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The US Military Should Be Doubling Down on Space
Commercial innovation is slashing costs and boosting capabilities fast enough to remain useful even as antisatellite weapons improve.
Ideas
Two Ways to Read the Newest Intelligence on North Korea
Is Kim Jong Un serious about denuclearizing? Or is he out to trick the United States?
Defense Systems
Senate passes 2019 NDAA
The 2019 National Defense Authorization Act heads to the White House, avoiding a late-year debate, after the Senate passed the conference report 87-10.
Ideas
Ep.14: Natasha Bertrand of The Atlantic; Space Force moves ahead; Future of the Iran deal? and more.
Welcome to our podcast about the news, strategy, tech, and business trends defining the future of national security.
Defense Systems
Army seeks support for cyber risk management
The Army wants industry help to support its Defensive Cyberspace Operations organization with cybersecurity risk management services.
Policy
DHS Creates Cyber Risk Center to Protect High-Value Targets
The center will free up NCCIC to work on cyber threat sharing and incident response, officials say.
Ideas
The US Military Should Not Be Doubling Down on Space
Satellites are only getting harder to defend. The Pentagon needs to find a better way to do its C4ISR and precision-navigation-timing missions.
Policy
Pentagon Delays Space Force Report
The day after Defense One published details from an 11th-hour draft of the much-anticipated report, the Pentagon has delayed its release.
Science & Tech
Surveillance Cameras Will Soon Divine Your Personality from Eye Movements
Machine-learning techniques promise to make biometric data far more useful for intelligence gathering.
Science & Tech
Kremlin Hackers Take Aim at the Swiss Lab That’s Working the Skripal Poisoning Case
The group that attacked Ukraine's power grid is phishing a chemical-weapons lab critical to the Skripal case.
Ideas
Sweden’s Raging Forest Fires Show the Value of Allies
As wildfires raged through the country’s northern reaches, EU allies dispatched hundreds of firefighters and scores of trucks and aircraft.
Defense Systems
JEDI's 'pathfinder' designation hedges against single provider model
Industry reacts to the Defense Department’s final proposal request for its Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud program.
Policy
EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon To Start Creating Space Force — Even Before Congress Approves It
Within months, DoD will start standing up a new combatant command, a new space-procurement agency, and a new Space Operations Force.
Ideas
Donald Trump Is Falling in Love With Summits
In offering to meet with Iran’s leader, the president sticks to what’s becoming a familiar pattern.
Science & Tech
Satellite Imagery + Social Media = A New Way to Spot Emerging Nuclear Threats
A research team is training computers to find and fuse clues from wildly different rivers of digital data.
Policy
How Russia Persecutes Its Dissidents Using US Courts
Russia’s requests to Interpol for Red Notices—the closest instrument to an international arrest warrant—against Kremlin opponents are being met with increasing deference by the Department of Homeland Security.
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