Business
How L3 Technologies Is Culture-Shifting Its Way into the Industry’s Top Tier
Over the past 18 months, the company has overhauled its structure and various modus operandi.
Threats
How the Climate Crisis Threatens the US Energy System
The U.S. military is the largest customer of the U.S. electricity grid, and other insights from a two-day workshop convened by the Council on Foreign Relations.
Ideas
Europe's Elections Suggest US Shouldn’t Be Complacent in 2020
The lesson is not that elections are secure, but that Russian and other subversives are choosy about when and how they engage.
Ideas
Deterrence Is Failing — Partly Because Iran Has No Idea What the US Really Wants
Successful deterrence requires clear delineation of acceptable and unacceptable behaviors. That needs to start, pronto.
Ideas
Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter Talks Iran, China, and Trump’s Late-Night Tweets
“I don’t want to have a war with Iran, but I know who would win.”
Ideas
Vetting Foreigners’ Facebook Feeds Won’t Make Americans Safer
The federal government wants visa applicants to cough up their social-media handles.
Defense Systems
OTAs get more scrutiny in House defense bill
Lawmakers seek annual reporting requirements to get insight into how the Defense Department uses other transaction agreements.
Defense Systems
NDAA pushes DOD-VA cooperation on health record modernization
The $20 billion health record modernization efforts at the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs are going to be joined a little more closely under an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act.
Threats
US Blames Tanker Attacks On Iran; CENTCOM Releases Surveillance Video
Military officials say imagery shows Iranians in boats at the tankers, handling a mine and trying to capture crew members.
Ideas
Trump’s Efforts at Election Tampering Are Growing Bolder
Having exploited foreign assistance in 2016 and gotten away with it, the president is already trying it again in the 2020 race.
Science & Tech
Telegram: Hackers in China Disrupted Service During Hong Kong Protests
Bogus signals inundated an encrypted-messaging service that helped demonstrators coordinate, the company says.
Defense Systems
HASC passes $733 billion defense authorization bill
The House defense committee debated into the early morning, pushing the 20-hour mark before sending its version of the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act for a full House vote.
Threats
These Are the US Military Bases Most Threatened by Climate Change
The belated lists arrived just ahead of a GAO report that says the Pentagon is failing to use climate projections in planning.
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