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Beyond Bean Bags and Rubber Bullets: Intermediate Force Capabilities Across the Competition Continuum

The phrase nonlethal weapons (NLW) often brings to mind capabilities such as bean bags, rubber bullets, pepper spray, and electric…

The Pentagon Wants to Arm Drones With Non-Lethal Lasers and Microwave Cannon

The U.S. military wants small drones and manned vehicles to be armed with non-lethal weapons. According to this article, exotic…

DoD Officials Discuss Quantum Science, 5G, and Directed Energy

Three of the Defense Department’s 11 principal directors of modernization within the Office of Defense Research and Engineering discussed quantum…

Defense Officials Outline Hypersonics Development Strategy

The Defense Department has identified hypersonics as one of the highest priority modernization areas, as Russia and China develop their…

U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) Autonomous Vessel Sails Through Transit Test, Participates in Exercise Dawn Blitz

A Ghost Fleet Overlord unmanned surface vessel (USV), part of a partnership between the DoD’s Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) and…

Defense Officials Discuss Special Operations, Irregular Warfare Initiatives

This year, the Defense Department released a declassified summary of its Irregular Warfare Annex to the 2018 National Defense Strategy….

Joint All-Domain Command and Control Framework Belongs to Warfighters

“The Joint All-Domain Command and Control framework is not just the bailiwick of communications personnel – it is warfighting business,”…

DTIC Publishes Special Edition of Peer-Reviewed Scientific Journal

The Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) published its third issue this year of the Journal of DoD Research and Engineering…

Mission Engineering (ME): Ensuring Key Technologies Drive the Joint Warfighting Concept

To achieve its National Defense Strategy goals, defense officials have said the Defense Department must increase the pace by which…

Winning the Gray Zone: The Importance of Intermediate Force Capabilities in Implementing the National Defense Strategy

“War is both timeless and ever-changing.” This edict is among the first sentences in Warfighting, the doctrinal publication every U.S….

New Spectrum Strategy Reveals DoD’s Plan to Master Airwaves

Short of face-to-face conversation, wired internet, or telephone landlines—a mystery to many young Americans—nearly every form of communication the U.S….

Defense Science Board Counter Autonomy Report Executive Summary

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Science Board (DSB) Task Force on Counter Autonomy (CA) recently published their “Counter…