National Defense

2 days ago | nationaldefensemagazine.org | Stew Magnuson

— Less than a year after the Army released a digital engineering policy directive, the official in charge of the initiative said the service is making great progress using new techniques to shave down acquisition timelines.The digital engineering policy directive was released in May 2024.David Gorsich, chief scientist at the Army’s Ground Vehicle Systems Center, told National Defense in early March that the past 10 months have seen the service identify pathfinder programs, set up common...

3 days ago | nationaldefensemagazine.org | Stew Magnuson

LILLESTRØM, Norway — Undersea cables have been transmitting communications since the 1850s, but the now ubiquitous technology is grabbing headlines as NATO nations accuse bad actors of sabotaging fiber-optic lines in the Baltic Sea.

4 days ago | nationaldefensemagazine.org | Stew Magnuson

WARREN, Michigan — Twelve soldiers on loan from the Army’s Fourth Infantry Division based in Fort Carson, Colorado, sat in four pods, each simulating an XM30 fighting vehicle. In the real world, they were at the Detroit Arsenal conducting experiments. In the virtual world, they were making their way to an objective in the land of Pinelandia, a stand-in for some Western European nation where troops may find themselves fighting someday.

1 week ago | nationaldefensemagazine.org | Allyson Park

TAMPA, Florida — Special Operations Command is developing a collaborative special reconnaissance ecosystem that will improve its integration into Joint Force operations, a command official said May 8. The goal is to build a “reliable and resilient network architecture” that can “push data across small team formations all the way up to ...

1 week ago | nationaldefensemagazine.org | Scott Gourley

JUST IN: New Joint Chiefs Chairman Calls for Increased U.S., Allied CollaborationTAMPA, Florida — In his closing address at the SOF Week conference, Air Force Gen. John Caine, newly confirmed as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, offered his perspectives on special operations and the role they play in the integration of defense capabilities. “I'm three weeks in my job, so I'm still figuring this out,” Caine said.