Defense Systems
Ethics vs. compliance in AI
Tech experts warn against treating ethics as like just another box on a compliance checklist.
Defense Systems
Air Force rolls out bomb disposal robots
Air Force Civil Engineer Center will deliver 333 new robots and training to every explosive ordnance disposal flight across the Air Force.
Business
Raytheon Sheds People, Offices, Divisions as Pandemic Crushes Commercial Sector
The company’s defense business is one bright light.
Ideas
What Clinton’s Foreign Affairs Article May Mean for the Defense Budget
Her approach, more rebalancing rather than modernizing, avoids a simple zero-sum frame of defense vs. non-defense spending.
Science & Tech
DOD Funds an Academic Consortium of Hypersonic Researchers to Outdo China
The field is so new that it needs experts from many fields to learn to work together.
Business
Lockheed Seeks Commercial Tie-Ups to Chase 5G Work
CEO Taiclet wants a leading role as U.S. and allied militaries build out their next-gen mobile networks.
Ideas
How to Avoid a Violent Election Season
Beware the 'security dilemma.' Tell Americans that arming up, or posturing to do so against each other, could only make things worse.
Policy
Administration Rushes Out Guidelines for Ending Civil Service Protections
Just two days after the executive order, initial instructions are issued on converting career federal policy-making positions to at-will appointments.
Ideas
In A Post-COVID World, We Need AI More Than Ever
Artificial intelligence tools promise, among other things, to make the Pentagon more efficient.
Science & Tech
Mapping Agency Wants to ID Locations by Sound
If your technology can tell what city it's in just by listening, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency may have a prize for you.
Policy
What Would a Second Trump Term Mean For Foreign Policy?
The nuts and bolts may shift, but the approach is likely to stay the same.
Ideas
Want Real Security? Create Better Global Digital Rules and Norms
The longer the U.S. waits to throw its weight behind efforts to create rules for today’s digital competition, the less hope it has of retaining advantage.
Policy
‘Stunning’ Executive Order Enables Politicized Civil Service
President Trump's new directive allows thousands of federal jobs now filled through competition to be turned into at-will positions.
Ideas
The Head of US Intelligence Has Ceased to Be an Honest Broker
The result has been grave damage to U.S. counterintelligence and electoral security efforts.
Ideas