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CISA should abandon disinformation fight, Trump’s DHS pick says
America’s main cybersecurity agency needs to be smaller and should no longer fight misinformation and disinformation, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the Department of Homeland Security said Friday.In…
Today’s D Brief: Israel pounds Gaza; Navy’s readiness plan; UK, Ukraine ink 100-year pact; ‘Remember…
Tel Aviv mulls ceasefireWith security group’s OK, decision moves to full cabinet. A ceasefire deal negotiated by Israel and Hamas has cleared the national-security subset of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s cabinet, and is…
China’s plan to rule the heavens
The race to return to the Moon and push beyond has entered a new, more intense phase. While Elon Musk and NASA have been arguing over whether to go to the Moon or Mars, China's recently published space-sciences plan declares its intent to…
New strategy aims to get 80% of Navy ships deployable
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti set a goal for the Navy last fall that she conceded might be a little aspirational: to have 80 percent of the Navy’s fleet ready to deploy at any given time by 2027.Monday, Naval Sea Systems…
Money alone won’t fix the Navy’s shipbuilding woes, lawmaker says
Congress may need to “micromanage” the Navy’s efforts to boost the submarine industrial base going forward, after the service asked for billions of dollars in supplemental funding requests last year on top of the annual budget, said Sen.…
Blue Origin’s rocket reaches orbit on first flight, promising competition for SpaceX
The heavy-lift New Glenn rocket reached orbit during its maiden flight on Thursday, bringing Blue Origin, a private company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, one step closer to competing with launch titan SpaceX. The rocket blasted…
Trump to tap NRO official as Air Force secretary
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Troy Meink, currently principal deputy director of the National Reconnaissance Office, to lead the Department of the Air Force.“Troy will work with our incredible Secretary of Defense Nominee, Pete…
The D Brief: Gaza ceasefire?; House intel chair, fired; INDOPACOM’s gen-AI test; Navy’s…
Officials from the U.S. and Qatar say they’ve reached an agreeable ceasefire for Israel and Hamas, potentially ending more than 15 months of war that’s killed more than 46,000 Palestinians and caused more than two million people to flee…
Shield AI to train Ukrainians on jam-resistant drones
A new deal to train Ukrainian drone operators will boost the country’s ability to launch long-range, jam-resistant strikes, the president of Shield AI told Defense One.In an interview, Brandon Tseng said the deal, which is being announced…
Disparaged, discontinued…and indispensable? Littoral combat ships take on real-world ops
The Navy may have capped its fleet of much-anticipated—and much-maligned—littoral combat ships at 28 for now, but their commanders haven’t stopped trying to squeeze every last ounce of capability out of them.LCSs deployed to the Persian…
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