Tag: USA

NIST Asks for Input on Emerging Tech Trends and Risks for Congressional Study (Brandi Vincent, Nextgov)

Looking to push the development of future-facing technologies and fulfill a congressional mandate, the National Institute of Standards and Technology asked interested individuals to weigh in...
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GAO: Better Data Collection Can Improve Homelessness Estimates (Frank Konkel, Nextgov)

The Housing and Urban Development Department can improve its ability to estimate nationwide homeless by better engaging and coordinating with communities over how best...
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White House Holiday Warning Identifies Options for Reporting Ransomware (Mariam Baksh, Nextgov)

Entities experiencing any suspicious cyber activity should report incidents to either the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency or the FBI, CISA Director Jen Easterly...
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Army to work with satellite radar imagery provider ICEYE (Nathan Strout, Defense News)

The U.S. Army will work with radar satellite imagery provider ICEYE to understand how that technology can be integrated into current and future Army...
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Congress should support the Biden administration’s effort to sell defensive missiles to Saudi Arabia (Bradley Bowman, Hussain Abdul-Hussain and Ryan Brobst, Defense News)

A fight is brewing within the Democratic party over whether to permit the sale of defensive air-to-air missiles to Saudi Arabia. The Biden administration’s...
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Raytheon CTO says merged company is finding new ways to work together (Jen Judson, Defense News)

As the Pentagon looks to develop new capabilities more reliant on artificial intelligence and races to bring new weapons like hypersonic missiles online, Raytheon...
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The Further Bungling of US Trade (Anne O. Krueger, Project-Syndicate)

Among former US President Donald Trump’s many policy mistakes, some of the worst were in the area of trade. His administration’s sweeping tariffs on...
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Strengthening intelligence collaboration in Australia: lessons from the UK and the US (Michael Shoebridge, John Coyne and Rajiv Shah, The Strategist)

At the time of the review of Australia’s intelligence agencies in 2017, extremism, state and non-state actors, climate change and technological change were all...
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Migrants in US-bound caravan say they’ll accept deal for Mexican visas (Rafael Bernal, The Hill)

Thousands of migrants who had organized a U.S.-bound caravan have taken a deal to disband their group in exchange for visas to stay in...
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Rubio: Dropping FARC from terrorist list threatens Colombians, US security (Mychael Schnell, The Hill)

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Wednesday said that removing the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, from the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) would...
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Poll: Democracy is under attack, and more violence may be the future (Peter Fenn, The Hill)

Democracy is on life support, and voters know it. It isn’t just about the inflated, angry rhetoric or the videos depicting grotesque violence directed from...
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New White House office to coordinate climate change policies (Zack Budryck, The Hill)

The White House is set to create a new division of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) that will coordinate federal climate...
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How Iran sees the Biden doctrine for the JCPOA and Persian Gulf (Javad Heiran-Nia, Atlantic Council)

Iranian experts in Tehran see the Joe Biden administration’s approach toward Iran and the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in the context of...
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Embracing Afghan refugees is a strategic opportunity for the US (Sarah Dawn Petrin, Atlantic Council)

While helping evacuees from Afghanistan at a US government facility in Virginia in September, I was struck by the excitement of the families gathered...
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US jobless claims plunge to the lowest level since 1969 (Molly Smith, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera)

Applications for U.S. state unemployment benefits plunged last week to a level not seen since 1969, which if sustained would mark the next milestone...
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US to resume talks with Taliban in Qatar: State Department (Al Jazeera)

The United States is set to resume talks with the Taliban next week in Qatar, discussing the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan and steps to ensure that...
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