A highly regarded news source for defense professionals in government and industry, National Defense offers insight and analysis on defense programs, policy, business, science and technology. Special reports by expert journalists focus on defense budgets, military tactics, doctrine and strategy.

A highly regarded news source for defense professionals in government and industry, National Defense offers insight and analysis on defense programs, policy, business, science and technology. Special reports by expert journalists focus on defense budgets, military tactics, doctrine and strategy.

Oct 27, 2022 · The Pentagon’s new National Defense Strategy — which was released to the public Oct. 27 — prioritizes the procurement of high-end capabilities that can deter and defeat China and other U.S. adversaries, but questions remain about the industrial base’s ability to meet the demand for current and future weapons.

Nov 25, 2024 · Privately, Canadians at the conference — many of them adherents to the belief that the world was growing more dangerous and that Canada needed a strong military — expressed doubts to National Defense that the nation would ever reach the 2 …

Dec 6, 2024 · The newly released unclassified interim report produced by the Subcommittee on the Central Intelligence Agency of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has highlighted critical concerns about the nexus between …

Here are some transformative remedies essential for cultivat-ing such an ecosystem within the Defense Department. The first remedy, “commercializa-tion for agility,” will help broaden the landscape of experimentation.

DIU launched the Blue UAS pro-gram in 2020 to vet and certify small commercial drones and compo-nents — cameras, radars, gimbals, munitions attachments — that the Defense Department can buy off the shelf and deploy.

National Defense investigates the ways AI is changing how the Pentagon does business. Middle East Drone Defense base that is struggling to meet current production targets, let alone meet the ambitious AUKUS goals of sending nuclear-powered subs down under.

A highly regarded news source for defense professionals in government and industry, National Defense offers insight and analysis on defense programs, policy, business, science and technology. Special reports by expert journalists focus on defense budgets, military tactics, doctrine and strategy.

Oct 14, 2024 · The United States announced Oct. 13 it will deploy a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense battery to Israel to bolster defenses there, further stressing Army air and missile defense forces.