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What Happens When GPS Disappears? Mission Perspectives
August 13, 2026

What Happens When GPS Disappears?

GPS denial is no longer a niche electronic-warfare problem. Positioning, navigation, and timing underpin maneuver, precision fires, networks, autonomous systems, logistics, sensors, and command systems. The Army is already fielding resilient PNT systems while developing modular alternatives, vision-aided navigation, and other non-GPS sources. DARPA is pushing tactical optical clocks that can preserve GPS-grade timing for extended periods without satellite timing.…
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The Defense Workforce Is Becoming a Weapons System Thought Leadership
August 13, 2026

The Defense Workforce Is Becoming a Weapons System

America can appropriate money for shipyards, munitions plants, AI infrastructure, cyber programs, and advanced manufacturing faster than it can create the experienced people required to operate them. Across the defense enterprise, workforce capacity is becoming a readiness variable: skilled trades, engineering, cyber, data, acquisition, logistics, and institutional knowledge increasingly determine whether physical and digital investments translate into usable military capability.…
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U.S. military vehicles and armored equipment loading onto a strategic sealift ship at a port during large-scale logistics operations
The War Does Not Start at the Port: America’s Strategic Sealift Problem Mission Perspectives
August 13, 2026

The War Does Not Start at the Port: America’s Strategic Sealift Problem

America’s ability to project combat power overseas depends on far more than the number of ships in the sealift fleet. Strategic mobility is a national transportation system linking installations, rail, highways, ports, merchant mariners, commercial carriers, fuel networks, data, and destination infrastructure. In a contested conflict, the decisive question is not how much lift exists on paper—it is how much…
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Hypersonics Have Left the Lab. Now Comes the Hard Part. Industry News
August 13, 2026

Hypersonics Have Left the Lab. Now Comes the Hard Part.

Hypersonic weapons are crossing from demonstration into operational use, but the harder problem is now industrial. The Army is training with Dark Eagle, the Army and Navy have continued testing a common missile, and billions of dollars are committed to the capability. Yet GAO says production remains well below a goal of only 12 rounds per year. The next hypersonic…
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The Air Force Is Unbundling the Fighter Technology & Innovation
August 13, 2026

The Air Force Is Unbundling the Fighter

The Air Force is turning Collaborative Combat Aircraft into more than a new class of uncrewed fighter. By procuring competing airframes, mission-autonomy software, and open interfaces separately, the service is testing a different model of military acquisition—one in which hardware, software, payloads, and operational concepts can evolve at different speeds while remaining part of the same combat system. Bottom line:…
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Modernization Is Also Deletion: The Pentagon’s Fight Against Legacy Systems Insights
August 13, 2026

Modernization Is Also Deletion: The Pentagon’s Fight Against Legacy Systems

The Pentagon’s modernization challenge is increasingly about subtraction as much as addition. The Army has cut its business-system environment from roughly 1,300 systems to about 200, DoD has identified 89 outdated systems for retirement, and the Navy reports more than $100 million in savings from shutting down legacy platforms. The lesson is larger than audit compliance: modernization is incomplete until…
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Military command operators monitoring a networked battlespace connecting satellites, aircraft, naval forces, and ground communications systems at night
Nuclear Deterrence Is a Network, Not Just a Triad Mission Perspectives
August 13, 2026

Nuclear Deterrence Is a Network, Not Just a Triad

America’s nuclear deterrent is usually described as a triad of submarines, intercontinental ballistic missiles, and bombers. But those platforms depend on a less visible system: the warning sensors, satellites, airborne command posts, ground stations, software, networks, procedures, and people that allow national leadership to understand an attack, make a decision, communicate authenticated orders, and retain control of strategic forces. Modernizing…
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U.S. military personnel operating a high-tech desert command network connecting tactical vehicles, drones, satellites, sensors, and field communications systems
The Battlefield Cannot Wait for the Next Software Release Thought Leadership
August 13, 2026

The Battlefield Cannot Wait for the Next Software Release

At Project Convergence-Capstone 6, the Army pushed Next Generation Command and Control through division-scale operational conditions while moving the architecture from prototyping toward continuous delivery. The deeper change is not one new command-and-control system. It is a model in which software, data, interfaces, cyber assurance, and operational feedback evolve continuously—because battlefield adaptation cannot move at the pace of a multiyear…
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Autonomous naval drones, unmanned surface vessels, underwater vehicles, aircraft, and a U.S. warship operating across a connected maritime network at sea
The Navy Is Turning Autonomous Vessels Into a Marketplace Technology & Innovation
August 13, 2026

The Navy Is Turning Autonomous Vessels Into a Marketplace

The Navy’s Medium Unmanned Surface Vessel marketplace is testing more than seven competing autonomous vessels. It is testing a new force-development model: mature commercial technology enters quickly, platforms prove themselves at sea, successful designs become eligible for production, and competition can continue as autonomy, payloads, manufacturing, and operational requirements evolve. The real strategic asset may be the marketplace—and the architecture…
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NATO allied forces, armored vehicles, aircraft, and defense infrastructure representing European rearmament and transatlantic military readiness
NATO Has the Money. Now It Needs the Factories. Industry News
August 13, 2026

NATO Has the Money. Now It Needs the Factories.

NATO has largely moved beyond the question of whether Allies will spend more. European Allies and Canada increased core defense spending by nearly 20 percent in 2025, the Alliance is implementing a 5 percent investment framework, and more than $50 billion in new procurements were announced at the 2026 Ankara Summit. The harder problem is conversion: turning money into contracts,…
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