The First US Bombers

Right on Cue, North Korea Testing Ballistic Missiles, as DIA Predicts

Oct. 19, 2021

Just days after a Defense Intelligence Agency report predicted new ballistic missile testing by North Korea, the Pyongyang regime fired a a submarine-launched ballistic missile which landed in the Sea of Japan. While U.S. Indo-Pacific Command downplayed the test as representing no new threat to the U.S. or regional allies,…

Ukraine Welcomes Austin but Calls for Air Defense and Vocal Support to Join NATO

Oct. 19, 2021

Laying a wreath for fallen Ukrainian soldiers in the ongoing war with Russia, Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III in Kyiv Oct. 19 voiced support for the 30-year-old democracy, but Ukraine security experts say the Biden administration naively falls short and leaves Ukraine open to Russian invasion. "This administration is…

DOD Mum on China’s Nuclear-Capable Hypersonic Weapon, but Hints US Needs to Step It Up

Oct. 19, 2021

Across the defense establishment, officials have declined to comment on reports that China fielded a nuclear-capable hypersonic weapon in August, but defense policy nominee Alexandra Baker told senators Oct. 19 there was a “sense of urgency” for DOD to develop similar capabilities. For two days, DOD officials from U.S. Space…

KC-46, F-35 Provide Lessons for Future Testing, Pentagon Nominee Says

Oct. 19, 2021

Lessons from the KC-46 and F-35 will prove useful to the testing community in the years to come, the nominee to take over the role of director of operational test and evaluation for the Pentagon told lawmakers Oct. 19.

Gen. Colin Powell, Joint Chiefs Chair in Desert Storm and Secretary of State Under G.W Bush, Dies at 84

Oct. 18, 2021

Internationally known and respected Army Gen. Colin Powell died Oct. 18 at age 84 of complications from COVID-19. Powell served a 35-year Army career capped by duties as National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan and as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President George H.W. Bush. He…

Senate Appropriations Proposes $500 Million Extra for Space Force in 2022

Oct. 18, 2021

The Senate Appropriations Committee released its version of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act on Oct. 18, proposing an additional half billion dollars for the Space Force's 2022 budget and 16 more C-130Js for the Air Force, while leaving the service's requests for F-35s and F-15EXs untouched.

Austin Visits Non-NATO Partner Georgia to Tout New Russia Deterrence Efforts

Oct. 18, 2021

Before Russia took NATO by surprise in 2014, invading Ukraine and taking the Crimean peninsula, some 200 miles from NATO shores was Georgia. In the Georgian provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia in 2006, Russian President Vladimir Putin spurred a frozen conflict, and Russia still occupies some 20 percent of Georgian…

VIDEO: From Munitions to Electromagnetic Warfare, Every Mission Capability Area Panel at ASC21

Oct. 18, 2021

The Air Force Association's Air, Space & Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Md., brought together top defense experts in September to discuss some of the biggest topics and challenges facing the Air Force and Space Force in a series of 10 “Mission Capability Area” panels. Those sessions are now available…

As National AI Panel Shuts Down, New Think Tank Emerges to Continue Its Work

Oct. 18, 2021

The congressionally chartered National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence has completed its work, but the team that created its 756-page report will continue, backed this time by its former chair, Eric Schmidt, who is committing his own money to the new effort, dubbed the "Special Competitive Studies Project." Schmidt was…

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