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By Charlie Breeding Jan 05, 2021 The Defense Department’s Data Strategy delivers a clear mandate: Data is a strategic asset that will be operationalized to provide a lethal and effective Joint Force. With this new mandate in hand, the next big question becomes: How do agencies make the change? By focusing on just 20% of the objective -- DOD Data Strategy Sections 2.2.4 (Data Collection) and 4.3 (Make Data Understandable) -- DOD could produce more than 80% of the intended objective resu...

But it was never built.  Heres What You Need to Remember: What if we had a stealthy strike bomber that could take off from aircraft carriers? In the mid-1980s, the Navy needed a replacement for the beloved-but-venerable A-6 Intruder.  Building on expectations about the progress of stealth technology, McDonnell Douglas developed the A-12 Avenger, a subsonic “flying wing” bomber that visually resembled a miniature B-2 Spirit. Combining stealth with the flexibility of carrier ops, the A-...

By   Mackenzie Eaglen and John Ferrari on December 17, 2020 at 7:01 AM Soldiers test the latest, ruggedized version of the IVAS targeting goggles at Fort Picket in October. While Congress cut funding for IVAS, one of the most innovative programs in Army history, they would be wise to look at how and where this revolutionary program succeeded in spite of inefficiencies and bureaucracy. This revolutionary system is called the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) and it can propel DoD ...

Organization solely dedicated to that. thats important. >> whoever gets there first, will have unmatched ability on the battle field for years to come. hyper sonics or robotics and artificial intelligence. >> the goal to establish dominance in cutting edge war fighting technology, especially in cyberspace before the chinese and russians do. >> if we just sit back and dont react we will lose our technological superiors, the chinese are right. with the chinese you have to protect what you have bec...

Been giving the u.s. politicians and the american people the facts that they need to make an informed judgment on the war. he says that the, it has been going worse than what the official statements have been. so he came back from his latest deployment, he has been to afghanistan twice now in combat deployments and felt morally compelled to speak out. so he wrote the piece that we published in the armed forces journal most recent issue. jenna: did you feel morally compelled to publish it? >> i t...