Science & Tech
Top Intelligence Official: Moving to the Cloud ‘One of Best Decisions We Made’
Cloud computing is changing the way U.S. spy agencies meet their missions.
Ideas
The US Military Emits More Carbon than Sweden
Even as it begins to grapple with climate change, the Defense Department remains the world’s single largest consumer of oil.
Ideas
Buttigieg Splits From the Progressives on Foreign Policy
He articulated a values-based liberal internationalism, even as he sometimes struggled to fill in the details.
Defense Systems
A look at DARPA's subterranean, autonomous systems
A video walking tour shows the mine where teams honed underground navigation and exploration technologies for unmanned systems.
Ideas
Russia’s Quest to Lead the World in AI Is Doomed
Innovation in the former Soviet Union is still in shackles.
Threats
EXCLUSIVE: US Intelligence Officials and Satellite Photos Detail Russian Military Buildup on Crimea
Five S-400 anti-aircraft missile batteries, plus additional troops and fighters, let Moscow better defend the Black Sea and threaten Europe and the Middle East.
Threats
Buttigieg Rips Congress Over War Powers
Navy vet's insurgent campaign has skyrocketed him to 14 percent in an early Iowa poll.
Policy
US to Send 1,000 More Troops to Poland
Last fall, Warsaw asked for a tank division. Looks like they're getting rotating logistics troops instead.
Ideas
The US Wants to Sell Taiwan the Wrong Weapons
The proposal to send tanks, and not A2/AD weapons, exposes a flawed American strategy.
Ideas
The CBP Theft Is Exactly What Privacy Experts Said Would Happen
The more information the government collects, the more attractive that information is to bad actors.
Defense Systems
More money for 5G, AI could make it into 2020 NDAA
Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, wants to add $17 billion to the top-line defense budget with boosts to tech initiatives.
Ideas
Trump’s New Arctic Policy Has a Familiar Ring
Administration officials are talking tough on Russia and China, while picking fights with allies that are making U.S. goals harder to achieve.
Science & Tech
CBP Says Thousands of Traveler Photos Stolen in ‘Malicious Cyber-Attack’
The breach happened at one of the agency’s subcontractors and didn’t involve any data collected under its facial recognition program, officials said.
Business
Will Trump Object to the Raytheon-United Technologies Merger?
After an analyst said Obama-era opposition to consolidation had dissipated, Trump appeared to signal the opposite.
Policy
‘Space Force’ Shrinks in House Proposal
A bipartisan amendment would trim several generals from the new space-focused component.
Defense Systems
HASC chairman homes in on supply chain threats in NDAA
The House defense committee chair wants DOD to develop a process and criteria for suspending and debarring foreign tech companies that pose supply chain risks.
Defense Systems
Tangles in China-U.S. tech supply chain are growing
It's becoming almost impossible to untangle U.S. supply chain security policy from other political and economic issues at play, particularly when dealing with China, cybersecurity experts say.
Ideas