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

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.