Friday, April 19, 2024
Sebastian Sprenger was the chief editor of Inside the Army until May 2016, where he primarily reported on land warfare and associated budgets, policies and technologies. A native of Siegen, Germany, he got is start in journalism at the now-defunct Westfälische Rundschau in Kreuztal. He studied at Universität Trier and elsewhere.
Officials at U.S. Strategic Command have agreed to adopt a relatively new analytical process that uses the command's military plans as the basis for crafting resource recommendations in next year's budgeting cycle, according to an Institute for Defense Analyses official who helped pilot the program at several commands.
With the advent of cyberspace as a key warfighting domain for the U.S. military, lots of new legal questions arise.
Taking a cue from the 2006 National Space Strategy, Air Force leaders are poised to unveil new doctrine later this year that would make "freedom of action" in cyberspace a key service goal, according to sources and documents.
Defense Department Chief Information Officer John Grimes has once again urged defense officials to improve the protection of sensitive information hosted on military servers connected to the Internet.
While a status-of-forces agreement between Washington and Baghdad remains in abeyance, U.S. senior administration officials wrapped up a lesser-known, internal accord this summer that governs contractor activities in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Defense acquisition chief John Young is slated to meet with senior German and Italian officials in Brussels tomorrow to discuss the fate of the trilateral Medium-Extended Air Defense System program.
Joint Special Operations University officials, on behalf of U.S. Special Operations Command, recently released a catalog of research ideas they would like military schoolhouses to tackle in 2009.
Defense Department officials are moving ahead with plans to leave a flurry of policy documents for the next Pentagon leadership team covering every mission area outside traditional, force-on-force warfare.
Air Force leaders should consider establishing a laboratory dedicated to the study of nuclear weapons, their effects and delivery systems akin to the now-defunct Air Force Weapons Laboratory, according to a new report by a group of Pentagon advisers.
Officials at the Air Force Research Laboratory are looking for new ideas to help fend off attacks in cyberspace, according to a notice released by the lab yesterday.
In future stabilization operations, U.S. forces should deploy with equipment they intend to leave overseas, according to a draft version of the Defense Department's forthcoming policy instruction for stability operations, which is circulating among military planners.
The Missile Defense Agency should put "renewed emphasis" on research and development for ballistic missile defense systems while transferring the responsibility for operating and maintaining key programs to the services as quickly as possible, according to a report by the Institute for Defense Analyses.
The Missile Defense Agency should not have a role in boosting U.S. defenses against cruise missiles, according to a congressionally mandated report commissioned by the Pentagon.
As the Department of Homeland Security gears up for its first-ever transition of administrations, a report by a group of DHS advisers from early this year is worth revisiting.
Military leaders are still trying to get their hands around what it means to fight in cyberspace.
Military officials have scheduled the first-ever test of the Massive Ordnance Penetrator from a bomber in December, according to sources.
The Washington Post last week ran a good piece on the Pentagon’s use of information operations in Iraq.
Lawmakers slashed $327 million from a $1.8 billion reprogramming request the Pentagon sent Congress in July, axing many new-start programs in the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance arena that defense officials had hoped to get off the ground late in fiscal year 2008, according to a revised copy of the document released by the Pentagon this week.
Two stories posted yesterday shed some much-needed light on the goings-on at the Pentagon as the Bush administration winds down.
Joint Staff officials are beginning a sweeping review of combatant command and service priorities that could lay the groundwork for the next administration's decisions early next year on everything from Afghanistan to weapons of mass destruction, according to defense officials.