On May 5, Shaun Waterman of Air & Space Forces Magazine published an article highlighting Forward Defense‘s Commission on Software-Defined Warfare final report. The article focused on the impacts of Secretary of Defense Hegseth’s March 6 memo on software-defined warfare and software acquisition pathways. This piece quoted Forward Defense nonresident senior fellow and Commission on Software-Defined Warfare co-author Tate Nurkin‘s remarks made at the Commission’s final report launch event on personnel training at the Pentagon.
Forward Defense leads the Atlantic Council’s US and global defense programming, developing actionable recommendations for the United States and its allies and partners to compete, innovate, and navigate the rapidly evolving character of warfare. Through its work on US defense policy and force design, the military applications of advanced technology, space security, strategic deterrence, and defense industrial revitalization, it informs the strategies, policies, and capabilities that the United States will need to deter, and, if necessary, prevail in major-power conflict.
Forward Defense’s Commission on Software-Defined Warfare aims to digitally transform the armed forces for success in future battlefields. Comprised of a distinguished group of subject-matter and industry commissioners, the Commission has developed a framework to enhance US and allied forces through emergent digital capabilities.
