Targeting FBI Budget Makes Us More Vulnerable on Cyber
EXPERT PERSPECTIVE / OPINION: The House Appropriations Committee is proposing significant cuts to the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) budget, a move at odds with […] More
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Audits show the Pentagon’s Numbers Aren’t Completely Adding up
OPINION — “Because of the [Defense] Department’s global scale, we have three million people on our payrolls; a health-care system that serves more than nine […] More
A Turkey by any other name
OPINION — On the eve of our most American holiday, let me wish all a hearty appetite as they carve their Roman chicken, Ethiopian rooster, […] More
Biden’s Plan for a New Nuclear Bomb
OPINION — “On October 27, the Department of Defense announced that the United States will pursue a modern variant of the B61 nuclear gravity bomb, […] More
Director Burns’ Middle East Mission
SUBSCRIBER+EXCLUSIVE REPORTING – CIA Director Bill Burns is in the Middle East as part of a Biden Administration push to ease tensions in the region […] More
Senator Tuberville: A One Man National Security Threat
OPINION — “For months, Senator [Tommy] Tuberville [R-Ala.] has said, if individual nominees are brought up for a vote one at a time, he will […] More
Training for a Combat Ready Force in Space
OPINION — “We used to fly satellites a long time on orbit. We weren’t thinking about combat attrition. Likewise, we weren’t thinking about space operations […] More
Warning Signs for How Generative AI Will Impact the Next Election
OPINION – As state and non-state actors aim to disrupt elections by any means available while still affording plausible deniability, one of the newest tools […] More
The Dawn of Our Nuclear Wake-Up Call
OPINION – A list of proposals released last Thursday in the final report of the 12-member bipartisan Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the […] More
A Guide to Last Week’s Path to Potential Shutdown
OPINION — “Here on the House floor, we see when extreme MAGA (Make America Great Again), rightwing Republicans don’t get their way, when they lose […] More
Innovative Business Models Can Accelerate Tech for IC Missions
PRIVATE SECTOR PERSPECTIVE — The primacy of U.S. power is facing an unprecedented challenge: A strategic competition with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is […] More
Advantage in Space is Mission Critical
OPINION — “Operations to deny adversary hostile use of space could originate in any domain and target on-orbit, ground, cyber, and/or link segments to reduce […] More
DoD’s Replicator Drone Concept Builds on Lessons Learned in Ukraine
“Small, smart, cheap, and many” is the way Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks describes the characteristics of the drones that the Pentagon intends to put […] More
When is our 9/11 Moment with China?
9/11 fundamentally shifted US foreign policy priorities towards the Middle East. When will we have a similar reckoning with China? OPINION — This year marks the […] More
What’s Impacting Assurance in the U.S. Nuclear Stockpile?
OPINION — In 2014, the nation’s two leading nuclear weapons laboratories, Los Alamos and Livermore, jointly identified “a capability gap” in their ability to evaluate […] More
Uncovering a Relic of a Life Lived at CIA
OPINION — Evolving technology, shifting organizational behaviors, and information overload increasingly tested my decades-old operational instincts and as I looked at retirement options, the progress […] More
Rethinking how the Pentagon spends its money is Mission Critical
OPINION — “Operation and maintenance and military personnel funding [in the Defense Department] typically must be obligated in the year for which they are appropriated. […] More
Exclusive Interview: Tracking the U.S. National Intelligence Strategy
SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW – The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is offering some rather overt clues about just how the country’s 18 […] More