National Defense Magazine

In this podcast we look at U.S. Special Operations Command's push for lighter tactical trucks, the uncertain future of directed energy weapons, and a competition that has contractors jockeying for the chance to build a drone that can be launched off a small ship.

In this podcast we look at how the Coast Guard will benefit from increased funding in fiscal year 2016, a defense lab's efforts to develop vanishing air vehicles and the uncertain future of homeland missile defense.

In this podcast we look at how rising maintenance costs could affect Air Force modernization, the Army's search for more effective vehicle armor and the impact the Mobile User Objective System will have on military communications as it becomes fully operational.

In this podcast, we look at the development of the Warrior Web robotic exosuit program, that could reduce war fighter fatigue and prevent injuries, new improvements to night vision technology that help to reduce the size, weight and power consumption of goggles, and how the U.S. Navy is seeking to make unmanned underwater vehicles interoperable with other unmanned platforms.

In this episode, National Defense discusses NATO’s recommitment to collective defense, Sweden’s contribution to NATO, and the U.S. military training in NATO’s High North.