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As new ICBM’s cost soars, a few lawmakers are trying to rein it in
Lawmakers are failing to provide enough oversight of the Air Force’s program to build the next intercontinental ballistic missile, whose projected cost has swelled past $130 billion, said Rep. John Garamendi.“We want Congress to do its job,…
The D Brief: Russia’s resiliency; B-1 over Korea; Dueling budget proposals; New border limits; And a…
Russia’s war machine is moving into overdrive: Norway’s defense chief thinks NATO has just two to three years to rebuild its military stocks before Russia has renewed its own ability to attack alliance members in Europe, Bloomberg reported…
As space gets more crowded, Pentagon looks to AI to spot weapons
The Defense Department has been warning of the growing risks of weapons in space, but the massive increase in objects about to enter low-Earth orbit will make tracking potential weapons even harder. A California company called Slingshot…
Biden puts limits on asylum requests at the US-Mexico border
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Tuesday issued an executive order that will allow him to partially suspend asylum requests at the U.S.-Mexico border when daily unauthorized crossings reach a threshold of 2,500 migrants. “I’ve come…
House defense bills on collision course over F-35, second sub
House appropriators want to buy more F-35 fighters but don’t want to fund a second attack submarine in fiscal 2025, a split from House authorizers’ own defense policy proposal. The House Appropriations committee’s $833 billion spending…
The D Brief: Strikes inside Russia; Big ammo orders; Nakasone on ‘cyber force’; DOD skips primes for…
Russia’s Ukraine invasion, day 831: Ukrainian forces appear to have used donated missiles to attack military targets inside Russia following the authorizations made public last week by officials in Europe and in Washington. That…
A leading military simulation tool gets an AI upgrade
Over the Memorial Day weekend, The Telegraph posted an interesting article about how the U.S. military was working to protect its new aid pier in Gaza—not from conventional forces, but from drones. According to the…
Biden threatens veto as GOP outlines proposed FY25 cuts
House Republicans are moving their initial fiscal 2025 funding bills, laying out specifics of where they intend to make drastic cuts across agencies and drawing stark rejections from the White House. The House Appropriations…
Pentagon looks beyond primes for cheaper drones
The Pentagon has picked four non-traditional defense contractors to develop drones that can be produced en masse and “on-call,” acknowledging that industry giants might not be up to providing the relatively inexpensive uncrewed systems that…
‘I feel really good’ about election security, former NSA chief says
Two months after retiring as head of the National Security Agency and Cyber Command, Gen. Paul Nakasone is confident that the U.S. intelligence community and private sector have everything they need to detect and respond to possible U.S.…
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