Tag: USA

Army Delays IVAS Display Headset by a Year (Caitlin M. Kenney, Defense One)

The Army is delaying testing and fielding of its augmented-reality headset while tweaks are made to improve the system, service officials announced Monday. One of...

The Army is getting great power competition all wrong (Daniel L. Davis, Defense News)

Last week, Gen. Charles Flynn, commander of the U.S. Army Pacific, said he wants to “signal” strength to China by putting “boots on the...

Space Force teams with venture capital company on SpaceWERX (Nathan Strout, Defense News)

The U.S. Space Force has signed a research agreement with venture capital firm Embedded Ventures to explore whether it can use venture capital practices...

L3Harris: First flight of future Compass Call paves way for 2022 delivery (Stephen Losey, Defense News)

The airplane that will one day be the Air Force’s next electronic warfare aircraft, the EC-37B Compass Call, has made its first flight and...

Is the spike in federal revenue permanent? (Kyle Pomerleau, AEI)

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently published its monthly budget review for September, now estimating a spike in federal tax receipts for the 2021 fiscal year....

Unemployment insurance at a crossroads: Tracing program design during and beyond COVID-19 (Amy Simon, AEI)

The COVID-19-related emergency policy interventions in the unemployment insurance (UI) system1 unfolded quickly and will have long-lasting ramifications. While the Great Recession produced modest policy...

A reset for assessment: Toward a less burdensome accountability system (Jack Buckley, AEI)

Standardized educational assessments are often criticized as overly burdensome, competing for vital instructional time and narrowing the curriculum to what is tested. They are...

The divided state of our unions (W. Bradford Wilcox, Lyman Stone, Wendy Wang, Jason Carroll, AEI)

Where is the American family headed as COVID-19 finally seems to be abating? Focusing on family formation in the United States, this report considers...

Invoking Big Tech as an accusation can endanger American security (Klon Kitchen, AEI)

Could Congress’s antitrust campaign against Big Tech derail America’s strategic competition with China? A bipartisan collection of senior national security leaders — including a...

House reconciliation bill struggles with Biden’s flawed $400,000 tax pledge (Alan D. Viard, AEI)

During his successful presidential campaign last year, Joe Biden made a sweeping and misguided pledge about his tax plan: “Nobody making under 400,000 bucks would have...

What the US Recovery Is Missing (Laura Tyson, Lenny Mendonca, Project-Syndicate)

Although the US economy has recovered faster than many others around the world, persistent labor-market problems lurk beneath the surface. The deep class-, race-,...

Learning to Manage the China Threat (Shlomo Ben-Ami, Project-Syndicate)

While regime change in China is not impossible, it is not likely, and would almost certainly not lead to Western-style democracy if it occurred....

US begins modernizing tactical nuclear weapons and storage sites in Europe — Shoigu (TASS)

As the Russian defense minister pointed out, "a cause for special concern is the engagement of pilots from the bloc’s non-nuclear member states in...

Russia regrets US is absent from Moscow talks on Afghanistan — Lavrov (TASS)

Lavrov recalled that the United States dodged participation in a meeting of the enlarged troika (Russia, the United States, China and Pakistan) for a...

Iran commander rejoices at US ‘defeats’ (Al Monitor)

The commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said the United States has “fled” Afghanistan and is currently counting its “last months” in...

US: Taliban will have no access to Afghan central bank reserves (Al Jazeera)

Deputy United States Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo said he sees no situation where the Taliban, who regained power in Afghanistan in August, would be...