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USA/RUSSIA – Russia playing political games, stalling progress in Mediterranean: Pompeo (Al Arabiya)

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday blasted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov over comments that the US is playing political games in...

USA/CISA/FEDERAL AGENCIES – CISA Orders Federal Agencies to Turn Off SolarWinds Products (Aaron Boyd, Nextgov)

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ordered all government departments by noon Monday to identify and shut off instances of SolarWinds Orion software running or connected...

USA/PENTAGON – Pentagon Risks Falling Short on Electromagnetic Spectrum Goals, GAO Finds (Mila Jasper, Nextgov)

The Defense Department is failing to address challenges related to managing the electromagnetic spectrum—which the agency says is essential for facilitating control in operations—due...

USA/ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE – What Trump’s Order on Trustworthy AI Might Mean for Agencies (Brandi Vincent, Nextgov)

An executive order recently signed by President Donald Trump governing the federal government’s use of “trustworthy artificial intelligence” goes beyond setting uniform principles for most agencies...

U.S. EMBASSIES/HIGH POWER MICROWAVES – Scientists Suggest U.S. Embassies Were Hit with High-Power Microwaves – Here’s How the Weapons Work (Edl Schamiloglu, Nextgov)

The mystery ailment that has afflicted U.S. embassy staff and CIA officers off and on over the last four years in Cuba, China, Russia...

UK/INDO PACIFIC – Britain tilts towards the Indo-Pacific (James Rogers, The Strategist)

https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/britain-tilts-towards-the-indo-pacific/

AUSTRALIA/SOVEREIGN DEFENCE INDUSTRY – Cutting-edge simulation facility planned for Townsville (David Burke, The Strategist)

https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/cutting-edge-simulation-facility-planned-for-townsville/

AUSTRALIA – Defence risks explosion in external workforce costs (Marcus Hellyer, The Strategist)

https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/defence-risks-explosion-in-external-workforce-costs/

AUSTRALIA/COVID19/SUPPLY CHAINS/SOVEREIGN CAPABILITY – What the coronarvirus crisis has taught us about supply chains and sovereign capability (Anthony Bergin, ASPI)

The supply chain vulnerabilities exposed by the pandemic have important lessons for other types of emergencies. https://www.aspi.org.au/opinion/what-coronarvirus-crisis-has-taught-us-about-supply-chains-and-sovereign-capability  

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