Business
Defense Contractors Can Go To Work Amid State & Local Lockdowns, Pentagon Says
Companies in California have been struggling to navigate statewide orders to stay at home.
Ideas
Senate Intelligence Chair Dumped Stock After Publicly Downplaying Coronavirus
Burr, who had been receiving daily coronavirus briefings, sold the stock the week before markets began to decline.
Ideas
The Damage That ‘America First’ Has Done
A self-interested strategy will not help the U.S. fight the coronavirus outbreak.
Science & Tech
Will An App Tell You Who Will Give You COVID-19?
Researchers say a movement-tracking app, like one China deployed, could help slow the spread of the disease.
Science & Tech
US Navy Working to Keep Subs and Destroyers From Becoming COVID-19 Hotspots
Meanwhile, the coronavirus is putting the military health-care system under stress.
Ideas
The Foreign Policy of 2021 Democrats
Joe Biden represents the so-called establishment’s last chance to reform U.S. foreign policy so it is better aligned with how Americans see the world.
Threats
Leave the National Guard to the States, Says Top General
If Trump federalizes the Guard, they can’t help with law enforcement, says Gen. Lengyel.
Ideas
China Is Avoiding Blame by Trolling the World
Beijing is successfully dodging culpability for its role in spreading the coronavirus.
Policy
OMB Says 'Work From Home.' But Some Defense Contracts Say Workers Can't
Industry association pushes for the administration to issue guidance for flexibility and greater use of contractors during the coronavirus pandemic.
Ideas
Finding ‘The End’ to Our Story in Afghanistan May Be The Best We Could Do
There are Taliban peace talks in my novel, too. No spoilers, but you can bet how that goes.
Threats
Understaffed Veterans Affairs Scrambles to Confront COVID-19
The VA’s patients are disproportionately elderly and many have war-related health conditions that could make them more vulnerable to the coronavirus.
Threats
Why US Troops are Pulling Back All Over Iraq
American forces have begun consolidating at better-protected bases as a new Iraqi prime minister-designate tries to form a government.
Defense Systems
Mass teleworking causes spike in DOD network attacks
The Defense Department's networks have been stressed since expanding telework to minimize coronavirus at defense agencies.
Defense Systems
DOD looks to industry for anti-COVID-19 prototypes
The Defense Department wants prototype solutions to combat the novel coronavirus disease and other emerging bio-threats, according to a March 15 request to industry.
Defense Systems
The COVID-19 outbreak could snag CMMC implementation
It's unclear whether emergency measures to stem coronavirus' spread will affect DOD's roll out of its unified cybersecurity standard, but mitigation efforts will likely rely on teleconferencing for training.
Defense Systems
JEDI award gets reconsideration and 120-pause
The Defense Department wants some time to it “reconsider” parts of its decision to award its $10 billion cloud contract to Microsoft and has asked the U.S. Court of Federal Claims for a 120-day pause.
Threats