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Hegseth orders suspension of cyber, information operations planning against Russia
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down on cyber- and information-operations planning against Russia, according to a U.S. official and a second person familiar with the order.The move appears to be intended…
The D Brief: Oval Office explosion; Spies target shaken feds; Strykers to the border; China’s battle…
Trump-Ukraine rift deepens U.S. President Donald Trump’s much-touted mineral-access agreement with Ukraine collapsed Friday ahead of a planned signing ceremony with visiting President Volodymir Zelenskyy. But what the world saw in that…
New products show China’s quest to automate battle
The drones that fanned out during a recent People’s Liberation Army exercise were dispatched by the Intelligent Precision Strike System, a new product from Chinese defense giant Norinco that used the UAVs’ real-time data to model the…
After Oval Office disaster, Europe emerges as Ukraine’s best hope
Hours after a heated disagreement in the Oval Office between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, America’s sudden retreat from a democracy-forward foreign policy took dramatic form a bit further down…
Comply with the next ‘what you did last week’ email, Hegseth tells Pentagon civilians
The Defense Department’s civilian employees can expect a second email asking them to lay out what they did the previous week—and this time, they must respond, the defense secretary said in a Thursday memo to his workforce.The 189-word…
A 3D-printed submarine? Not likely, but maybe something close
More and more U.S. warship and submarine parts are being 3D-printed—and now the Navy is going after the “really hard problems,” a top official says.“I could go anywhere in the Navy, and you will see additive manufacturing, but it's not…
The D Brief: Some DOD firings blocked; Consulting, eyed for cuts; SecNav nom speaks; DOGE in the…
DOD firingsProbationary-employee firings on hold. A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to fire thousands of recently hired and promoted federal employees. “The Office of Personnel Management does not have…
Judge orders Trump admin to rescind order to fire probationary employees
A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to rescind directives that caused the mass firings of recently hired and promoted federal employees, ruling that the issuing agency had no such power to do so.“The Office of…
As space becomes more crowded, Space Force turns to AI
The Space Force will need to use AI in new ways to identify and track objects in space—also called “space domain awareness”—as space becomes increasingly congested, the service’s acting deputy chief of space operations for cyber and data…
Trump administration asks agencies to cull consultants
The Trump administration is asking agencies to review their consulting contracts with at least 10 large companies, including some global firms, as part of an effort to cut “non-essential consulting contracts.”The acting head of the General…
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