Threats
Turkey Tells US To Withdraw Weapons, Support for Syrian Rebels
In Washington, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim rejected the U.S. desire to keep supporting Syrian Kurdish rebel forces even after ISIS is finished.
Defense Systems
Air Force looks to Dell, Microsoft & GDIT to accelerate massive cloud migration
$1 billion enterprise services deal said to be among largest U.S. cloud contracts.
Defense Systems
Army pushes recruiting and retaining cyber talent
The Army is taking aggressive steps to strengthen its cyber workforce through a series of ongoing evaluations.
Science & Tech
A Short-Staffed US Air Force Wants Robots to Do More Human Jobs
The service’s top general says new systems, from bombs to buildings, must be able to think, share, and learn.
Policy
‘Indo-Pacific’ Is the Trump Administration’s New Name for Asia
Why it matters: Chinese media and leaders pay a lot of attention to fine details like this.
Science & Tech
Russian, Chinese Companies Win Intel Community's Facial Recognition Contest
Moscow-based NTechlab won two categories of IARPA’s facial recognition challenge.
Science & Tech
Russia Says It Will Field a Robot Tank that Outperforms Humans
A colonel who runs a research directorate says the Nehreta did well in recent exercises at proving grounds outside Moscow.
Defense Systems
New Army commercial cloud deal offers smartphone chat, video & voice
An AT&T Unified Capabilities deal will expedite cloud-based voice, video, chat and data services.
Ideas
Here’s How the US Army Should Arm Itself for New Threats
Stop hoping for a funding bump and start making existing weapons work better together.
Policy
Saudi Arabia’s New Strongman Wants the Kingdom to Become a Middle East Arms Powerhouse
The crown prince’s surprise arrests of rivals puts him in position to execute a sweeping diversification of the country’s economy.
Ideas
Pentagon: We Want You — to Get Us Into The Cloud Much Faster
We need the private sector's help to vault DOD into the world of elastic computing and machine learning.
Ideas
It Took Comfort 39 Days to Get Pierside in Puerto Rico. That's a National-Security Problem.
The hospital ship's poor utilization suggests that the US military's biomedical support doctrine needs shoring up.
Defense Systems
Army produces new lightweight tactical vest
The next generation tactical vest is lightweight and scalable, and may be deployed as early as next year.
Threats
Saudi Arabia's Very Public, Very Risky Palace Intrigue
The arrest of 11 senior figures, including one of the world’s richest men, is a sign of the crown prince’s consolidation of power.
Threats
3 Cities Making Downtowns Safe from Vehicle Attacks
After the truck attack in Manhattan, there’s no excuse for a limited imagination when it comes to safer streets.
Policy
15 Things We Learned from the Internet Giants
The key takeaways from three days of testimony about Russia’s electoral mischief during the 2016 election.
Defense Systems