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Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), chairman for the Senate Armed Services Committee, announced that the committee would delay marking up the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act due to "uncertainty" in White House budget delivery.
By Lauren C. Williams May 05, 2021 Almost all Defense Department personnel who have sought student loan debt forgiveness through a federal program managed by the Department of Education have been denied -- a trend that, if unchanged, could make it even harder to recruit and retain tech talent. According to a recent Government Accountability Office report, 94% of DOD employees, civilian and military, were denied student loan debt forgiveness through the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, with missing form information or being short on the number of qualifying payments bei...
These systems might have had transformative effects had they survived. Here's What You Need to Know: Only rarely does an isolated technological achievement lend decisive advantage in tactical engagements. Weapons die for all kinds of different reasons. Sometimes they happen at the wrong time, either in the midst of defense austerity, or with the wrong constellation of personnel. Sometimes they fall victim to the byzantine bureaucracy of the Pentagon, or to turf fights between the services. And sometimes they die because they were a bad idea in the first place. For the same reasons, bad def...
By Lauren C. Williams Apr 28, 2021 President Joe Biden has nominated Heidi Shyu, former assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology, to lead the Defense Department's tech investments as undersecretary for research and engineering. Shyu chairs the board for manufacturing company Plasan North America, leads her own consulting firm and has held several executive positions at Raytheon. As the Army's acquisition executive, Shyu worked to streamline the Army's program executive offices, especially around cybersecurity. "Cyber cuts across every single one of my progra...
The war dramatically changed Americans' tolerance for the use of military force. Here's What You Need to Know: Great powers have the luxury of making costly mistakes. Every player of the popular video game Civilization knows to hit the save button before engaging in the risky, stupid invasion of foreign country. In the case of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, it became apparent after the first few months that the war was not working out as its framers had envisioned. The failure to find weapons of mass destruction was only the icing, so to speak, on the disaster of failed reconciliation, state ...