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Memo Details Effort to Boost Production of Weapons Sent to Ukraine
The Pentagon's top buyer offers a “targeted list” of weapons to help solve a problem decades in the making.
Policy
NSA Woos Laid-Off Tech Workers
The intelligence agency is advertising "one of its largest hiring surges in 30 years" amid other new recruiting efforts.
Science & Tech
CENTCOM Exercise Aims To Speed Up the Pace of War
Using AI to handle boring administrative tasks helps enable faster targeting.
Ideas
China Just Exposed the GOP’s Real Target: Biden
Less than a month into the new Congress, hopes for the return of adults-in-the-room Republicans atop national-security committees have popped like a balloon.
Ideas
What Tanks in Ukraine Tell Us About America in the Pacific
U.S. hopes that Europe can take care of itself appear to be farfetched.
Ideas
Italy and Japan Are Deepening Military-Industrial Ties. The US Should Help
Yes, even though they’re working on Europe’s new fighter jet.
Science & Tech
China’s Balloon May Have Taught the US More Than Beijing Learned From It, General Says
Still, NORAD’s chief says the U.S. military took “precautions,” including “non-kinetic effects.”
Policy
Key Republicans Launch Two-Part Plan to Pressure Biden on Ukraine
National security committee leaders in Congress are waging a public campaign to signal they support sending more advanced weapons to Ukraine–and faster than Biden is allowing.
Threats
Some Ospreys on Flight Restrictions Pending Part Replacement
U.S. military limiting the lifespan of a gearbox part to address V-22 hard clutch incidents.
Threats
F-22 Shoots Down Chinese Balloon Off Coast of South Carolina
It appears the Raptor just got its first air-to-air kill.
Policy
The Army Picked a Black Hawk Replacement — But the Fight May Have Just Begun
Sikorsky and Boeing are protesting the service choosing a Bell-made tiltrotor, and lawmakers are angry.
Ideas
Urban Combat Is Changing. The Ukraine War Shows How
Four attributes distinguish today’s city battles from those that have come before.
Ideas
Defense One Radio, Ep. 116: Has US foreign policy become too militarized?
Two researchers compiled data on U.S. military interventions from 1776 to 2019. Here's what they learned.
Policy
The Pentagon Has Unimplemented Cyber Recommendations from 2012
A new report from the Office of Inspector General points out longstanding unmet requests.
Policy
House Republicans Vote to Turn Back Time on Telework
The SHOW UP Act would require federal agencies to revert to their pre-pandemic telework policies.
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