JOHN MCHALE, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR

This month we cover the Trump Administration's Department of Defense (DoD) Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 budget request. The DoD overall requests totals 686.1 billion, up almost seven percent over the FY 2018 request. The panelists discuss the budget's potential impact on defense electronics suppliers, which applications are the winners in the budget such as unmanned systems, the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, fighter aircraft, and more.

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

Defense and intelligence contractor Polaris Alpha has won $96 million in U.S. Air Force task orders that involve work in software development, maintenance, and enhancements for command-and-control and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) operations.

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

IT/engineering company Leidos announced that it won a follow-on task order by the General Services Administration (GSA) to provide mission support services to the U.S. Army's Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) Prototyping Integration and Testing Division (PIandTD).

RAY ALDERMAN, VITA STANDARDS ORGANIZATION

In my previous article, I promised that we would integrate the warfare models (RMAs [Revolution in Military Affairs], warfare domains, strategic offsets, the OODA Loop, and generations of warfare) with the kill chain. That noble goal has been overcome by events. A number of important reports have been released in the past few months, so it's best that we take a look at those elements first. Otherwise, we risk confusion and lose some critical connections about how the kill chain is evolving.