Defense One

The Mueller report’s national security angles; Afghan peace talks ‘postponed indefinitely’; Iran is getting ShadowBrokered; American militia detaining migrants; And a bit more.

The Mueller report is finally out, which means “the argument over what Team Trump did and didn’t do will move out of the legal forum and into the political arena,” the Wall Street Journal reported …

Despite Threatening It, Trump Is Keeping the Military Out of Venezuela

The administration is sticking to an approach that it has favored against adversaries from Iran to North Korea: gradual economic strangulation.

Mueller’s Damning Portrait of Trump

The special counsel’s report shows a president who lies, acts rashly, and is routinely ignored by his own staff.

Microsoft Unveils Two Secret Data Centers Built for Classified Government Data

Microsoft is building data centers and expanding security capabilities to compete with Amazon to host sensitive government data.

Earnings Week preview; Living with 5G; More Space Force trouble; DOD tries haute couture contracting

There’s nothing quite like a custom suit, so when Will Roper, the head of U.S. Air Force acquisition, used a tailoring analogy to describe the Pentagon’s relatively new buying authorities, he had …

North Korea’s weapon test; Taliban side-eye Afghan 250-member peace delegation; New Pakistani group executes troops; McGurk’s plan for Syria; Army Day in Iran; And a bit more.

North Korea claims to have tested a new kind of weapon, and now it wants Secretary of State Mike Pompeo removed from talks over the North’s nuclear program, according to state-run KCNA messaging …

Air Force to Begin Shifting Research Funds to These Kinds of Next-Gen Weapons

The Pentagon’s continues to shift focus toward Moscow and Beijing with a new push for tomorrow’s drone swarms and smart missiles.

The US Is Investing in AI for High-Powered Satellite Imagery Analysis

The Intelligence Community envisions a system combining archives with real-time surveillance footage from drones and other aircraft.

Judge Lifts Stay on the Pentagon’s JEDI Cloud Contract

But the department must wait until at least July 19 to make an award.