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Today’s D Brief: Hearing set for SecDef pick; Guards’ wildfire work; CNO’s new dashboard;…
SecDef confirmation hearing set for Jan. 14. Pete Hegseth, who is Donald Trump’s announced nominee to succeed Lloyd Austin as U.S. defense secretary, will go before the newly GOP-controlled Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday.…
A new dashboard is helping the CNO keep tabs on readiness and more
Instead of juggling reports from around the Navy to stay up-to-date on the fleet, these days the chief of naval operations can pull up a monitoring tool on her computer to find exactly what she’s looking for.Now part of her weekly routine,…
The D Brief: Allies reel over annexation talk; Ukraine donors set production goals; Navy’s…
SecDef Austin’s last trip to Europe America’s European allies are reeling from President-elect Trump’s talk of annexing Greenland and Canada, Defense One’s Patrick Tucker reports from the Pentagon-led Ukraine Defense Contact Group,…
Kyiv’s donors set production goals to regularize arms donations to Ukraine
RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany–The members of the Ukraine-aid coordination group have agreed goals for production of arms and equipment for donation to the besieged country, the Pentagon’s acquisition chief said on Thursday. That will…
The Henry Ford of satellite buses?
LOS ANGELES—Even as satellites have proliferated, their buses—the main body and structural components—have generally remained bespoke affairs. Now a California startup aims to manufacture a line of buses that takes just a few weeks to…
New threats pushing Air Force and Army to rethink approach to base defense
Pentagon officials are devising new plans to defend air bases worldwide—plans that prioritize collaboration across all the military services, rather than relying solely on the Army for protection. The growing threat of long-range…
US has ‘a lot of work to do’ on network defenses, departing cyber czar says
As White House cyber-policy lead, Harry Coker has helped oversee efforts to develop the federal workforce, harmonize regulations, and promote memory-safe programming. On Tuesday, the outgoing National Cyber…
The D Brief: ‘Imperialistic land grabs’; Trump’s conflicts of interest; Ukraine aid planning; AI…
Spotlight on TrumpPresident-elect Donald Trump has seized headlines with another extreme suggestion: leaving open the possibility of using military or economic force to expand U.S. territory by annexing Greenland, Canada, and/or the Panama…
New Orleans attack a reminder of ongoing ISIS threat
The New Year’s Day terror attack in New Orleans is a warning that ISIS, and foreign terror groups in general, still have influence in the United States, the Pentagon’s civilian head of special operations said Tuesday.Though the Islamic…
As the US and China race to the Moon, loopholes in space law could allow conflict
Outer space is infinite, but that hasn’t stopped humans trying to impose their laws on it. There are more ways for people to travel to space than ever before, and the next few decades are likely to see the…
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