Editorial

This undated photograph released by the Ukrainian military's Strategic Communications Directorate shows the wreckage of what Kyiv has described as an Iranian Shahed drone downed near Kupiansk, Ukraine.

How to help Kyiv go on a drone offensive

Russia and Iran are planning to build a factory within Russia to produce thousands of Shahed-136 drones.

13 months ago

Global leaders fixate on warfare and economic stability

What can the world expect in 2023? The recent G20 summit might offer some hints.

15 months ago

Commentary

It’s time for Congress to bring back ‘Defense Valley’

Congress must ensure that our warfighters gain the most value possible from government and private sector technology development.

The list is here: Find out how global defense companies performed in FY21

We reveal who’s up and who’s down for 2022, based on fiscal 2021 defense revenue.

19 months ago

What can the world expect in 2022?

The concept of collective defense is gaining momentum in a big way.

2 years ago

The list is here: Find out how global defense companies performed in FY20

We reveal who’s up and who’s down for 2021, based on fiscal 2020 defense revenue.

3 years ago

‘Drone Wars’: New book wonders who will be the next drone superpower

Victory in the next major conflict could very well depend on the effectiveness of drones — from their swarm capabilities to their surveillance and artificial intelligence technologies.

3 years ago

Australia is suffering from a defense information dearth

Defense reporting in a country that regards itself as one of the world’s most stable democracies has became a lot harder.

3 years ago

A fake story about the secretary of defense stole my real byline

It looked like a Defense News story but the truth was this meme was full of lies and intent on spreading misinformation.

3 years ago

We need less jargon, more nuance in 2021

Can we please do better than making acronyms like CJADC2?

3 years ago

Even a pandemic can’t stunt geopolitics

This year's Outlook authors were, understandably, unable to ignore the coronavirus pandemic. But the spread of a disease did not distract them from the affairs of geopolitics.

3 years ago

Shipbuilding: Here today, gone tomorrow

Industry well remembers the 1990s when costs drove the Navy to slash the Seawolf-class sub order from 29 hulls to just three, with no immediate replacement vesse ready to keep the lines hot.

3 years ago

Cadets watch a hand grenade drill, Friday, Aug. 7, 2020, at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y.

When the challenge of coronavirus becomes a catalyst to change

Military leaders for years have said they value agility. Now they will get to watch firsthand which firms are prepared for the long term, who adapts and who merely talks about adapting.

4 years ago

When a global health crisis hits home

At the start, this was a health care crisis certainly, an economic crisis potentially. Now it's clear that no market is unaffected, and I join the rest of the world in wondering where the defense industry will land.

4 years ago

In this June 19, 2017, file photo President Donald Trump, left, and Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft, center, listen as Jeff Bezos, chief executive officer of Amazon, speaks during an American Technology Council roundtable in the State Dinning Room of the White House in Washington.

Take that, Trump: Why Amazon can afford to be defiant

If President Donald Trump figuratively declared war on Amazon chief Jeff Bezos, and by extension Amazon, the approach taken for the JEDI contract award protest the head of Amazon Web Services declaring war on the president.

4 years ago

A new future in global arms sales?

The last few years have seen a subtle transition in how the U.S., as the world’s dominant arms exporter, markets to the world.

4 years ago

Why not Microsoft? A look at the JEDI contract

Conspiracy theories abound around the decision by the Pentagon to award to Microsoft the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract.

4 years ago

One step forward, two back

The latest news on the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle project doesn’t exactly fall neatly within that inspirational vision of a new approach to Army acquisition.

4 years ago

US policy toward Ukraine gets more complicated

Ukraine is in a desperate situation amid the ongoing debate about whether supplying the country with arms could make a tense situation worse.

4 years ago

Defense News offers commentary and opinion that frames the global debate about defense policy, programs and strategy.

Russia and Iran are planning to build a factory within Russia to produce thousands of Shahed-136 drones.

What can the world expect in 2023? The recent G20 summit might offer some hints.

Congress must ensure that our warfighters gain the most value possible from government and private sector technology development.

We reveal who’s up and who’s down for 2022, based on fiscal 2021 defense revenue.

The concept of collective defense is gaining momentum in a big way.

We reveal who’s up and who’s down for 2021, based on fiscal 2020 defense revenue.

Victory in the next major conflict could very well depend on the effectiveness of drones — from their swarm capabilities to their surveillance and artificial intelligence technologies.

Defense reporting in a country that regards itself as one of the world’s most stable democracies has became a lot harder.

It looked like a Defense News story but the truth was this meme was full of lies and intent on spreading misinformation.

Can we please do better than making acronyms like CJADC2?

This year's Outlook authors were, understandably, unable to ignore the coronavirus pandemic. But the spread of a disease did not distract them from the affairs of geopolitics.

Industry well remembers the 1990s when costs drove the Navy to slash the Seawolf-class sub order from 29 hulls to just three, with no immediate replacement vesse ready to keep the lines hot.

Military leaders for years have said they value agility. Now they will get to watch firsthand which firms are prepared for the long term, who adapts and who merely talks about adapting.

At the start, this was a health care crisis certainly, an economic crisis potentially. Now it's clear that no market is unaffected, and I join the rest of the world in wondering where the defense industry will land.

If President Donald Trump figuratively declared war on Amazon chief Jeff Bezos, and by extension Amazon, the approach taken for the JEDI contract award protest the head of Amazon Web Services declaring war on the president.

The last few years have seen a subtle transition in how the U.S., as the world’s dominant arms exporter, markets to the world.

Conspiracy theories abound around the decision by the Pentagon to award to Microsoft the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract.

The latest news on the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle project doesn’t exactly fall neatly within that inspirational vision of a new approach to Army acquisition.

Ukraine is in a desperate situation amid the ongoing debate about whether supplying the country with arms could make a tense situation worse.