Policy
Lack of Space National Guard Could Hurt Training, Recruiting
Guardsmen in space-related jobs have trouble getting into Space Force schools, leaders say.
Ideas
More Military Education Should Be Like the ‘Strategic Thinkers Program’
PME schools should move beyond a minimal standard toward the demanding education students deserve.
Business
Space Force Buys a Digital Twin of Orbital Space
Updated “minute-by-minute,” the Slingshot Aerospace tool is expected to improve training and real-world planning.
Ideas
The DOD Needs a Joint Wargaming Center
The recent explosion of wargames obscures several flaws in the current system.
Policy
Range Limits, Enemy Snooping Are Leading Naval Services to More Virtual Training
And the Marines want virtual foes that fight more like their real enemies.
Science & Tech
Space Force Has a Plan for Training Its Troops. Now It Must Figure Out What They Need to Learn
The newest service can’t train the same way its sisters do. It needs a new simulated environment.
Threats
Globe-Spanning Wargame Puts New Naval Concepts to the Test
Large Scale Exercise 21 is connecting thousands of sailors and Marines to try out and develop warfighting concepts intended to be central to tomorrow's fight.
Policy
What Will Decrease Training Deaths? More Training, GAO Says
A recent increase in non-combat vehicle deaths could be reversed with more, better training, GAO’s newest report says.
Policy
Marine General Punished For Training, Evaluation Failures Before Deadly Accident
Commandant’s decision may end Maj. Gen. Robert Castellvi’s career.
Threats
GOP Lawmakers Push Chinese Threat at Indo-Pacific Commander’s Hearing
Adm. Davidson called China the “greatest long-term strategic threat of the 21st century.”
Ideas
How to Teach Troops about the Constitution
We can’t assume they know enough about what they’re swearing to support and defend.
Science & Tech
Combat Simulators Should Also Improve Acquisition, DOD Leader Says
The modeling and simulation tools that train troops and forces should also “revolutionize” design, acquisition, sustainment and test.
Ideas
Combat Leaders Go Through Hell to Learn About Risk. The Acquisition Corps Should Do the Same
One reason the “culture of innovation” hasn’t taken proper hold at the Pentagon is that its buyers aren’t trained over and over to weigh uncertainties.
Ideas
Do You Miss Baseball? Here’s How the Pentagon Might Have Predicted the Nationals’ World Series Upset
Red teaming can help spot flawed assumptions, root out dangerous biases—and explain how oddsmakers got the Nats-Astros matchup so wrong.
Threats
Stop Hiding Vulnerabilities Found By Red Teams, Joint Staff to Tell Military
Eight years after DoD's inspector general found that problems found by red teams often went unfixed, a new instruction seeks to change that.
Science & Tech
USAF Seeks Custom Game Environment to Test New Ideas
So it's inviting game builders to compete in a three-part contest.
Science & Tech
US Air Force Wants Wargames that Simulate Lasers, Electromagnetic Weapons
The sims are meant to teach airmen about these new weapons and help the Air Force develop new tactics and procedures.
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