Barry Rosenberg

Washington, D.C.

Contributing Editor at Breaking Defense

Expert in cyber, data analytics, risk & governance, software engineering, and strategy & transformation for defense, federal, finance, and commercial markets.

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Articles

Addressing risk and intellectual property rights in the FLRAA supply chain

Jan 31, 2025 | breakingdefense.com | Barry Rosenberg

Risk is a program killer, most recently leading to the demise of the Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft that planned for a new platform in addition to a greenfield engine.
Preparing the industrial base for when the Army’s FLRAA tiltrotor is built at scale

Dec 19, 2024 | breakingdefense.com | Barry Rosenberg

With the Future Long Range Attack Aircraft (FLRAA), the Army is introducing a new developmental aircraft type for the first time in decades. That creates myriad challenges for not only the prime contractor but for individual supply chains associated with the aircraft, the powerplants, and the digital backbone. Breaking Defense discussed the role of the industrial base in Future Vertical Lift with FLRAA Project Manager Col. Jeffrey Poquette.
Autonomy changes everything about combat engineering

Dec 18, 2024 | breakingdefense.com | Barry Rosenberg

Combat engineering tasks are a significantly dangerous set of activities. Combat engineers, or “sappers” as they’re called, clear the battlefield ahead using explosives and machines with front-end equipment so maneuver forces can travel forward unhindered. For countermobility, their mission is to slow down opposing land forces with terrain-based effects like Dragon’s teeth.
Satellite communications: A roadmap for securing tactical and strategic missions

Nov 13, 2024 | breakingdefense.com | Barry Rosenberg

The path to Nirvana has many stages in certain religions, not unlike some programs in the defense world such as satellite communications where construction of a resilient space architecture across orbits will require a staged expansion over many years.
Small UAS: accelerating situational awareness on every level

Oct 18, 2024 | breakingdefense.com | Barry Rosenberg

Innovation in small unmanned aircraft systems from first-person-view quadcopters to computer vision is accelerating the Observe, Orient, Decide and Act (OODA) loop. Download to learn about how it’s being accomplished.
An Army helicopter takes on new roles, including as a FLRAA testbed

Oct 8, 2024 | breakingdefense.com | Barry Rosenberg

It’s fair to say that with 4,000 UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters flying worldwide, the next important role for the utility helicopter is going to be interoperability with the U.S. Army’s newest aircraft type coming into the fleet – the Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA).
Changing the battlefield with quadcopters and fixed-wing VTOLS

Sep 10, 2024 | breakingdefense.com | Barry Rosenberg

On the list of heretofore unseen impacts of the Ukraine war are the dominance of small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) at the tactical level. For brigades, regiments and below, Group 1 and 2 sUAS in the form of quadcopters and fixed-wing vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft are already disrupting the way of war.
Army plans for Black Hawk to be Future Vertical Lift testbed for launched effects and autonomy

Aug 14, 2024 | breakingdefense.com | Barry Rosenberg

Rotary wing aircraft have dominated Army fleets since the introduction of its first helicopter in 1944, the Sikorsky R-4. They continue to do so today in the attack realm through the AH-64 Apache, in heavy lift with the CH-47 Chinook, and in utility/transport with the UH-60 Black Hawk and UH-72A Lakota. To those fleets, the Army is now adding a tiltrotor in the form of the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft, which is scheduled for low-rate initial production in 2028 and initial fielding in 2030.
The cybersecurity plan for what to do when adversaries breach the network

Aug 1, 2024 | breakingdefense.com | Barry Rosenberg

Defending defense networks from cyberattack has often meant erecting firewalls — the digital version of what militaries have done time immemorial by building fortifications and defending borders and boundaries. Those walls, however, are invariably breached, in the same way that adversaries have and continue to infiltrate networks to steal data and disrupt command, control, and communications.
How Tactical Units Are Filling Their Need for ISR and FPV

Jul 25, 2024 | realcleardefense.com | Barry Rosenberg

How Tactical Units Are Filling Their Need for ISR and FPV