Policy
Catholic Troops Can Refuse COVID Vaccine, Archbishop Declares
“No one should be forced to receive a COVID-19 vaccine if it would violate the sanctity of his or her conscience,” Broglio wrote.
Science & Tech
The Biggest Lesson from the Army’s Connect-Everything Experiment
New labs to test interconnections are the key to joint all-domain command and control.
Threats
General Makes Case for Army’s Role in the Indo-Pacific
“By putting boots on the ground,” Gen. Charles Flynn said, “we're demonstrating the will of the United States.”
Ideas
Keep Your Eyes on Afghanistan’s ISIS-K
The Taliban’s victory was local. ISIS still wants the world.
Ideas
How China Is Planning For a Tech Decoupling
PLA strategists are already working on counters to anticipated U.S. moves.
Threats
Taliban Takeover Of Afghanistan Is Inspiring Americans Online, FBI Says
“That’s where they see this rallying cry and their opportunity. Now it’s ‘time to buy a gun, run people over with a car,’ do whatever they’re going to do,” an FBI official said Tuesday.
Business
AUSA Conference Wire: A Big Switch
As the first post-Afghanistan AUSA conference gets underway, the shift from CT to great-power competition is evident on the convention floor.
Defense Systems
Future uptick in IT spending expected, acting DOD CIO says
Rising IT and cyber budgets may lay ahead as the Defense Department moves forward with implementing zero trust architecture and begins relying more on artificial intelligence.
Defense Systems
CISA's new talent management system could boost cyber recruitment
Despite increasing competition among the public and private sectors in hiring top cyber talent, CISA Director Jen Easterly said she has high hopes for a new personnel management system which reduces friction in hiring and offers new career paths.
Defense Systems
FirstNet to be deployed at 15 Air Force bases
The public safety network will provide secure and interoperable communications between Air Force first responders and the local public safety organizations.
Policy
US Army Is Scrutinizing Itself, Must Change Swiftly to Face China, Secretary Says
“The future is a lot closer than some of us think,” Christine Wormuth said at AUSA.
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Science & Tech
Pentagon’s Top Science Official Adds to Tech-Breakthrough Wishlist
Heidi Shyu, R&D undersecretary, said she went looking for tech areas to trim—and found that some vital ones had been overlooked.
Ideas
Mind the ‘Middle Powers’ Gap
While pivoting from terrorism to great powers, the U.S. should pay far more attention those countries caught in the struggle between democracy and authoritarianism.
Business
AUSA Conference Wire: Opening Numbers
33,000 expected as the Association of the U.S. Army opens its big annual show in Washington, D.C.
Policy
4 C’s Drive Biden Administration’s First Naval Strategic Guidance
“Expanded” posture is needed to focus on China, Navy Secretary Del Toro writes.
Threats
CIA Creates China Center To Shift To Great Power Competition
“It’s taking the top slot from the counterterrorism mission over the past 20 years,” said John Doyon, executive vice president of INSA.
Threats