Boeing has won an eight-year $2.8 billion contract to develop four jam-resistant satellites for Space Force. The contract is for the development and production of so-called Evolved Strategic ...

The future of defense communications relies on agile, secure and scalable networks that empower warfighters to dominate the information domain—even in the most contested and austere environments. As ...

Today, President Donald Trump uses a phone to access deepfakes; he sometimes reposts them on social media, as do many of his close advisers. As the lines become blurred between real and fake ...

In a wide-ranging conversation, Gen. Bussiere, head of Air Force Global Strike Command, shared key updates on U.S. bomber modernization, strategic deterrence, and the future of nuclear command and ...

The Space Force is buying new satellites to augment the U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) strategic communications satellites. Credit: Northrop Grumman COLORADO SPRINGS – ...

The old mechanisms to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons are too antiquated and have lost their meaning with the coming of ...

“I’d like to think of the E-4B as kind of like a flying backup Pentagon, potentially more secure than the Pentagon,” Pentagon reporter Ryan Pickerel once said. To defense and aviation aficionados, the ...

Human judgement remains central to the launch of nuclear weapons. But experts say it’s a matter of when, not if, artificial intelligence will get baked into the world’s most dangerous systems. The ...

Command and control enables decision authority over the nuclear enterprise. It links national command authority with forces in the field to minimize decision time and maintain effectiveness. Join ...

The continued extension of the Minuteman III system calls for a rethinking of the venerable US strategic nuclear triad. The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has noted that the original plan ...

This essay contains spoilers for the film A House of Dynamite. In the opening minutes of Kathryn Bigelow's latest film, A House of Dynamite, the unthinkable happens — a single nuclear warhead is ...

The United States recently conducted a war game to test the readiness of its strategic deterrent force that featured B-52H bombers loading nuclear-capable cruise missiles. Global Thunder 26 was the ...