Congress didn’t give the White House all the munitions funding it asked for, but defense executives say it’s enough—along with the administration’s goading and global instability—to persuade them to pour more of their own funds into boosting production. In a last-minute request, the Trump administration asked lawmakers to bump munitions spending…
00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations podcast, your guide to the fundamentals of better deer hunting, presented by first Light, creating proven versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle or blind. First Light Go Farther, Stay Longer, and now your host Tony Peterson. 00:00:20 Speaker 2:…
The Pentagon’s new science and innovation board, announced last week, merges the Defense Innovation Board with the Defense Science Board to “streamline” how the department addresses the hardest technological and scientific national security challenges. But it comes on the heels of cuts that could undermine future scientific and innovation progress…
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Two U.S. Navy submarines—one Los Angeles-class and one Ohio-class—are using robots to help extend the life of aging engines, Steve Pykett, CEO of Fairbanks Morse Defense, told Defense One.“To maintain that engine and keep it in service for longer and longer, we go in, we lift the crankshaft, the casing…
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A new “non-kinetic effects cell” has helped push cyber operations to the forefront of specialized U.S. military missions such as the capture of Venezuela’s leader in the capital of Caracas, a top official told lawmakers Wednesday.The cell is “designed to integrate, coordinate and synchronize all of our non-kinetics into the planning, and then, of course,…
We’re diving in deeper with the woman who’s been behind the mission from the start, leading operations, raising her girls, and helping build AmmoSquared with purpose and strength. The ‘mom + mission’ storyYou built this company while raising and homeschooling your girls. What did that season teach you about grit, leadership,…
The .50 BMG wasn’t born out of a desire for subtlety. When John Moses Browning developed it in the late 1910s, it was to meet the U.S. military’s need for a heavy machine gun cartridge, capable of defeating aircraft, light armor, and hardened targets at extended ranges. As such, it was…
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