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Boeing gets nod to start building Germany’s P-8 anti-submarine aircraft (Sebastian Sprenger, Defense News)

Boeing has inked a contract with the U.S. Navy to produce five P-8A Poseidon maritime surveillance and anti-submarine aircraft destined for the German sea...

US Army trains forces across military on tools to fight drones (Adam Stone, Defense News)

Part of the U.S. Army’s lead role in standardizing anti-drone strategies across the armed forces is a joint training effort on a suite of...

An autonomous robot may have already killed people — here’s how the weapons could be more destabilizing than nukes (James Dawes, Defense News)

Autonomous weapon systems — commonly known as killer robots — may have killed human beings for the first time ever last year, according to a recent...

China preps rollout of a new carrier-based fighter jet (Mike Yeo, Defense News)

China will debut its next-generation, carrier-borne fighter jet later this year, according to the country’s main state-owned aerospace conglomerate and the chief designer of...

Italy funds arming of its Reaper drones (Tom Kington, Defense News)

Italy has announced plans to arm its Reaper drones, six years after it first received permission from the U.S. to do so. Rome detailed planned...

Ukraine is set to buy 24 Turkish drones. So why hasn’t Russia pushed back? (Burak Ege Bekdil, Defense News)

 Ukraine hopes to quickly turn around a contract to buy 24 drones from Turkey, but the former’s adversary and the latter’s ally could upend...

Digital banks and the transformation of Malaysia’s financial landscape (Kim Leng Yeah, East Asia Forum)

Malaysia’s push into digital banking is gathering pace. The central bank’s decision to issue up to five digital bank licences in the first quarter...

AUKUS is deeper than just submarines (Arzan Tarapore, East Asia Forum)

Nuclear-powered submarines for Australia was the most eye-catching part of the announcement of ‘AUKUS’, the new trilateral security initiative joining Australia, the United Kingdom...

How to account for small business interests in President Biden’s Modernizing Regulatory Review Initiative (Reeve T. Bull, Brookings)

On his first day in office, President Biden issued a memorandum titled “Modernizing Regulatory Review,” which made it clear that his administration would be...

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