Tag: USA

Tech jobs: These are the highest-paying roles, and here’s where to find them (Owen Hughes, ZD Net)

IT managers, system architects, cloud engineers and cybersecurity engineers took home the biggest salaries last year, according to the latest Tech Salary Report from...

Joint Chiefs’ Information Officer: U.S. Is Behind on Information Warfare. AI Can Help (Patrick Tucker, Nextgov)

The United States needs a better strategy and more advanced tools for information operations, Lt. Gen. Dennis Crall, the Joint Staff’s chief information officer, said...

Broadband Dominates Tech Funding In Biden Infrastructure Bill (Alexandra Kelley, Nextgov)

Congress passed the long-awaited infrastructure bill Friday evening with bipartisan support after lengthy negotiations surrounding the bill’s provisions. In addition to being a major...

Former CYBERCOM Leader Urges Collective Defense Against Cyber Threats (Patience Wait, Nextgov)

The former leader of U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency shared his vision of a collaborative network of companies sharing cyber threat...

White House Highlights Cybersecurity Benefit in Infrastructure Package (Mariam Baksh, Nextgov)

President Joe Biden is set to sign into law a $1.2 trillion bill aimed at improving the resilience of the nation’s infrastructure in the...

Adding India to the Five Eyes Would Cause a New Cold War, Pakistani Official Says (Patrick Tucker, Defense One)

Adding India to the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing club would hurt U.S.-Pakistan relations as Islamabad tries to coordinate a regional response to a growing Afghanistan...

DARPA has caught a Gremlin drone in midair. Can it grab four in a half-hour? (Stephen Losey, Defense News)

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Dynetics proved they can catch an X-61A Gremlin drone in flight and bring it aboard a C-130A mothership. But...

Pentagon tech chief seeks to bolster R&D work with allies (Joe Gould, Defense News)

The Pentagon doesn’t want to innovate alone. Heidi Shyu, the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, said Monday that she has discussed the Pentagon’s...

A Stability Check in US-Russian Relations (Pavel K. Baev, The Jamestown Foundation)

Russia has not entirely avoided contravening international laws and norms since the Geneva summit in mid-June, but its behavior has been an improvement compared...

Race and Jobs at Risk of Being Automated in the Age of COVID-19 (Kristen Broady, Brookings)

On November 3, 2021, Brookings Metro Fellow Kristen Broady testified to the U.S. House Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth, during...

How Fintech Companies Can Mitigate the Racial Wealth Gap (Kristen Broady, Brookings)

On November 2, 2021, Brookings Metro Fellow Kristen Broady testified to the U.S. House Financial Services Committee’s Task Force on Financial Technology, during a...

Despite a strong October jobs report, Black unemployment remains too high to justify the Fed’s recent decision to decrease bond purchases (Kristen Broady and...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ October jobs report, released November 5, provides generally positive news with total nonfarm payroll employment increasing by 531,000 compared to an...

Rising to the challenge: Navigating competition, avoiding crisis, and advancing US interests in relations with China (John R. Allen, Ryan Hass, and Bruce Jones,...

The Brookings – China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR) Dialogue began in 2019 against the backdrop of the 40th anniversary of the establishment...

Visit of Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Feltman to Ethiopia and Kenya (US Department of State)

Special Envoy Jeffrey Feltman is currently in Ethiopia to underscore the United States’ grave concern with the escalation of the conflict and the risk...

Recognizing the One-Year Anniversary of the Ceasefire Declaration Between Armenia and Azerbaijan (US Department of State)

This week, the United States and the international community recognize the one-year anniversary of the ceasefire declaration that ended 44 days of intense fighting...

Deputy Secretary Sherman’s Meeting on Venezuelan Refugee Assistance in Uruguay (US Department of State)

The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Deputy Secretary of State Wendy R. Sherman met today with representatives of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and Uruguayan civil...