So here’s an interesting bit of defense technology related info presented by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments at a press conference to discuss defense spending yesterday. It’s a breakdown of just how much all those weapons programs that were cancelled in the last decade cost us: Future Combat Systems (FCS) $18.1B Comanche helicopter […]
From the monthly archives:
July 2011
If the Pentagon holds to its current plans to chop hundreds billions of dollars from defense spending over the next decade the U.S. Air Force may need to rethink it’s acquisition plans according to Todd Harrison defense budget specialist at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, an influential DC think tank. The Defense Department […]
By Kevin Coleman — Defense Tech cyberwarfare correspondent Last week, on July 14, the U.S. Department of Defense released the long awaited public version of its Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace. DoD was able to summarize its stratagems into five initiatives within the thirteen-page document. Reviews, acknowledgements and criticisms of the document are already beginning […]
Hope you guys are enjoying your weekend so far. Check out this DT video tour of one of the world’s most commonly used heavy airlifters; the Soviet-designed and Ukranian-built Antonov An-124 Ruslan. The civil-operated An-124s are frequently chartered by the Pentagon to transport heavy military equipment like tanks and helicopters into war zones when the […]
Going into what appears to so far be a mercifully cool (high-70s) Friday afternoon here in Washington, I had to point out this piece of historic news: Just yesterday the Air Force received its first production model F-35 Lightinng II Joint Strike Fighter to fly in a non-testing role. This move marks the beginning of the […]
