Science & Tech
The US Military's AI Can't Find Targets On Its Own — Yet, Top USAF General Says
The Air Combat Command leader says the tools are still learning.
Threats
Which US Cities Are Least Prepared for Climate Disaster?
New studies find cities most vulnerable to climate change disasters—heat waves, flooding, rising seas, drought—are the least prepared.
Ideas
Risks Grow As Countries Share Electricity Across Borders
The world needs the efficiency of shared energy grids, so it also needs a way to prevent them from being used for coercion.
Defense Systems
IC looks to stand up a new enterprise IT program office
The intelligence community wants to stand up a new program executive office to help develop new IT capabilities.
Ideas
How Does This War End? Afghanistan Endgame, Part 2
If the Haqqani network collapses the Afghan government, Pakistan threatens to make winning the next war even more difficult.
Defense Systems
Familiar workforce woes haunt Army cyber, electronic warfare units
The Government Accountability Office warned the Army's rapid integration of cyber and electronic warfare force components poses staffing and training concerns.
Science & Tech
Twitter, Facebook Turn Off Hundreds of Accounts Linked to Chinese Disinformation about Hong Kong Protests
In simultaneous press releases, the social-media companies say they have shut down large amounts of Beijing-controlled activity.
Threats
The US Just Launched a Long-Outlawed Missile. Welcome to the Post-INF World
Sunday’s test sent a ground-launched missile more than 500 kilometers, a test that would have been illegal last month.
Defense Systems
DISA streamlines cloud authorizations
Defense Department mission partners and service components can now host DOD Impact Level 2 data on FedRAMP-compliant clouds without waiting for an explicit written authorization from DOD.
Science & Tech
DARPA Wants AI to Help Make Weapons More Hacker-Proof
Artificial intelligence might speed up the design of arms and other network-connected platforms — and suggest improvement that humans haven’t yet conceived.
Science & Tech
The US Army Is Struggling to Staff Its Cyber Units: GAO
Congress' watchdog concluded that the Army launched its new cyber units before trying to determine whether the concept is affordable, supportable, and sustainable.
Ideas
Ep. 53: Civilian casualty reporting and the war on ISIS with Alexa O’Brien and Chris Woods
Why has coverage been so lacking? A new report offers some answers.
Ideas
It Matters Whether Americans Call Afghanistan a Defeat
The public’s judgment about whether the United States won or lost the war will affect civilian-military relations for years to come.
Ideas
‘One Belt One Road’ Is Just a Marketing Campaign. And Yet...
China’s giant project is a poorly coordinated branding effort posing as an infrastructure initiative. But it is also a new kind of strategic challenge for the United States.
Science & Tech
Face-Recognition Tool Misidentified State Lawmakers as Criminals: ACLU
The group tested Amazon's Rekognition on photos of California's lawmakers. The company says the test wasn't fair.
Science & Tech
The Aging Spacecraft of Deep Space
NASA is rationing watts to keep its oldest mission going.
Ideas
Trump’s Foreign-Policy Crisis Arrives
Competition between the U.S. and China may be inevitable, but if Trump and Xi mishandle the Hong Kong crisis, they could lose the ability to calibrate.
Policy