Ideas

What the UK Wants from the NATO Summit

Continue work on programs set in 2014 and 2016, and recognize the alliance’s immense value.

  • Steve McCarthy
Ideas

America’s Moment of Truth With North Korea Is Coming

Mike Pompeo’s visit wasn’t it. But the visit hinted at what it might look like.

  • Uri Friedman
Threats

Tomorrow's Quantum Computers Are Already Threatening Today’s Data

Large-scale quantum computing could be just five years away.

  • John Breeden II
Threats

NATO, nervous; Russia builds up in Kaliningrad; Mattis sends thank-you to Saudi; Your suggestions for the Army’s next slogan; and just a bit more...

  • Bradley Peniston and Ben Watson
Ideas

The Lesson of the Great War: Stay Engaged, America

A century after the guns fell silent, the United States risks replicating the errors of the past.

  • Eliot A. Cohen
Ideas

What to Expect from Trump’s Marathon Week of Diplomacy

Allies are right to be worried.

  • Rachel Rizzo
Defense Systems

DISA uses OTA to pilot background-investigation platform

A prototype aims to provide an "integrated case management solution" as a shared service for investigative users.

  • Troy K. Schneider, Defense Systems
Ideas

DHS Aims to Turn Mobile Devices into No Phishing Zones

The Homeland Security Department and 16 other agencies are upgrading their mobile device security.

  • Frank Konkel
Defense Systems

DOD rethinks digital engineering

The strategy emphasizes the need for culture shift, formalized development processes and innovation to modernize legacy defense systems.

  • Lauren C. Williams, Defense Systems
Ideas

America and North Korea Are Having Two Different Conversations

One country’s “productive” talks are another’s “gangster-like” demands.

  • Kathy Gilsinan, The Atlantic
Ideas

Trump’s Message to NATO

‘We’re the schmucks paying for the whole thing.”

  • Krishnadev Calamur, The Atlantic
Defense Systems

DARPA awards $60M in technology testing task orders

ManTech International reports four task order awards worth $60 million combined for technology testing support to DARPA.

  • Ross Wilkers, Defense Systems
Science & Tech

Russia Building Up Military Sites on Poland’s Border Before Trump-Putin Meeting

Satellite photos show new structures and other bunker improvements in the Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad made in the run-up to the NATO summit.

  • Patrick Tucker
Threats

US soldier killed in Afghanistan; A worse fitness-app data leak; How Russia could test NATO; US warships sail the Taiwan Strait; and just a bit more….

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Threats

This is How Russia Could Test NATO, Warns Former US Army Europe Commander

Ben Hodges co-authors a new report that explores how Russia might engineer a military crisis on the Poland-Lithuania border.

  • Patrick Tucker
Defense Systems

Can you really fix DOD acquisitions in a week?

Section 809 Panel Chair David Drabkin and Commissioner N. Ross Thompson III explained how their latest report on streamlining acquisition could help the DOD with workforce woes.

  • Lauren C. Williams, Defense Systems
Threats

Army quietly booting immigrant recruits; 3 out, 1 in at Bolton’s NSC; Pompeo’s soundtrack; Air Force’s $1,200 coffee cups; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Marcus Weisgerber
Ideas

The Rise of Iraq's Young Secularists

On Facebook and in the cafés of decimated Mosul, they envision a country free from political Islam. Do they have a shot?

  • Alice Su, The Atlantic
Threats

Deputy Commander in Iraq Misused Staff for Personal Tasks

IG absolves Brig. Gen. Rick Uribe of charges he wore unearned medals and skipped weigh-ins.

  • Charles S. Clark
Policy

Trump Not Planning to Threaten US Troop Withdrawal from Europe; Solo Putin Meeting Was His Idea

Previewing the NATO Summit and Putin meeting, officials say Trump has the facts on Russian meddling, wants Putin meeting to start "dialogue."

  • Kevin Baron
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