Defense Systems
Cyber solarium pivots to align with pandemic concerns
Members of the Solarium Commission are retooling their pitch to focus on recommendations that draw parallels to the current coronavirus crisis.
Defense Systems
Cyber and other transaction agreements
Other transaction agreements will be subject to the Defense Department’s unified cybersecurity standard, according to Katie Arrington, DOD’s chief information security officer for acquisition.
Ideas
Trump’s Nuclear Policy Has Failed
Recognizing that blunders and bad ideas have undermined stability and security is the first step toward recovery.
Ideas
Can China Use the Pandemic to Displace the US?
Distrust of Beijing may be growing, but so too is alarm over Washington's ineptitude.
Science & Tech
Fear Not the Tracing Apps, Fear How Little They Will Say
Human-mobility data will play a big role in efforts to understand the pandemic over the summer. It will have serious limitations.
Policy
Trump’s Intelligence-Chief Nominee Vows to ‘Speak Truth to Power’
GOP lawmakers are seeking to fasttrack Rep. John Ratcliffe’s nomination, but his careful answers did not appear to satisfy skeptics.
Science & Tech
The Army Wants a Wearable COVID-19 Detector
On Monday, the service issued a request for project proposals through the Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium “to develop a wearable diagnostic capability."
Science & Tech
The High-Tech Gear That’s Helping the US Military Decide Where to Send Medical Troops Next
An iPhone app and predictive analytics tell the four-star what’s going on right now.
Threats
State Dept. Reroutes Peacekeeping Gear To Coronavirus Fight In Africa
The move shows how the virus has refocused U.S. security policy.
Ideas
Pull US Troops, not Diplomats and Development Experts, from Afghanistan
America’s interests are no longer furthered by military might in the country, but we can still help in other ways.
Threats
Esper Says Pentagon Is Bracing for a ‘New Normal’ That Lasts ‘An Extended Period of Time'
"What do we do over the next 6, 12, 18 months?” the defense secretary asked at a Monday virtual event.
Ideas
Amid Pandemic, China Is Working to Lead the World Trump Abandoned
Administration officials don't understand the significance of the chaos they have created in place of what used to be American foreign policy.
Ideas
Propaganda, the President, and the ‘Reopen’ Protesters
The military’s nostalgic WWII-style posters urge face masks and national unity, but they’re not reaching Trump and his disbelieving followers.
Science & Tech
Defense Innovation Board Director Moves to Google
It’s another sign of the healing relationship between the Defense Department and big tech.
Policy
States' ‘Reopening’ Might Not Apply to Troops, Military Families
Georgia is opening up. Fort Benning may not.
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Science & Tech
Russian Arms Production Slowed by Coronavirus, Analysts Find
A report drawing on anonymized phone data, and other open-source information belies Vladimir Putin’s everything’s-under-control message.
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