Policy
Landmark Iran Deal Gains Enough Support To Override GOP Veto
With the backing of Maryland Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski, Democrats now have enough votes in the Senate to ensure the nuclear agreement survives.
Ideas
What Congress Can Learn from the Military About Cybersecurity
As it stands, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act won’t much improve information-sharing. Here's how to change that.
Defense Systems
OPM, DOD to spend up to $330M on ID protection
The 21.5 million people affected by the hack of OPM databases will receive up to three years of credit monitoring and identity services.
Defense Systems
DISA's new cyber HQ starting to branch out
The agency's Joint Force Headquarters is intended to take some of the defensive pressure off of the U.S. Cyber Command.
Policy
Pentagon Team Heads to Charleston to Assess Guantanamo Alternative
Amid a last push to close the detention facility in Cuba, the Obama administration is giving the naval brig in South Carolina a fresh look.
Ideas
10 Responses to Iran-Deal Skeptics
The top lobbyist for the agreement, along with John Kerry’s former chief of staff, tackle a prominent critic’s questions for President Obama.
Science & Tech
US Revives New-Look 'Virtual Fence' Along Its Southern Border
The Department of Homeland Security is installing sensor-studded turrets in pockets of Arizona to curb human trafficking and drug smuggling.
Ideas
Survey: 2/3 of Natsec Pros Give Iran Deal Thumbs Down
A Defense One survey finds deep skepticism among U.S. active-duty military and civilian government employees in national-security jobs.
Ideas
The West Point Professor Who Contemplated a Coup
A controversial law professor resigns after calling his intellectual opponents treasonous, and perhaps exaggerating his credentials.
Defense Systems
Danzig: Analog has value in countering cyber threats
The former Navy secretary recommends some unconventional approaches to help meet the cybersecurity challenge. Quantum encryption? Not so much.
Science & Tech
Is This the Warship of the Future?
Laser-armed battleships that print their own drones will have to survive anti-ship missiles plummeting from space.
Ideas
Norfolk, Home To World’s Largest Naval Base, Must Adapt As Waters Rise
This port city is racing to figure out how to deal with harsher storms and elevated sea levels — and it's not alone.
Ideas
The Allure of ISIS Has Reached Long-Stable Ghana
So far, recruits number a tiny handful of people in a nation of 26 million. But Ghanaians should hear alarm bells ringing.
Science & Tech
The Air Force Will Test the F-35 Against the A-10—But Not Until 2018
Is the Warthog better at defending ground troops? The brass wants to know, not that they're in any rush.
Defense Systems
DARPA's Gremlins could cut the costs of attack drones
The program would employ cheap UAS that would be launched from a plane, carry out their missions and then drone home.
Defense Systems