Ideas
How Much Has the US Spent to Fight Terror? Here's a Guess
Are we spending too much? Too little? The picture is only growing cloudier.
Business
The US Air Force Is Adding Algorithms to Predict When Planes Will Break
The airlines already use predictive maintenance technology. Now the service’s materiel chief says it’s a “must-do for us.”
Defense Systems
DISA discusses next steps for CAC replacement, Encore III
The common access card is on its way out, and its prototype replacements could be in some users' hands by this summer.
Science & Tech
Pentagon Wants Cloud Secure Enough to Hold Nuke Secrets
The Pentagon’s JEDI cloud will be designed to store the military's most sensitive classified information.
Threats
Congress Wrestles with Foreign Infiltration of US Universities
The latest NDAA tries to stop potential adversaries from recruiting talent and stealing innovative technology on campus.
Ideas
A Reckoning for Obama's Foreign-Policy Legacy
Veterans of the last administration are learning a hard lesson: Policies constructed by executive order and executive agreement are just as easily blown up by them.
Threats
The Border Patrol’s ‘Constitution-Free’ Zone Is Probably Larger Than You Think
All of Michigan, D.C., and a large chunk of Pennsylvania are part of the area where Border Patrol has expanded search and seizure rights. Here’s what it means to live or travel there.
Ideas
Hey, Big Tech, Don’t Abandon Uncle Sam’s Cyber Warriors
There’s a dangerously misguided provision in the otherwise laudable accord signed recently by 30 leading tech companies.
Defense Systems
JEDI report to Congress stresses need for speed, standardization
The report criticizes the proliferation of more than 500 cloud acquisition and migration efforts as being "reminiscent of DOD's current legacy information technology environment, which is not optimized for the 21st century."
Ideas
Strip the World’s Worst Actors of a Key Financial Tool
The U.S. and its allies need to rip the veil of secrecy from the anonymous shell corporations that help drug dealers, terror groups, and kleptocratic dictators.
Ideas
The US Should Embrace the EU’s New Defense-Cooperation Plan
After years of complaining that Europe isn’t doing enough to defend itself, concerns about U.S. arms exports are misplaced.
Ideas
'All Is Shambles': The Days After the Iran Deal
Prominent advocates for withdrawal grappled too little with the possibility that the president cannot pull this off.
Defense Systems
DOD's new health record system isn't suitable for use
MHS Genesis, the $3.4 billion commercial health record system being installed across the Department of Defense, was found to be operationally ineffective and unsuitable in a scathing internal oversight report.
Ideas
Pass the Corker-Kaine AUMF
Its critics misunderstand the 17-year evolution of the fight against violent extremist groups, and risk letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Ideas
Ep. 3: Bye-bye, Iran deal; Hello, North Korea; Future of special ops in Niger and more.
Welcome to episode three of our weekly podcast about the news, strategy, tech, and business trends defining the future of national security.
Defense Systems
