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In an F-35 Funding Fight, Musk Will Need to Win Over a Skeptical Congress and Trump
Just weeks after President-elect Donald Trump tasked Elon Musk with cutting government spending, the SpaceX CEO criticized the Pentagon's most expensive weapons program: the F...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Elon Musk Says Human-Piloted Fighter Jets like the F-35 Are Obsolete. Drone Tech Can’t Yet Fill the Gap.
Drones are changing war in ways we never thought possible, but are we to the point where uncrewed systems can replace top-dollar weapons like the F-35 stealth fighter? Promine...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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As Middle East Crisis Grinds On, Pentagon Shows Signs of Strain
The open-ended crisis in the Middle East has begun to squeeze the Pentagon, fueling unease over the U.S. military’s ability to balance imminent threats to American interests t...
By Becca Wasser
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Top Former Defense Officials Release New Report on Accelerating DoD Innovation
Washington, September 25, 2024 – Today, the Center for a New American Security released a new report, Integration for Innovation: A Report of the CNAS Defense Technology Task ...
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China’s Shipyards Are Ready for a Protracted War. America’s Aren’t.
“The scale [of China’s shipbuilding] is just almost hard to fathom,” said Thomas Shugart, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security whose research foc...
By Tom Shugart
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Congress Asks Department of the Air Force for 2050 Force Design Plan. What Will It Mean?
The department’s ongoing re-optimization review, implemented by Secretary Frank Kendall this fall, will likely inform that force design, which will be due by Aug. 31, 2024. “T...
By Becca Wasser & Hannah Dennis
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Defense Innovation Unit to Host Replicator Technology Summit
Andrew Metrick, a defense fellow at the Center for a New American Security, said Replicator’s goal of increasing the scale at which the department fields innovative capability...
By Andrew Metrick
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Munitions put into focus as stockpiles dwindle
“The defence industry is so consolidated that it can’t very quickly expand to support a greater demand,” warns Stacie Pettyjohn, director of the defence programme at the Cente...
By Stacie Pettyjohn & Hannah Dennis
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The West Again Learns That War Needs Industry
Agility is increasingly vital in manufacturing, too. The F-35, America’s newest jet fighter, is a marvel of networked computers that can hover and fly supersonic. But much of ...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Lockheed Martin Looks to Boost LRASM Production as US Rushes to Buy Anti-Ship Weapons
“I think one of the most glaring gaps in our portfolio is anti-ship weapons, especially air-launched ones, and LRASMs are particularly important since it gives you the ability...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Situation Report: DoD’s Christmas wish list
“You have items that are too vague to be useful,” Becca Wasser, a senior fellow and head of the Gaming Lab at the Center for a New American Security, said in a text message.Na...
By Becca Wasser
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BUDGET 2024: Flat Army Request Signals Focus on Indo-Pacific Capabilities
The significant investments into missiles — particularly long-range fires capabilities — and air and missile defense systems underscore the Army’s vision for “future Pacific o...
By Andrew Metrick
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Biden Budget Expected to Stiff the Indo-Pacific
“We’re really bad about pouring concrete in the Indo-Pacific,” said Becca Wasser, a senior fellow and lead of the gaming lab at the Center for a New American Security, a Washi...
By Becca Wasser
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Russia’s War on Ukraine, China’s Rise Expose US Military Failings
At the nub of the problem is the Pentagon’s planning, programming, budgeting and execution process, known as PPBE. It controls the resources that make weapons programs happen,...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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How arming Ukraine is stretching the US defense industry
“The Ukraine conflict has been an important wake-up call for decision makers at the Pentagon,” says Martijn Rasser, director of technology and national security at the Center ...
By Martijn Rasser & Stacie Pettyjohn