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Building trust at the speed of mission: Why identity is the new frontline in DoD cybersecurity

As threats and priorities evolve, modern identity solutions enable secure, scalable defense operations.

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The Trump administration’s lie-detector campaign is more likely to hurt than help national security

Pseudo-scientific polygraph tests may discourage internal candor and divert investigative energy while failing to stop leaks.

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Powering Resilience: Advancing Electrification and Infrastructure Readiness on Military Installations

Military infrastructure must modernize through electrification and sustainability to ensure readiness, resilience, and energy security.

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Plan to slash DHS intel office faces multi-front pushback

Jewish-community and law enforcement organizations have asked Trump administration security chiefs to preserve the DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis.

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Pentagon gets millions for cyber in GOP reconciliation act

But the law’s deep cuts to Medicaid will lower cyberdefenses around rural hospitals targeted by data thieves.

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Civilian intel analysts get relocation tax break long given to troops

The measure is part of the "Big, Beautiful" policy-and-spending bill passed last week.

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Thousands of Pentagon civilians and other feds are still waiting for their 2025 pay raise

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision last spring to shutter a slew of advisory committees has imperiled already-enacted pay raises for 60,000 federal employees in blue collar jobs.

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How the National Guard’s domestic missions build deterrence

The Guard’s citizen-soldiers and -airmen boost American resiliency, complicating any adversary’s calculations.

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Defense reconciliation bill begins rebuild and transformation of our military

The cost of deterring war will always be dwarfed by the cost of fighting one.

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The Army’s role in the Pacific

Deterrence can’t be achieved with maritime or air systems alone.

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Pentagon confirms it’s holding up weapons promised to Ukraine

Spokesman declined to say which weapons affected, when munitions review began, or who recommended the pause.

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What the R&D budget proposal says about the future of war

The Pentagon’s research-and-development section heralds several quiet, monumental shifts.