Audrey Decker, Defense One The Pentagon has stopped accepting newly built stealth fighters from Lockheed until tech trials are finished.

Theresa Hitchens, Breaking Defense The plan is to grant two contractors Other Transaction Authority awards to design and build the “Alpha” variant of SDA’s Tranche 2 Transport Layer…

C. Parton, FT The People’s Liberation Army is an explicitly political force — and the ultimate guarantor of the party’s hold on power

Phillips P. O’Brien, Foreign Affairs How a Dated Concept Distorts Geopolitics
In the lead-up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, most Western analysts saw Moscow as a great power and…

Z. Szewczyk, MWI Military leaders have sought hard data to drive their decisions for decades, perhaps most famously beginning with Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara’s so-called Whiz Kids…

Jeff Schogol, Task & Purpose Choosing a new fitness test has become the Army’s new forever war.
The Army Combat Fitness Test, or AFCT, has undergone a never-ending series of changes…

Kris Osborn, Warrior Maven It may almost too space age to be true, the idea of a manned or unmanned spy plane operating at “hypersonic” speeds … such a platform is likely soon to exist,…

L. Thompson, Forbes On May 18, the U.S. Air Force issued a classified solicitation to industry requesting proposals for its Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) aircraft. The aircraft is…