The U.S. will not complete scheduled deliveries of crude oil into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve until the end of the year due to maintenance, as much as seven months behind schedule, the Department ...

Tensions escalated sharply on June 23 after Iran launched a missile strike on the US-run Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, ...

It also specifically advocates for the creation of a Civil Reserve Manufacturing Network that would establish “ready-to-scale defense production” and calls for Congress to fund it as soon as FY26.

Samuel Ruiz/U.S. Department of Defense As of last year, the Civil Reserve Air Fleet included 441 aircraft from 27 commercial carriers, which is leaner compared to the 553 from back in 2014, but ...

The National Defense Reserve Fleet (NDRF) is often deemed part of the mothball fleet, and it boasted 2,077 vessels in 1950. These numbers fell to 274 by 2003 and plummeted again to 91 by 2021.

President Trump’s National Security Team will hopefully soon be assembled and one of its first tasks is to create a National Security Strategy (NSS,) reflective of how the new administration ...

Not only do we need to preserve the 25 that we've had so we've got a place for them to land, if we can't stem the exit rates, if you grow the reserve component without any demand signal on your ...

RCP co-founder Tom Bevan joins a conversation about the results of the Reagan Foundation's 2024 National Defense Survey, a major public opinion study about foreign and defense policy, with Olivier ...

Another 2,277 were owned as part of the National Defense Reserve Fleet. All told, this totaled over half of the world’s total tonnage capacity. All that is now firmly in the past.

A new program called the Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve, or CASR, will ensure the Space Force can rely on commercial vendors’ space systems throughout a “spectrum of conflict,” said ...