Business
No-Bid Maintenance Contract Sweetens Air Force One Deal for Boeing
A newly released contracting document reveals details about the $3.9 billion deal to buy and modify two 747s for presidential use.
Ideas
Trump, Iran, and the Dangers of Presidential Bluffing
Last year, the president’s threats targeted North Korea. The outcome holds lessons for a new round of threats.
Science & Tech
This Stealthy Drone May Be The Future of Russian Fighter Jets
Russian industry sources called this heavy armed stealth drone a prototype for their sixth-generation aircraft.
Science & Tech
Computers Have Found a Better Way to Spot Emailed Malware, Researchers Say
Somehow no one thought of applying machine learning to malicious email in exactly this way. But the results are big.
Science & Tech
China’s Robot Subs Will Lean Heavily on AI: Report
The leader of the classified 912 Project gives a rare interview. The question, as always, is why.
Defense Systems
Nakasone: Engagement with industry essential, even amid ethics concerns
Even when companies are reticent about working with the Defense Department, engagement is critical, NSA Director and U.S. Cyber Command head Gen. Paul Nakasone said.
Defense Systems
Pushing innovation beyond buzzwords
With the new Austin-based Futures Command, the Army has the opportunity to "open our aperture and see things differently," said Lt. Col. Chris Cline, the Army's director of strategic plans.
Ideas
Donald Trump’s Reckless Iran Tweet
Why would the president threaten war over such relatively inconsequential words?
Ideas
Faster, Transient, Endless: How America Must Adapt to Today's Great-Power Competition
Three years of Army War College research have revealed the surprising contours of post-primacy security — and the single animating principle that must guide U.S. strategy.
Ideas
What Alexander Hamilton Can Teach Us About Cyber Policy
Let’s apply the first Treasury Secretary’s principles to, say, China’s economic espionage.
Science & Tech
Russia May Put Androids in Orbit Next Year, State Media Says
The mission would be the latest for FEDOR, created for rescue work — and more recently given the ability to shoot guns.
Ideas
The US Must Build Saudi Arabia’s First Nuclear Reactors
Riyadh will get its atomic energy. The question is who gets the construction contracts — and the influence that goes with them.
Defense Systems
A new model for cyber risk management
The IBM Center for The Business of Government proposes a new risk management model that that allows agencies to tailor approaches for particular cyber challenges.
Ideas
Yemen's Fleeting Opportunity for Peace
A deal to stop a bloody fight over Hodeidah has no shot without the full backing of the Saudi-led coalition and the West.
Ideas
Here's How the Russian Military Is Organizing to Develop AI
Harking back to Soviet big science, a 10-point plan calls for new organizations and focus areas, from job training to a giant new R&D campus.
Policy
US Spy Chief: ‘I Don’t Know What Happened’ in Helsinki
Director of National Intelligence Coats got another surprise Thursday: Putin is coming to town.
Ideas
Pompeo’s Choice: Denounce the McFaul Handover, or Lose the World’s Trust
The world is watching to see if he has the courage and the political savvy to truly be a leader in his Department, in this administration, and around the globe.
Ideas