Threats
Greenland Is Falling Apart
Its ice sheet, which holds enough water to raise sea level by 25 feet, may now be melting from the bottom.
Defense Systems
Army pushes enterprise IT toward the cloud
The Enterprise IT as a Service pilot will assess whether private-sector IT infrastructure investments, operations and best practices will work for the Army and support the investments the service has made in its network.
Defense Systems
Defense Digital Service announces new director
Brett Goldstein has replaced founding director Chris Lynch.
Science & Tech
Pentagon’s Digital Guru Chris Lynch to Depart
DOD office instrumental in the JEDI cloud competition is getting a new director this month.
Ideas
Deter? Detente? NATO Has Lessons for the North Korean Conundrum
The U.S.-ROK alliance needs a strategy that supports best-case outcomes — and hedges against worst-case scenarios.
Ideas
DARPA Seeks Space Robots to Repair Satellites
The robots would service military, government, and commercial spacecraft more than 22,000 miles above the Earth.
Defense Systems
How the Navy is using FirstNet
The high-speed wireless network can make it easier for the Navy to work with the local public-safety community.
Ideas
The French Ambassador Is Retiring. Here’s What He Really Thinks About Washington.
Gérard Araud says that Trump is right about trade. Kushner is “extremely smart” but has “no guts.” And John Bolton’s not so bad, actually.
Defense Systems
Is defense acquisition at an 'inflection point?'
A new report suggests that decisions made today could "transform the defense acquisition system and the supporting defense industrial base for the next 10 to 20 years."
Defense Systems
DARPA takes autopilot to a new level
The Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System features a customizable, drop-in kit that would allow advanced automation to be easily added to existing aircraft.
Threats
Despite Threatening It, Trump Is Keeping the Military Out of Venezuela
The administration is sticking to an approach that it has favored against adversaries from Iran to North Korea: gradual economic strangulation.
Policy
All Those Mueller Report Redactions Mean the US is Still Investigating Moscow's Online Meddling in 2016
There's still a lot the public doesn't know about Russian interference operations.
Policy
Mueller’s Damning Portrait of Trump
The special counsel’s report shows a president who lies, acts rashly, and is routinely ignored by his own staff.
Science & Tech
Microsoft Unveils Two Secret Data Centers Built for Classified Government Data
Microsoft is building data centers and expanding security capabilities to compete with Amazon to host sensitive government data.
Science & Tech