The United States has long recognized the importance of supporting and sustaining an advanced defense industrial base for maintaining global technological superiority.

Recent events in Niger have called attention to the role of Congress in overseeing military deployments outside areas of active hostilities. As the Senate Foreign Relations Committee prepares to consider the value of updating or even replacing the 2001 Authorization for the...

Criticism of President Donald Trump reached a new amplitude recently over a call he made to the widow of a fallen U.S. soldier. Reportedly, the president told Myeshia Johnson that her husband, Sergeant La David Johnson, “knew what he was signing up for.” Set aside Gold...

On September 8, President Trump signed into law H.R. 601, the “Continuing Appropriations Act, 2018 and Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief Requirements Act, 2017.” The bill addresses...

As the Senate Foreign Relations Committee holds its hearing today on U.S. security assistance to foreign partners—only the committee’s second hearing on the topic...

In an increasingly competitive security environment, working together with allies and partners to achieve common security goals has become the preferred approach for the United States. Yet, growing public and U.S. leaders’ skepticism of the return on investment for...

And, you know, this is going to require a pretty good increase in Air Force funding, in their acquisition funding for major modernization programs. If they don’t get extra funding, if they’re not able to increase funding as they planned, they’re going to have to make...

The Air Force is on the cusp of beginning a new major defense acquisition program (MDAP) to replace the ground-based leg of the nuclear triad.

On Tuesday (August 1), the Department of Defense (DoD) submitted a report to Congress outlining its plans for realigning the organizational structure of the defense...

Major overhauls may indeed be necessary to optimize outcomes in our defense acquisition system. However, if we’re not using all of the authorities at our disposal now, what evidence do we have that such reorganizations will result in anything more than a reconstitution of...

If there were ever a test case for the Trump approach to trade, it would be the defense sector, the part of our economy that delivers the bulk of the capabilities that protect our national security. Some of the administration’s initial defense policies, such as its Buy...

To say the Department of Defense (DoD) gets bad press regarding its acquisition system is like saying the sun rises in the east. It’s frankly an easy target for those looking to score political points or clicks on websites. So, it’s worth distinguishing reality from...