Global leaders fixate on warfare and economic stability
What can the world expect in 2023? The recent G20 summit might offer some hints.
Commentary
It’s time for Congress to bring back ‘Defense Valley’
Congress must ensure that our warfighters gain the most value possible from government and private sector technology development.
The list is here: Find out how global defense companies performed in FY21
We reveal who’s up and who’s down for 2022, based on fiscal 2021 defense revenue.
What can the world expect in 2022?
The concept of collective defense is gaining momentum in a big way.
The list is here: Find out how global defense companies performed in FY20
We reveal who’s up and who’s down for 2021, based on fiscal 2020 defense revenue.
‘Drone Wars’: New book wonders who will be the next drone superpower
Victory in the next major conflict could very well depend on the effectiveness of drones — from their swarm capabilities to their surveillance and artificial intelligence technologies.
Australia is suffering from a defense information dearth
Defense reporting in a country that regards itself as one of the world’s most stable democracies has became a lot harder.
A fake story about the secretary of defense stole my real byline
It looked like a Defense News story but the truth was this meme was full of lies and intent on spreading misinformation.
We need less jargon, more nuance in 2021
Can we please do better than making acronyms like CJADC2?
Even a pandemic can’t stunt geopolitics
This year's Outlook authors were, understandably, unable to ignore the coronavirus pandemic. But the spread of a disease did not distract them from the affairs of geopolitics.
Shipbuilding: Here today, gone tomorrow
Industry well remembers the 1990s when costs drove the Navy to slash the Seawolf-class sub order from 29 hulls to just three, with no immediate replacement vesse ready to keep the lines hot.
When the challenge of coronavirus becomes a catalyst to change
Military leaders for years have said they value agility. Now they will get to watch firsthand which firms are prepared for the long term, who adapts and who merely talks about adapting.
When a global health crisis hits home
At the start, this was a health care crisis certainly, an economic crisis potentially. Now it's clear that no market is unaffected, and I join the rest of the world in wondering where the defense industry will land.
Take that, Trump: Why Amazon can afford to be defiant
If President Donald Trump figuratively declared war on Amazon chief Jeff Bezos, and by extension Amazon, the approach taken for the JEDI contract award protest the head of Amazon Web Services declaring war on the president.
A new future in global arms sales?
The last few years have seen a subtle transition in how the U.S., as the world’s dominant arms exporter, markets to the world.
Why not Microsoft? A look at the JEDI contract
Conspiracy theories abound around the decision by the Pentagon to award to Microsoft the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract.
One step forward, two back
The latest news on the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle project doesn’t exactly fall neatly within that inspirational vision of a new approach to Army acquisition.
