National Security Cutters Demonstrate Capabilities
With the delivery of the planned eight national security cutters (NSCs) to the U.S. Coast Guard almost half complete, the …
C4ISR
Maritime Domain Awareness Means Knowing What’s Going on at Sea
Maritime domain awareness (MDA) is to have knowledge about what’s going on offshore – who is operating there, and why …
The P-8A Poseidon Adventure: Training, Transition, and Deployment
The P-8A Poseidon’s debut deployment will be to Kadena Air Base in Okinawa with detachments all over the western Pacific. …
C2 Strike Mobility Commander
While the U.S. Army’s semi-annual Network Integration Evaluation (NIE) events have created amazing mission command on the move capabilities integrated …
The Army of 2030
The myriad changes that the U.S. Army has undergone over the past dozen years of war serve to highlight the …
Army Capability Set 13 Fielding Scaled Back
It hasn’t quite become a mantra yet, but in the increasingly dynamic world of U.S. Army transformation and modernization, and …
A Very Short History of Postwar Military Airships
When the U.S. Navy disbanded the last of its blimp fleet in 1962, it marked the end of the first …
The New Age of Military Airships Isn’t Likely to Last Very Long
To anyone at all passionate about airships, New Jersey’s Lakehurst Naval Air Station is Jerusalem. Birthplace and home to the …
Army Evaluations Wind Their Way to Equipment Fielding
“What a long strange trip it’s been.”
– Jerry Garcia
It’s been a full decade since the U.S. Army began …
Air Command and Control and Sensor Netting
When it came under the PEO Land Systems umbrella just a few years ago, the Marine Corps’ Common Aviation Command …