Tag: USA

U.S. House Passes Defense Bill Allocating Funding For Ukraine’s Military, Baltic Stability (RFE RL)

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a $770 billion defense bill that provides funding for Ukraine's military and Baltic stability and pushes back...

Biden Warns Of Sanctions If Russia Invades Ukraine; Putin Calls For ‘Guarantees’ Against NATO Expansion (Mike Eckel, RFE RL)

U.S. President Joe Biden warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that Russia would be hit with "strong economic and other measures" as punishment should Moscow...

Biden’s Pick For Top Bank Regulator Withdraws After Republicans Accuse Her Of Being A Communist (RFE RL)

President Joe Biden’s pick to serve as the country’s top banking regulator withdrew her nomination after Republican attacks about her Soviet upbringing and concerns...

U.S. Hits Iranian Officials, Entities With Sanctions Over ‘Serious’ Rights Abuses (RFE RL)

The United States has slapped sanctions on about a dozen Iranian officials and entities accused of committing "serious" human rights abuses. The sanctions announced on...

He Said, He Said: Russian, U.S. Statements On Biden-Putin Call Differ Starkly (Steve Gutterman, RFE RL)

Amid a big Russian military buildup near Ukraine and on the Russian-controlled Crimean Peninsula, the Kremlin has kept a lot of people guessing about...

Biden must build stronger trade ties with ASEAN (Kevin Rutigliano, East Asia Forum)

On 26 October 2021, US President Joe Biden attended a virtual US–ASEAN summit meeting — the first time in four years that the United States engaged...

US Trade Deficit Saw Big Export-Fueled Drop in October: Gov’t (Agence France-Presse, IndustryWeek)

Strong American export business caused a large drop in the U.S. trade deficit last month, even as imports also rose, according to government data...

2021 Nutrition for Growth Summit (US Department of State)

The Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit, hosted today by the Government of Japan, represents a critical milestone to address malnutrition in all its forms...

Biden’s misguided framing of US-China rivalry as democracy versus autocracy (Baogang He, East Asia Forum)

On 9 December 2021, US President Joe Biden will hold the ‘Summit for Democracy’, where he will likely repeat his emphasis on a battle between democracies...

How Buffalo’s East Side Avenues is training citizen developers to revitalize commercial corridors (Laura Quebral, Brookings)

In 2018, the state of New York committed an unprecedented investment—$65 million—to a new place-based initiative to revitalize Buffalo’s East Side. There is perhaps...

SecDef Warns Against Over-Hyping Recent Chinese Weapons Tests (Marcus Weisgerber and Tara Copp, Nextgov)

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin cautioned national security leaders and industry executives against over-hyping recent Chinese weapons tests—but also called for deeper ties between...

VA Aims To Reduce Administrative Tasks With AI, Machine Learning (Alexandra Kelley, Nextgov)

Officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs are looking to increase efficiency and optimize their clinicians’ professional capabilities, featuring advanced artificial intelligence and machine...

US Missile Defense Agency declares initial delivery of Long-Range Discrimination Radar in Alaska (Jen Judson, Defense News)

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency has finished installing radar arrays and wrapped up military construction for the Long-Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR). The agency held a Dec. 6...

Here’s what America must do to counter Russian aggression against Ukraine (Sen. Joni Ernst, Defense News)

America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan put vulnerable democracies around the globe at severe risk. Allies and partners who stood beside us in our fight now...

NRO director: Innovation is the key to America’s advantage in space (Chris Scolese, Defense News)

The National Reconnaissance Office has spent six decades developing the best space-based intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance systems in the world. These systems are a...

US military tech leads: Achieving all-domain decision advantage through JADC2 (Rob Parker and John Stuckey, Defense News)

Militaries have attempted to improve command-and-control capabilities across the fighting force since the dawn of recorded history. Over time, the speed of communications and the...