Tag: USA

US probing Alibaba cloud unit for security risks: Sources (Al Jazeera)

The Biden administration is reviewing e-commerce giant Alibaba’s cloud business to determine whether it poses a risk to the United States’ national security, according...

New Report Offers Glimpse Of How AI Will Remake Spywork (Patrick Tucker, Defense One)

Unless the intelligence community changes the way it defines intelligence and adopts cloud computing, it will wind up behind adversaries, private interests, and even...

Declassified Report Details Afghan Air Force Reliance on Contractors (Marcus Weisgerber, Defense One)

A newly declassified report that warned the Afghan Air Force would collapse without U.S. support underscores the military’s reliance on contractors to operate and maintain sophisticated...

Head of US Air Force’s space research will help design the Space Force’s satellite constellations (Courtney Albon, Defense News)

The head of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s space initiatives is taking a new job with the Space Force where he’ll help design the...

Amphib ship requirements study could spell bad news for Marines, industry (Megan Eckstein, Defense News)

A study on amphibious warship requirements that will help inform upcoming budgets is looking less likely to yield the results the U.S. Marine Corps...

US Cyber Command will use new academic engagement network to tackle cyber challenges (Mark Pomerleau, Defense News)

A new academic engagement network will allow U.S. Cyber Command to expand its access to more research on hard cyber problems that will benefit...

The problems at Red Hill in Hawaii are just the start of DoD’s infrastructure liabilities (Timothy A. Walton, Defense News)

Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro visited Hawaii last month for a solemn commemoration of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor and a bit...

Air Force Research Lab pushes new Space Force tack on hybrid architecture (Courtney Albon, Defense News)

The Air Force Research Laboratory’s new space-focused technology executive expects the science and technology community to play a key role in helping the Space...

Before US pullout, watchdog warned of Afghan air force collapse (Kathy Gannon, The Associated Press, Defense News)

Months before President Joe Biden announced the U.S.’s complete withdrawal from Afghanistan last year, Washington’s watchdog warned that the Afghan air force would collapse without critical...

C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With John C. Williams (Council on Foreign Relations)

John C. Williams of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York discusses monetary policy, the continued impact of COVID-19, and the economic outlook for...

Understanding the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Council on Foreign Relations)

Heidi Crebo-Rediker, adjunct senior fellow at CFR, will discuss the provisions in the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and implications for infrastructure...

Is the U.S. military’s futurism obsession hurting national security? (Amy J. Nelson and Alexander H. Montgomery, Brookings)

Amid a pandemic that was all but predicted by biosecurity experts, there has been an obsession with the kind of thinking that attempts to forecast...

Blinken to travel to Ukraine amid fears of Russian invasion (Al Jazeera)

United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to travel to Kyiv following a week of diplomacy between Washington, Moscow, and NATO countries...

Blinken To Visit Ukraine, Germany This Week Amid Russian Invasion Fears (RFE RL)

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to visit Kyiv on January 19 for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a show...

The U.S.-China Perception Gap: A Recipe for Disaster? (Harry He, Eduardo Jaramillo, The Jamestown Foundation)

In December, a war of words raged across the Pacific over the very meaning of the word “democracy” (China Brief, December 14, 2021). The...

Another midterm worry for Biden White House: probes and impeachment attempts (Jeff Mason and Jarrett Renshaw, Reuters)

The U.S. midterm elections are some 10 months away, but President Joe Biden's administration and allies already foresee a possible scenario in which Republicans...