Tag: Defense One

General Makes Case For Army’s Role In The Indo-Pacific (Caitlin M. Kenney, Defense One)

The Army’s top officer in the Pacific is reminding people that the service’s capabilities and contributions as a land force is as important to...

How China Is Planning For a Tech Decoupling (Alex Stone, Peter W. Singer, Defense One)

Rising tensions between the U.S. and China and the recognition of a new kind of race for technological advantage has led Washington to tighten...

US Army Is Scrutinizing Itself, Must Change Swiftly to Face China, Secretary Says (Caitlin M. Kenney, Defense One)

The U.S. Army is analyzing its force structure, infrastructure, modernization programs, and readiness in a bid to figure out how it can best focus...

Pentagon’s Top Science Official Adds to Tech-Breakthrough Wishlist (Patrick Tucker, Defense One)

When Heidi Shyu was nominated to be defense undersecretary for research and engineering, the longtime Army acquisition executive set out to trim the long list of...

4 C’s Drive Biden Administration’s First Naval Strategic Guidance (Caitlin M. Kenney, Defense One)

The “Four C’s: China, Culture, Climate Change, and COVID” are the naval services’ “most pressing” challenges, Carlos Del Toro writes in his first strategic...

Mind the ‘Middle Powers’ Gap (Colin P. Clarke, Ph.D., Mollie Saltskog, Defense One)

Weak states can pose as great a danger to U.S. national interests as strong ones, President George W. Bush declared after the 9/11 attacks, and...

It’s Not Misinformation. It’s Amplified Propaganda (Renée DiResta, Defense One)

One Sunday morning in July of last year, a message from an anonymous account appeared on “Bernie or Vest,” a Discord chat server for fans of Senator...

New DOD Climate Plan: Adjust Ops, Training, Gear for Extreme Weather (Tara Copp, Defense One)

From hurricane winds that ravage military bases to monster wildfires that shut down exercises, extreme weather is forcing the military to rapidly shift how...

Army to Open Centers For Reporting Sexual Assault, Harassment (Caitlin M.Kenney, Defense One)

The Army will open seven centers for sexual assault and harassment survivors in a bid to improve reporting, care, and justice, service officials said...

Bell Picks Rolls-Royce Engine for V-280 Valor in Army Black Hawk Replacement Contest (Marcus Weisgerber, Defense One)

Bell plans to install a version of the Rolls-Royce-made V-22 Osprey engine in the V-280 Valor— an aircraft the company is pitching in a...

Active-Duty Suicide Rate Hit Record High in 2020 (Caitilin M. Kenney, Defense One)

The suicide rate for active-duty troops rose to 28.7 per 100,000 last year, up from 26.3 the previous year, according to the latest edition...

How Well Can AI Pick Targets From Satellite Photos? Army Test Aims to Find Out (Patrick Tucker, Defense One)

Two live GBU-32 bombs will be dropped on range targets selected by an artificial-intelligence tool on Thursday, part of a U.S. Army effort to...

The Pentagon’s New Climate Plan Aims to Manage the Unavoidable (John Conger, Defense One)

The Pentagon’s new Climate Adaptation Plan, released Oct. 7, is in many ways a follow-on strategy to the 2014 Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap. Having led the development...

NSA Cyber Chief Spells Out Near-Term Priorities (Brandi Vincent, Defense One)

Ensuring the U.S. has next-generation encryption necessary for the post-quantum era and reversing the recent increase in fallout from ransomware attacks are among National...

Keep The US Retreat from Afghanistan From Emboldening China (C. Anthony Pfaff, Defense One)

China lost no time in attempting to use the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan to weaken Taipei’s faith in Washington’s ability to deter Beijing and...

Pentagon Begins ‘Continuous Vetting’ of All Troops for Insider Threats, Extremism; Social Media May Come Next (Patrick Tucker, Defense One)

All Defense Department personnel are now subject to “continuous vetting” designed to spot extremists and other insider threats, with surveillance of their public social-media...