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Rumors of War
Pentagon pushes US dronemakers to innovate as quickly as Ukraine does
A new Pentagon program is pushing drone makers to continuously improve their systems based on troops’ feedback, hoping to spur innovation that moves as quickly as the war in Ukraine.Launched on Monday, the Defense Innovation Office’s…
2026 budget proposal would axe one-third of CISA workforce
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency would lose nearly 1,000 full-time employees under the Trump administration’s proposed fiscal year 2026 budget, a stark downsizing of the government’s frontline civilian cybersecurity…
AUKUS Pillar II Is Failing in Its Mission: It Needs Its Own “Optimal Pathway”
Almost four years on from the launch of the trilateral AUKUS pact, the partners’ Pillar II advanced capabilities effort remains a solution in search of a problem.
Led by lofty shared ambitions in a host of technological areas, rather than…
INDOPACOM brings AI to wargaming exercise
WASHINGTON—The Pentagon has long sought to realize the potential of artificial intelligence to help commanders; now U.S. Indo-Pacific Command is about to use AI-powered decision aids in a signature tabletop exercise.INDOPACOM will put its…
Army scrambles to improve drone training
As drones move toward the center of modern combat, U.S. Army units are scrambling to invent ways to give soldiers the training they need.That includes exploring virtual and small-scale, home-station training environments to get more…
The D Brief: Aid cuts hinder AFRICOM; Fighter-jet warning; State cuts, detailed; Army’s recruiting…
After Trump pulled aid to allied countries, AFRICOM asks for help deterring terrorism. U.S. Africa Command, which does everything from helping the Somalian military target strikes on al-Shabaab to sending Army civil affairs soldiers to…
‘The federal government is gone’: Under Trump, fighting extremist violence is up to the…
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published.Under the watchful gaze of security guards, dozens of people streamed through metal detectors to enter…
A Signal Point of Failure: Integrating BeiDou into U.S. Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Systems
While serving on the National Security Council staff in the Biden administration, I was tasked with strengthening the resilience of U.S. critical infrastructure, namely its reliance on GPS for positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT)…
Air Force Reserve faces steep fighter cuts, uncertain future
The Air Force Reserve is on track to lose nearly half of its fighter jets by the end of the decade, a course its top general warns could sideline the force in conflicts and deepen the military’s pilot crisis. “It takes us out of the…
AFRICOM asks for help deterring terrorism, after Trump pulls aid to allied countries
Deterring the spread of terrorism in Africa and countering China’s push to influence African governments got a lot harder after the Trump administration cut off billions in foreign aid earlier this year, officials say. U.S. Africa…
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