Tag: USA

Quantum Community Weighs In on New U.S.-U.K. Collaboration Agreement (Brandi Vincent, Nextgov)

The United States and United Kingdom formally elevated their cooperative engagement to drive quantum information science and technology breakthroughs, via a recently issued joint statement that...

What Worked, What Didn’t at Army’s Second Connect-Everything Experiment (Patrick Tucker, Defense One)

If last year’s edition of the U.S. Army’s massive connect-everything experiment was a proof of concept, this year’s was a far bigger effort to...

Senators Urge Better Cyber Protection For K-12 Schools (Alexandra Kelley, Nextgov)

With the COVID-19 pandemic thoroughly relegating many schools to online learning, federal agencies are emphasizing the need to take extra precautions to prevent cyberattacks...

Working to Secure the Technology Supply Chain (Patrick Bohart, Nextgov)

Application-based attacks like the Colonial Pipeline ransomware hack capture headlines but security pros know that cyber criminals are not stopping with application-based attacks and...

Expand Israel-Arab-US military drills to counter Iran and its proxies (Bradley Bowman and Ryan Brobst, Defense News)

Naval forces from Israel, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and the United States are conducting a five-day multilateral maritime security operations exercise in the Red Sea....

Poland to acquire 300 used Cougar MRAPs from the US (Jaroslaw Adamowski, Defense News)

Poland’s Defence Minister Mariusz Błaszczak has announced the country will acquire 300 second-hand Cougar mine-resistant, ambush-protected (MRAP) vehicles from the United States as part...

The Army is looking for industry to help shape its future SATCOM needs (Mark Pomerleau, Defense News)

The Army is working with industry to help shape how it will use and buy satellite communications for forces to talk beyond line of...

US, Israel and Gulf Arab allies launch joint Red Sea drill (Aya Batrawy, The Associated Press, Defense News)

Naval forces from the United States, Israel and two Gulf Arab states are taking part in a joint security drill in the Red Sea, a vital...

Qatar to act as US diplomatic representative in Afghanistan (Al Jazeera)

The United States and Qatar have agreed that Doha will represent the diplomatic interests of the US in Afghanistan, the first official representation for...

US sanctions Eritrean army, ruling party over Ethiopia conflict (Al Jazeera)

The United States has sanctioned the Eritrean military and the country’s ruling party for “contributing to the crisis and conflict” in Ethiopia, which has...

Update: Xi, Biden to hold virtual meeting, ‘positive sign’ for improving fraught ties (Liu Xin and Zhang Hui, Global Times)

Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet with US President Joe Biden via video link on the morning of November 16 (Beijing Time), Chinese Foreign...

Anger, betrayal, and humiliation: how veterans feel about the withdrawal from Afghanistan (William A. Galston, Brookings)

In the wake of the chaotic U. S. withdrawal from Afghanistan last August, many observers believed that the memory would quickly fade as Americans...

Imposing Sanctions in Connection with the Conflict in Ethiopia (US Department of State)

The United States is designating six targets associated with the Eritrean government and ruling party pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 14046, which the President...

The Narco-Terrorist Taliban (Brahma Chellaney, Project-Syndicate)

The strategic folly of US President Joe Biden’s Afghan policy has been laid bare in recent weeks. First, the country came back under the control of...

US: Blinken to make first official visit to sub-Saharan Africa (Al Jazeera)

United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken will make his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa in an official capacity next week, visiting Kenya, Nigeria...

The Choking of the Global Minotaur (James K. Glabraith, Project-Syndicate)

A supply chain is like a Rorschach Test: each economic analyst sees in it a pattern reflecting his or her own preconceptions. This may...