Science & Tech
Defense One Radio, Ep. 186: Tech Summit talks: Anduril's Chris Brose
The second in a series of conversations from this year’s Defense One Tech Summit.
Defense Systems
Pentagon seeks sensors to aid regenerative medicine
And as a byproduct, to boost the U.S. biotech industry.
Threats
The deadly Texas flash flood is a preview of the chaos to come
Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.
Sponsor Content
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.
Ideas
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.
Threats
Army aims to quadruple Patriot missile procurement
Move comes amid conflict with Iran, questions about aid to Ukraine.
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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.
Policy
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.
Policy
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.
Voices
Policy
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.
Threats
Kremlin gloats about US weapons pause to Ukraine
The halt in aid speaks to a shifting view of the threat Putin poses.
Policy
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.
Ideas
How the National Guard’s domestic missions build deterrence
The Guard’s citizen-soldiers and -airmen boost American resiliency, complicating any adversary’s calculations.
Ideas
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.
Threats
Defense One Radio, Ep. 185: Tech Summit talks: Golden Dome, hypersonics and missile defense
The first in a series of conversations from this year’s Defense One Tech Summit.
Ideas
The Army’s role in the Pacific
Deterrence can’t be achieved with maritime or air systems alone.
Policy
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.
Science & Tech
Army experiments with integrating attack drones into artillery formations
New division formation design includes HIMARS, howitzers, and one-way UAVs.
Ideas
What the R&D budget proposal says about the future of war
The Pentagon’s research-and-development section heralds several quiet, monumental shifts.
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