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The Office of Personnel Management has authorized the extension of a premium pay cap waiver for civilian employees serving in Iraq, following President Joe Biden’s continuation of a national emergency declaration that dates back to the 2003…

SOMEWHERE IN NEVADA — On a scorching August afternoon some 10 miles away from the DEF CON hacker conference situated in the heart of the Las Vegas strip, White House National Cyber Director Harry Coker and a small group of his staff were…

Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States are exempting each other from key export controls, a bid to streamline industrial collaboration under their three-year-old AUKUS tech-sharing agreement, officials said Thursday.“Together,…

A tranche of privately distributed training videos for aspiring political appointees in the next Republican presidential administration developed by the controversial Project 2025 transition project stop short of overtly discussing GOP…

LAS VEGAS — Presidential election interference, a once-in-a-generation pandemic, the SolarWinds Orion hack and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are just a small sampling of what Gen. Paul Nakasone witnessed during his time leading the National…

A well-respected hacker who previously filed a whistleblower complaint alleging that then-Twitter was misleading the public about its security practices said on Tuesday that he is returning to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency…

If the U.S. Army found itself at war, American manufacturers would struggle to produce the large number of high-quality small drones that the service would likely need—unless the Pentagon increases its support for drone producers, and…

The Senate on Thursday confirmed Michael Sulmeyer to be assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy at the Pentagon, the first individual to hold the position.Sulmeyer has served as the principal cyber advisor to the secretary of the…

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii—A lower-than-expected defense budget for 2025 won’t affect Germany’s military presence in the Indo-Pacific region “in any way,” and will not stop the country from meeting its pledge to spend 2% of its gross domestic…

MANILA, Philippines—A new “convergence” of Asian nations including Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines is reshaping the security environment of the Indo-Pacific, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told a crowd here this…