Tag: USA

US Space Force awards $67M deal to Raytheon to test prototype weather satellite (Nathan Strout, Defense News)

The U.S. Space Force has awarded Raytheon Technologies a $67 million contract to test a prototype weather system the company designed for the service,...
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US Air Force blows up a target with a cruise missile from a cargo plane (Stephen Losey, Defense News)

The U.S. Air Force on Thursday destroyed a target in the Gulf of Mexico with a cruise missile launched from the back of a...
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The T-7 takes shape: Inside the factory where the Air Force’s next trainer is being built (Stephen Losey, Defense News)

In a factory in St. Louis that once helped launch the U.S. space program, the Air Force’s next generation of training aircraft is taking shape. Boeing’s T-7A...
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U.S.-EU Green Steel Alliance Confronts China’s Excess Steel Production (William Yuen Yee, The Jamestown Foundation)

After striking a deal to terminate the U.S.-European Union bilateral dispute over steel and aluminum tariffs, U.S. President Joseph Biden hailed the opportunity to...
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How equity isn’t built into the infrastructure bill—and ways to fix it (Carlos Martín, Andre M. Perry, and Anthony Barr, Brookings)

By all measures, the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) signed into law last month is a massive, once-in-a-generation outlay. But as...
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Inequitable fines and fees hurt vulnerable communities. Now, policymakers have an opportunity for reform (Tonantzin Carmona, Brookings)

As the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated economic insecurity for millions of people across the U.S., many cities instituted policies and programs aimed at providing some relief to...
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What did the Fed do in response to the COVID-19 crisis? (Eric Milstein and David Wessel, Brookings)

The coronavirus crisis in the United States—and the associated business closures, event cancellations, and work-from-home policies—triggered a deep economic downturn. The sharp contraction and...
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U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission – Highlights of the November-December Edition

China’s Domestic Economy Quarterly Review of China’s Economy: China’s economic growth slowed to 4.9 percent year-on-year in Q3 2021, according to official statistics, as credit...
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The Sixth U.S.-ROK Senior Economic Dialogue (US Department of State)

On December 17, 2021, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Jose W. Fernandez and the ROK Vice Minister...
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DISA’s milCloud 2.0 to Sunset in Summer 2022 (Brandi Vincent, Nextgov)

The Pentagon’s information technology arm confirmed plans to cease the use of its milCloud 2.0 cloud service in 2022, marking the impending end to...
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Cyber Workforce Bill Clears Senate (Alexandra Kelley, Nextgov)

A bill that would allocate more government resources to strengthen the federal cybersecurity workforce advanced through the Senate on Wednesday. The Federal Rotational Cyber Workforce Program...
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Diplomacy Is ‘No Longer Sufficient’ To Prevent Russian Escalation, Lithuanian Defense Chief Says (Jacqueline Feldscher, Defense One)

The Biden administration should not wait for further Russian escalation to impose consequences on Moscow and support Ukraine, Lithuania’s top military official said Thursday. President...
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Orbital Insight to build AI for intelligence community based on artificial data (Nathan Strout, Defense News)

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has selected a team of commercial and academic partners to build an artificial intelligence system with synthetic data, which will...
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US Air Force cyber team demonstrates first ever in-flight mission (Mark Pomerleau, Defense News)

A U.S. Air Force mission defense team demonstrated the ability to conduct near real-time cyber threat analysis aboard an for the first time earlier...
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US Navy Triton UAV returns from Guam, ahead of transition to more capable variant (Megan Eckstein, Defense News)

One of two U.S. Navy MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial vehicles operating in the Pacific for the last two years has returned home, allowing the...
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Biden Administration Aligns With Kremlin Push for Minsk ‘Agreements’ on Ukraine (Part Three) (Vladimir Socor, The Jamestown Foundation)

Recent statements by the United States—namely, the White House and the State Department—reveal the misunderstanding and/or improper use of the vocabulary related to Russia’s...
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