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    Commercial imaging companies solved the data access problem; now they must tackle reliability.

    Commercial Earth observation (EO) has largely solved the access problem. Defense and national security organizations can now task commercial satellites with speed and scale unimaginable a decade ago. But access is not the same as reliability.…

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    Defending the Edge: Proven Air Defense for the Modern Fight

    From Ukraine to Iran, recent conflicts have underscored how profoundly low-cost, proliferated and adaptable aerial threats are reshaping the modern battlefield. Small drones and one-way attack systems are compressing decision timelines, stressing traditional defenses and exposing…

  • Land, sea and air, the triple cover with which EM&E Group wants to shield the eastern flank

    Land, sea and air, the triple cover with which EM&E Group wants to shield the eastern flank

    Security in Eastern Europe is no longer measured only in kilometres of land border. Landlocked countries on the eastern flank face a broader challenge: to simultaneously monitor their land borders, waters and airspace in the face of the growing threat of unmanned systems. This combined need explains the growing interest of these countries in integrating…

  • Why “set it and forget it” does not work for Life Insurance

    Why “set it and forget it” does not work for Life Insurance

    USAA Life Insurance Company and USAA Life Insurance Company of New York Many service members are automatically enrolled in Servicemembers’ Group Life Insurance (SGLI) and then rarely think about it again. Early in a career, that may be understandable. A young single service member with no dependents, no mortgage, and limited financial obligations may be…

  • As Costs Rise, End-of-Life Planning is Mission-Critical for Military Families

    As Costs Rise, End-of-Life Planning is Mission-Critical for Military Families

    For service members, veterans, and their families, financial readiness has always been part of the mission. But as costs rise across housing, healthcare, and everyday essentials, another critical area is gaining urgency: planning for end-of-life expenses. Unlike deployments or Permanent Change of Station (PCS) moves, end-of-life costs are often unplanned—and unavoidable. Funeral services, final medical…

  • A Coast Guardsman’s Fight to Hold His Son Again

    A Coast Guardsman’s Fight to Hold His Son Again

    As a machinery technician in the Coast Guard, William Hamilton III spent nine years making sure the boat got to those who needed saving. But when it came time for his own emergency, he had a hard time believing it. “I knew what was up,” he says, “but I was being hardheaded.” He’d spent the evening at a Coast Guard gathering in Valdez, Alaska where he was feeling a little…

  • Bringing physical AI to the battlefield: Q&A with Dr. Philip Perconti, Leonardo DRS CTO

    Bringing physical AI to the battlefield: Q&A with Dr. Philip Perconti, Leonardo DRS CTO

    At the U.S. Army, where he retired as the service’s chief scientist and the head of research and technology, Dr. Philip Perconti helped leaders get focused on the most critical and emerging development priorities, including using artificial intelligence for mobility and maneuver and advanced sensing capabilities. Now in his fifth year as senior vice president and chief technology officer for Leonardo DRS, Perconti continues to work to solve battlefield challenges…

  • Executing the National Defense Strategy: How the Army, Team Lynx and XM30 Get It Right

    Executing the National Defense Strategy: How the Army, Team Lynx and XM30 Get It Right

    Team Lynx’s XM30 delivers what the National Defense Strategy demands: non-traditional innovation, proven industrial capability and domestic production at scale. The National Defense Strategy (NDS) calls for America to “Supercharge the U.S. Defense Industrial Base” by reinvesting in production capacity, empowering innovators, adopting technologies like artificial intelligence and removing obstacles to deliver capabilities at the scale and speed the Joint Force requires. The U.S. Army’s XM30 program shows how to…

  • Modernizing Military Facilities—At Scale

    Modernizing Military Facilities—At Scale

    Since 2023, more than 430 requests to repair, replace, or upgrade systems have been submitted by over 50 installations through IGSAs with Sourcewell, a local unit of government in the state of Minnesota. These requests cover a range of facility needs, but most often focus on core systems that support daily living conditions and extend the life of existing facilities. The volume reflects a system-wide effort to address aging assets…

  • Three Changes That Would Unleash Digital Engineering Across Defense Acquisition

    Three Changes That Would Unleash Digital Engineering Across Defense Acquisition

    The shift from platform acquisition to mission-thread thinking is where digital engineering unlocks exponential value as a strategic enabler. When modeling a mission thread from sensor to shooter, data flows through multiple systems across multiple services in a manner that exposes potential blind spots and interface gaps at critical handoff points. A legacy platform acquisition approach will never reveal these pitfalls until the capability is already fielded, leaving the warfighter…

  • Detect, track, identify, defeat: Leonardo’s integrated counter-drone ecosystem

    Detect, track, identify, defeat: Leonardo’s integrated counter-drone ecosystem

    The battlefield is being reshaped by the rapid proliferation of Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS). Today, a low-cost drone can threaten—or even destroy—military assets worth millions, fundamentally changing the economics of modern warfare. Yet the challenge extends far beyond the drone itself, as every new countermeasure is quickly met with a counter-countermeasure, creating an unrelenting cycle of adaptation between attacker and defender. To address this evolving threat landscape, Leonardo has significantly…

  • Life insurance is part of your readiness, not an afterthought

    Life insurance is part of your readiness, not an afterthought

    USAA Life Insurance Company and USAA Life Insurance Company of New York What financial readiness actually means In the military, readiness is about preparation before conditions change. The same logic applies at home. Financial readiness is not simply a matter of having enough in checking or contributing to the TSP. It means reducing the kinds of avoidable risks that can distract a service member from the mission or leave a…

  • A Military Family’s Journey through Separation and Healing

    A Military Family’s Journey through Separation and Healing

    Traveling halfway around the world for care is a daunting event, but that’s just what the Brice family of three had to do in April 2023. The Brices were living in Grafenwoehr, Germany where Army Staff Sgt. William Brice was stationed as a cavalry scout. After noticing that their young daughter had unexplained bruises, William and his wife Annah sought medical advice. Three weeks later, a diagnosis was finally given…

  • The Next EW Fight Will Be Won at Machine Speed. Here’s How L3Harris Is Preparing.

    The Next EW Fight Will Be Won at Machine Speed. Here’s How L3Harris Is Preparing.

    The electromagnetic spectrum has become one of the most contested domains in modern warfare. Peer adversaries are fielding distributed sensing architectures, adaptive jamming techniques, and deception tactics that blend cyber and electronic warfare effects to defeat U.S. and allied targeting. Staying ahead requires more than incremental upgrades. It requires a fundamental shift toward distributed, software-defined, AI-enabled systems that can sense, classify, and respond in seconds. Lauren Barnes, President of Spectrum…

  • Speed as a strategic advantage in border monitoring

    Speed as a strategic advantage in border monitoring

    Across Europe, border environments are becoming increasingly dynamic and complex. Activity can shift within hours—vehicles reposition, staging areas disperse, small watercraft alter routes, and nodes of activity appear and disappear with little warning. For national security organizations, ministries of interior, and supporting non-governmental partners, the challenge in border monitoring is no longer access to information alone. It is tempo. The ability to observe, understand, and respond before conditions change is…

  • Courage Can Save Us as a Nation. These Ten Americans Show Us How

    Courage Can Save Us as a Nation. These Ten Americans Show Us How

    Since 2018, With Honor has helped elect more than one hundred military veterans and national security professionals. In Courage Can Save US, I profile ten of them in office: five Democrats and five Republicans. As of this writing, six are in the House of Representatives, two are in the Senate, and two are governors. Nine are veterans, hailing from nearly every branch of the military; one served in Iraq with…

  • Digital Engineering Is an Acquisition Weapon System. Start Treating It Like One.

    Digital Engineering Is an Acquisition Weapon System. Start Treating It Like One.

    While our adversaries accelerate the acquisition timeline from concept to capability, the United States continues to field weapon systems and platforms on decade-long cycles. This disparity brings great risk to our warfighters, who will be left to defend U.S. interests with exquisite platforms that are obsolete on arrival. But this is not an indictment of the acquisition workforce. Rather, it is a structural problem with a powerful new tool available…

  • Army vet supports her Navy sister in tough hospital journey

    Army vet supports her Navy sister in tough hospital journey

    “I went to Japan and I was ready to spend the next 20 years there,” Kayla Saska said, a former sailor describing her first duty station. “I loved it, the people, the culture.” Kayla, a high school athlete who scored well on the military entrance exams, excelled in the Navy school for her job, fire controlman aegis. She picked Japan so that she could do her job where it really…

  • Courage Can Save Us as a Nation. These Ten Americans Show Us How

    Courage Can Save Us as a Nation. These Ten Americans Show Us How

    Since 2018, With Honor has helped elect more than one hundred military veterans and national security professionals. In Courage Can Save US, I profile ten of them in office: five Democrats and five Republicans. As of this writing, six are in the House of Representatives, two are in the Senate, and two are governors. Nine are veterans, hailing from nearly every branch of the military; one served in Iraq with…

  • THE EDGE IS THE NEW HIGH GROUND Own the Edge ™

    THE EDGE IS THE NEW HIGH GROUND Own the Edge ™

    For centuries, military doctrine held a simple truth: seize the high ground and you command the battle. Elevation delivered observation, engagement advantage, and defensive strength. Today, that advantage has shifted. The high ground is no longer a hilltop. It is the forward edge of the battlespace, where sensing, decision, and effects converge. The force that owns the edge owns the fight. Recent conflicts have made this clear. In Ukraine, fixed…

  • From Attritable Drones to Enduring Capability

    From Attritable Drones to Enduring Capability

    As unmanned systems become central to modern defense operations, the next challenge is not simply how to field more drones faster, but how to build lasting operational advantage. Robinson Unmanned President Paul Fermo discusses why drone dominance requires an ecosystem of adaptable aircraft, from small soldier-deployable systems to full-scale autonomous helicopters, supported by open architecture, scalable production, and the discipline of certified aircraft manufacturing. Q: The defense community is moving…

  • McCain Institute Sedona Forum 2026: Bipartisan Leaders Gather to Discuss Challenges to American Dominance

    McCain Institute Sedona Forum 2026: Bipartisan Leaders Gather to Discuss Challenges to American Dominance

    As global instability intensifies and political divisions deepen at home, the 2026 Sedona Forum convened some of the world’s most influential policymakers, military leaders, journalists, and business voices to address a defining question: What will it take to sustain American leadership in a rapidly changing world? Held May 1-2 in Sedona, Arizona, the McCain Institute’s 13th annual Sedona Forum centered on the theme “The Challenges to American Dominance.” The gathering…

  • How Industry Is Accelerating Space-Based Missile Defense

    How Industry Is Accelerating Space-Based Missile Defense

    As threats in space and the electromagnetic spectrum accelerate, defense leaders are under growing pressure to deliver faster, more integrated capabilities. Defense News recently spoke with Jeff Hanke, President, Space Systems at L3Harris Technologies, about how industry is responding across missile warning and defense, space domain awareness, and electronic warfare. Hanke outlines the shift toward proven, on-orbit capabilities, resilient architectures, and software-defined systems that compress the timeline from detection to…

  • Gold star sister reflects on time at Dover Fisher House

    Gold star sister reflects on time at Dover Fisher House

    In 2020, Christina Phaneuf and her family got one of the worst calls that a military family can receive. Her brother, Air Force Capt. Ryan Phaneuf, had died in a crash. Her family was invited to Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, to meet Ryan’s remains as he returned to U.S. soil. “My brother was serving out in Afghanistan,” Christina said, “and we found out that his plane went down, and…

  • Defending the Heartland: The Multi‑Domain Protection Architecture of Tomorrow

    Defending the Heartland: The Multi‑Domain Protection Architecture of Tomorrow

    The threats facing the United States have never been more complex, more layered, or more time critical. Ballistic missiles, hypersonic glide vehicles, cruise missiles, cyber intrusions, and one way attack drones now move across physical and digital domains with unprecedented fluidity. Increasingly, the most decisive actions begin in space, a domain that is no longer a sanctuary but a frontline of competition. These threats exploit seams in doctrine and technology.…

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