Research And Development

The Pentagon Needs A Software Update—Literally
The Department of Defense now faces an increasing challenge: how to empower its personnel to make faster, more informed decisions in a world overwhelmed by data and complexity. A memo...

More Investment, More Competition, Less Panic
Editor’s note: In February, The National Interest organized a symposium on the U.S.-China technology race amidst the emergence of DeepSeek and ongoing legal battles over TikTok. We asked a variety of experts the following...

Winning the Innovation Race: Three Key Policies to Secure U.S. Tech Leadership Over China
Editor’s note: In February, The National Interest organized a symposium on the U.S.-China technology race amidst the emergence of DeepSeek and ongoing legal battles over TikTok. We asked a variety of experts the following...

A Tech Power Playbook for Donald Trump 2.0
In coming years, the pace of technological innovation and deployment will only quicken. The new administration will need a systematic and sustained approach. On January 20, Donald J. Trump entered...

Three Cheers for the Military Industrial Complex
As a crucial presidential election looms, with a world on fire and threats of multiple wars dotting the globe, we need to take stock of where America is and where...

Stop Federal Grants from Strengthening China’s Military
Last November, investigative reporters uncovered that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) had provided $30 million in artificial intelligence research grants to a Chinese scientist at the Beijing Institute of...

China’s Economic Slowdown is Strengthening its Defense Industrial Base
In 2023, China’s economy grew at the slowest pace since 1990, apart from two years during the COVID-19 pandemic when the country was closed to the outside world. For many...

The U.S. Military’s Research and Development Challenge
In an evolving world where the speed of tech development is increasing rapidly, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) finds itself increasingly behind. Even though the DoD recognizes the need...

Can Innovation Accelerators Deliver Next-Gen Military Hardware?
Fast-growing small and medium-sized businesses are stepping up efforts to increase cooperation with the Pentagon as they spend internal research and development funds in pursuit of new technologies. These efforts...

Ohio Company ArmorSource to Provide New Helmets to U.S. Army
Beginning next year, U.S. Army vehicle crewmen will begin receiving improved helmets that should provide better protection and comfort. Last month, the U.S. Army awarded ArmorSource LLC., a Hebron, Ohio-based...

The Pentagon Needs to Keep Promises to Defense Partners
Here’s What You Need to Remember: But an equally significant reason why defense companies are putting more of their own skin in the game is the apparent change in attitude at...

Can the U.S. Army Solve Its Air-Defense Gap?
The Army is aggressively embracing a key strategic imperative to closely link research, scientific discovery, prototyping and promising innovation with the procurement chain or production apparatus necessary to fast-track promising new systems...