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Shipbuilders swarm Capitol Hill to lobby for aircraft carrier funding
Shipbuilders went to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to plead for $600 million in advanced funding to keep aircraft carrier suppliers in production—an ask that comes amid delays, uncertain funding, worries of an aging fleet and recent Pentagon…
How a beatdown at sea turned Russia’s navy into China’s junior partner
Away from the grueling land battles and devastating airstrikes, the Ukraine war has from its outset had a naval element. Soon after the February 2022 invasion, Russia imposed a de facto naval blockade on Ukraine, only to see…
The D Brief: More Yemen-chat details released; Troops patrolling border; Ukraine ceasefire…
Yemen OPSEC fail, cont.After a day of repeated denials in sworn testimony, top White House intelligence officials are back on Capitol Hill for a hearing on worldwide threats before House lawmakers on the intelligence committee. CIA Director…
‘Nothing will be safe’ from Army’s kit overhaul
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.—There’s no such thing as a standard gear set-up from squad to squad in the Army, the chief of infantry said Tuesday, and none of it is designed to work together.So the service finds itself in a place where a dismounted…
Heads must roll for Signal-chat debacle
In his bombshell report in The Atlantic, Jeff Goldberg revealed a stunning violation of national security: the most senior members of the President's team discussed details of military operations and intelligence on the encrypted…
The Army wants to put $1B into Transformation in Contact 2.0
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.—The Army is doubling down on its Transformation in Contact modernization model, the service’s top operations officer said Tuesday—adding more units into the program and multiplying the number of systems they’ll test as well…
‘Sloppy,’ ‘incompetent’ intelligence chiefs hammered for Signal chat
Tuesday's annual "worldwide threats" hearing—intended as a discussion of China, Russia, Iran, transnational criminal organizations, and other actors—devolved instead into something closer to a criminal deposition from Law and Order, with…
The D Brief: SecDef’s OPSEC fail; Natsec team’s debate, revealed; SecNav confirmed; Counterterror…
Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth shared war plans over an unclassified chat app, according to Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. Goldberg was added, apparently accidentally, to a Signal group chat used by the defense secretary,…
Can this GPS alternative keep a drone from crashing?
AUSTIN, Texas—A drone without a GPS signal is virtually useless, drifting listlessly with the wind until connection is re-established or it crashes. But a geospatial intelligence company has developed software to overcome that problem,…
Pentagon’s use of commercial telecoms draw scrutiny after Chinese breaches
The Pentagon’s inspector general is launching a three-pronged investigation into the department’s “failure to secure its unclassified telephone communications from foreign espionage,” a top IG official has informed lawmakers.The inquest,…
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