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The Pentagon Needs a Real Budget, Not Stop-Gap Solutions, says top DoD official

The Pentagon Needs a Real Budget, Not Stop-Gap Solutions, says top DoD official

CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING — With President Joe Biden and top Republican lawmakers sitting down together this week in the hopes of averting an historic [...] More

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How to Support and Distance Yourself from the President's DoD Budget

OPINION — Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer last week joined the very public chorus of defense experts in questioning whether President Trump’s call [...] More

Boosting U.S. Hypersonic Capabilities

OPINION — The Senate last week added $1.2 billion to the fiscal 2019 Defense Appropriations Bill to increase the Pentagon’s offensive and defensive [...] More

Cutting Cyber Command’s Umbilical Cord to the NSA

Despite the many logistical and operational challenges of a transition, many acknowledge that U.S. Cyber Command must eventually separate from the [...] More

Columbia Class Submarine Improves Versatility, Endurance, and Stealth of the Triad

Among the three legs of the triad, the U.S. Navy’s ballistic missile submarines are the most survivable and the hardest to detect. Their advanced [...] More

How Will America’s Next-Generation ICBM Improve Nuclear Deterrence?

The only remaining U.S. ICBM, the Minuteman III, entered service in 1970. While upgrades have extended the life of the Minuteman III program, the [...] More
The New Nuclear Triad

The New Nuclear Triad

Defense Secretary James Mattis on June 14 gave Congress an update on the 2017 Nuclear Posture Review, saying, “We’re looking at each leg of the triad [...] More

Best Of: Aircraft Carriers: Bigger is Better

Editor's Note: For this year’s Memorial Day feature, The Cipher Brief revisits its coverage examining the future of U.S. aircraft carriers. As I [...] More

Best Of: The Time is Right for Light Carriers

Editor's Note: For this year’s Memorial Day feature, The Cipher Brief revisits its coverage examining the future of U.S. aircraft carriers. Some [...] More
Sizing Up America’s Aircraft Carriers of the Future

Sizing Up America’s Aircraft Carriers of the Future

Editor's Note: For this year’s Memorial Day feature, The Cipher Brief revisits its coverage examining the future of U.S. aircraft carriers. America’s [...] More
Disentangling the NSA and Cyber Command

Disentangling the NSA and Cyber Command

In 2013, former President Barack Obama was close to ending the “dual-hat” leadership of both the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, [...] More

Keeping Cyber Command and NSA Integrated Operationally

There as been discussion of a separation between the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command for a while, only for the change in [...] More

U.S. Air Force: A Return to Full Spectrum Readiness

The core missions of the U.S. Air Force demand that it always be prepared to defend the United States while also being prepared to carry out [...] More