by Electra | May 1, 2025
Defense Department leadership has signed a new policy to guide the military’s software development and streamline acquisition processes, the Pentagon’s top weapons buyer said Oct. 7. The software acquisition pathway is one of the six pathways included in the new...
by Electra | May 1, 2025
“The last tactical mile” used to refer to where extensive planning, training, manning and equipping gets put to the test: the austere battlespace where strategies succeed or fail. Armed with increasingly sophisticated technology and enhanced connectivity, the last...
by Electra | May 1, 2025
The Defense Department’s new data strategy — a key piece of the Pentagon’s digital modernization program — lays out numerous guiding principles, goals and objectives as the military works to become what it calls a “data-centric organization.”
In a foreword to the...
by Electra | May 1, 2025
One can view the Defense Department’s Digital Modernization Strategy as a direct response to this 2018 National Defense Strategy goal: “Prototyping and experimentation should be used prior to defining requirements and commercial off-the-shelf systems. Platform...
by Electra | May 1, 2025
The main goal of High-Power Microwave (HPM) Directed-Energy Weapons (DEWs) is to wield an electromagnetic attack (EA) on a target that results in either a soft- or hard-kill of the target’s electronic circuits and components. The scenario of an EA may be seen as a...
