force’ caught many [...] More

Locked Doors, Open Windows: Failures in Guarding Private Sector Information

Not a day goes by that Americans don't wake to the news of a new cyber intrusion affecting private sector or government networks, whether major cyber [...] More

Next-Gen Drones: Making War Easier for Dictators & Terrorists

Next-Gen Drones: Making War Easier for Dictators & Terrorists

The introduction of armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) permanently altered the modern battlefield. New technological advances in drone technology [...] More

Wrestling with Nukes, Not Enough Troops & Too Much CO2

While most American news outlets last week focused on sexual harassment, tax reform and President Donald Trump’s red-carpet trip to the Far East, the [...] More