Tag: USA

Government Watchdog Welcomes Treasury’s Data Collection on Cyber Insurance Claims (Mariam Baksh, Nextgov)

The Government Accountability Office expressed support for the Treasury Department expanding the amount of information it collects from insurance providers regarding cybersecurity claims under...

Air Force Lab, New Mexico Institute Get Set for ‘High-Powered Window to Space’ (Brandi Vincent, Nextgov)

The Air Force Research Laboratory is engaging in a new collaboration that will provide U.S. and U.K. researchers and astronomers with one of the...

Homeland Security Looking For Ideas on AI, Biological Surveillance (Alexandra Kelley, Nextgov)

The Department of Homeland Security issued a request for comment for 11 proposed research topics the agency intends to pursue, with hopes that eligible...

Americans Want to Defend Taiwan. The Pentagon’s Budget Should, Too (Chet Lee, Defense One)

In recent polling, a greater share of the American public than ever supports using the U.S. military to defend Taiwan from China’s aggression. More...

Countering China’s nuclear threat: The cost to play is cheaper than the cost of sitting out (Rep. Rob Wittman, Defense News)

On Dec. 25, 1991, the Soviet flag was lowered from the Kremlin and replaced with the new flag of Russia. The world breathed a...

Defense Innovation Unit publishes ethical AI guidelines (Nathan Strout, Defense News)

The Defense Innovation Unit has published new directives for how it plans to use the Pentagon’s recently adopted “Responsible AI Guidelines” in its commercial...

‘No company is immune’: Supply chain woes weigh on defense firms (Stephen Losey, Defense News)

 More than a year and a half after the COVID-19 pandemic began to rock supply chains around the world, the defense industry is still...

For JADC2, the Pentagon should learn from the 5G community (Joseph Evans and Dan Patt, Defense News)

If the Pentagon wants a force that can fight jointly, it needs to abandon standards as it knows them. Since the last National Defense Strategy,...

Britain’s Drax eyes ’emissions negative’ U.S. biomass plant (Susanna Twidale, Reuters)

Britain's Drax (DRX.L) is considering building a biomass plant in the United States whose power generation it says will absorb more emissions than it...

Giant pipeline in U.S. Midwest tests future of carbon capture (Leah Douglas, Reuters)

Dan Tronchetti received a letter in August that alarmed him: Summit Carbon Solutions, a company he'd never heard of, wanted his permission to conduct...

US academic: US-centric worldview and hostile policies hindering US-China exchanges (Wu Guo, ThinkChina)

Before rushing to conclude that China is turning inward and isolating itself from the world with its harsh zero-Covid policy, says US academic Wu...

The big ‘ball’ of China-US relations still needs the small ball of ping pong to move it forward: ambassador (Global Times)

Qin Gang, Chinese ambassador to the US, delivered a speech at the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Ping Pong Diplomacy between China...

Listing Taiwan as participant to democracy summit among sovereign countries ‘dangerous provocation’: experts (Chen Qingqing, Li Xue and Hu Xinyu, Global Times)

Shortly after the Biden administration officially released the list of participants to its upcoming "summit for democracy," which includes the island of Taiwan, the...

Samsung announces $17bn chip plant for Texas (Al Jazeera)

South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics said it would build a $17bn chip plant outside Austin, Texas, to make advanced chips used in phones,...

Too soon to be waving the White flag on China (Peter Jennings, The Strategist)

In The Australian newspaper on Monday, Hugh White gave us a picture of democratic defeat in the face of overwhelming Chinese dominance should war break out over Taiwan. ‘Going...

The House’s Build Back Better Act is a milestone for place-based solutions (Mark Muro, Robert Maxim, Anthony F. Pipa, Yang You, and Colleen Dougherty,...

Last week, the House of Representatives passed the Build Back Better Act, which boasts an array of social and climate programs, ranging from generous support...