Ideas
The Chance of Accidental Nuclear War Is Growing
Recapitalizing the U.S. nuclear deterrent won't help. What's missing is a strategy and resources to reduce risks of cataclysmic accidents, miscalculation, and human error.
Defense Systems
Air Force Research Lab IT awards $97M IT contract
Three companies win spots on a five-year, $97.3 million contract for IT support services.
Business
Pentagon Warns CEOs: Protect Your Data or Lose Our Contracts
Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan says cybersecurity should be a top priority for its contractors.
Science & Tech
The Marines Are Giving Quadcopters to Every Squad
The Corps says new robots, tech, and video games will keep Marines on the tactical edge.
Science & Tech
How Long Did the US Government Know about Spectre and Meltdown?
The largest CPU bug in history caught the Defense Department by surprise. Or not.
Threats
Mattis: New Sea-Launched Cruise Missile Is a Bargaining Chip
But don’t call the low-yield option a ‘tactical nuclear weapon’ — it’s still strategic, he says.
Ideas
Inside The World's Most Radical Experiment in Women’s Rights
The women’s movement in northern Syria is more like a women’s earthquake, in politics, governance, and the region's security.
Business
What ‘Buy America’ Looks Like at an Overseas Air Show
State Department officials say they’re upping their presence at the Singapore Airshow this week as part of the administration’s push to sell more arms abroad.
Ideas
An Advise-and-Assist Commander Has Advice for the US Army's New Partner-Trainers
Security Force Assistance Brigades, or SFABs, are a great concept, but even the best ideas have limitations and room for improvement.
Policy
How the Nunes Memo Harms Intelligence Oversight
The document’s lasting effect will be undermining the ability of Congress to prevent political abuses of surveillance powers.
Business
US Air Force Looks For New Ways to Buy, Protect Satellites
Ideas include smaller constellations — perhaps even spacecraft built to commercial standards.
Threats
Meet the Believers: The Afghanistan War’s US Commanders are Ready For a Reboot
What's different this time? New rules, new plan, new firepower, new hope.
Defense Systems
Strengthening the soldier with exoskeletons
The Army wants an exoskeleton to improve strength, endurance and ergonomics of warfighters.
Business
Booz Allen Hamilton Wins $621 Million DHS Cyber Contract
The six-year project will expand the continuous diagnostics and mitigation services DHS provides to other agencies.
Science & Tech
China's Surveillance State Should Scare Everyone
The country is perfecting a vast network of digital espionage as a means of social control—with implications for democracies worldwide.
Ideas
How Trump Just Might Close Guantanamo Prison
The president asked SecDef and Congress to ensure that detention policies support warfighting aims. That should mean shutting Gitmo down.
Defense Systems