Patrick Tucker

1 week ago | defenseone.com | Ben Watson |Patrick Tucker

A Russian ballistic missile attack killed nearly three dozen civilians and injured more than 115 others in northeastern Ukraine’s Sumy City early Sunday.

1 week ago | washingtontechnology.com | Patrick Tucker |Jennifer Hlad

Calls to overhaul the Pentagon’s buying process go back decades—to the Revolutionary War, one former congressman joked—from defense secretaries from to to Robert Gates to . An executive order signed late Wednesday evening is the latest, perhaps the most ambitious—and just maybe, the one with the best chance for success.

1 week ago | defenseone.com | Patrick Tucker |Jennifer Hlad

The new executive order takes steps to address that, calling for the incentivization of risk-taking and innovation by the defense acquisition workforce. But while changing the Pentagon’s culture to accept more risk is necessary for change, there are other issues involved, former DIU head Mike Brown told Defense One in February. “The three things that are interconnected in acquisition are requirements, acquisition, and budgeting.

3 weeks ago | defenseone.com | Patrick Tucker

Insights & Reports April 3, 2025 05:18 PM ET Quantum Technology The field of quantum computing, like qubits themselves, exists in a state of indeterminacy, with multiple companies making big claims about wildly different approaches. On Thursday, DARPA—the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency—launched its latest effort to sort practical approaches from chimeras, handing contracts to 15 companies that will attempt to benchmark their work.

3 weeks ago | defenseone.com | Patrick Tucker

One difficult-to-replace U.S. capability is satellite-based intelligence; the ability to see where Russians are staging missile and other attacks has proven essential to Ukraine’s defense. An independent defense industry analyst from the United States said it is also extremely unlikely that Europe would be able to develop its own space-based satellite capability by 2030. Europe is also in the midst of a demographic crisis of shrinking populations.