Colton Jones

Colton Jones serves as Deputy Editor of Defence Blog, with a specialization in the U.S. defense industrial base. A former member of the United States Air Force, Colton brings firsthand military experience to his analysis of procurement, defense manufacturing, and Pentagon policy. He is one of the blog’s lead writers and most respected defense experts.
Army

Pentagon wants computers that work with almost no power or memory

The Pentagon's most ambitious research arm wants to build computers that can think in the dark, operate on almost no power, and keep working even when their own hardware is failing, and it is now asking the...
Aviation

U.S. Air Force buys anti-drone guns to protect nuclear missile base

Drone threats to military bases have become so routine that the U.S. Air Force is now buying specialized handheld guns capable of knocking them out of the sky, and the unit guarding America's nuclear missiles just put...
Army

U.S. Army wants robots to recover battlefield vehicles

Every soldier knows the feeling: a vehicle goes down in hostile territory, and suddenly a simple recovery mission turns into a potential casualty event. The U.S. Army wants to change that calculus by removing humans from the...
Army

U.S. Army’s most powerful tank gets a $43M production boost

According to a June 18 contract notice, the U.S. Army awarded General Dynamics Land Systems, the prime contractor for Abrams production and modernization, a $43.5 million contract modification in support of M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams main battle tank...
Maritime Security

Boeing wins $880M deal for P-8A training systems

The U.S. Navy awarded Boeing a contract with a ceiling of $880 million on June 18, with no funds obligated at award, to provide training systems for the P-8A Poseidon, the workhorse aircraft the Navy uses to...
Aviation

U.S. Air Force’s B-1 bombers get new wing parts

Top Flight Aerostructures, a Georgia parts manufacturer, won two indefinite-delivery contracts from the Defense Logistics Agency to build wing components for the B-1 bomber fleet. One contract has a maximum value of $53.1 million for trailing edges,...
News

Pentagon awards deal for orbital gas station demonstration

A Maryland company wants to build something nobody's ever actually flown: a working gas station in orbit, and the Department of War is now paying for it. Quantum Space announced a contract through the Pentagon's Operational Energy...
Maritime Security

U.S. Navy spent $117M on torpedo sonar kits

Somewhere beneath the ocean's surface, a submarine the U.S. Navy can't see is the threat that keeps American admirals awake at night, and the weapon built to find it just received continued funding to keep its sensors...
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