Tag: USA

Army to issue implementation plan for new unified network strategy (Mark Pomerlau, Defense News)

The Army expects to release an implementation strategy for its newly unveiled unified network plan, a document meant to set the foundation for how the...

Lockheed delivers laser for AC-130J gunship (Stephen Losey, Defense News)

The AC-130J Ghostrider gunship just got a step closer to getting its laser. Lockheed Martin said in an Oct. 6 release it has finished factory acceptance testing...

Army Software Factory to churn out soldier coders (Joe Gould, Defense News)

As the military struggles to recruit more skilled cyber employees, the Army has been experimenting with a novel solution: growing battlefield coders from the...

This Army program prevented a disease outbreak in a unit deploying to Afghanistan (Todd South, Defense News)

A set of human performance tools under development by the Army likely prevented a disease outbreak predeployment for one battalion and possibly saved the...

N Korea’s Kim says US, S Korea threaten peace with arms buildup (Al Jazeera)

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said his country’s weapons development is necessary in the face of ‘hostile’ policies from the United States...

Western Balkan groups call for US engagement to counter Serbia (Al Jazeera)

Leaders and advocacy organisations from Albanian-American, Bosnian-American and Montenegrin-American communities have called on the US to commit to a stronger presence in the Western...

US Army’s Precision Strike Missile gets green light for development, readies for big test (Jen Judson, Defense News)

The U.S. Army has approved the Precision Strike Missile program to move into the engineering and manufacturing development phase, just ahead of a major test at...

Worsening global digital divide as the US and China continue zero-sum competitions (Cheng Li, Brookings)

The COVID-19 crisis has interrupted daily life and business routines across the world, caused a massive loss of millions of lives, and exacerbated economic...

How does student-teacher matching affect suspensions for students of color? (Travis J. Bristol, Matthew Shirrell, and Tolani Britton, Brookings)

Persistent inequities by race and ethnicity in school discipline continue to circumscribe the educational experiences of students of color. Latino and Black students are...

Amid the pandemic, Black and Latino men have experienced the largest drop in life expectancy (Andre M. Perry, Ariel Gelrud Shiro, Anthony Barr, and...

The COVID-19 virus was the third leading cause of death in 2020 after heart disease and cancer, claiming approximately 375,000 American lives. As a result...

Erdogan seeks Biden meeting to discuss US warplane request (Selcan Hacaoglu, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera)

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants to use an upcoming global summit to lobby U.S. President Joe Biden to allow Ankara to buy dozens...

The US Trade Representative Outlined a New US-China Trade Policy. What Does This Mean for Africa? (W. Gyude Moore, Center for Global Development)

After a lengthy review of the Trump administration’s trade policy toward China, the Biden administration unveiled its approach on October 4th. It is the conclusion of...

Diplomacy is Good, But the D in DFC is for Development (Erin Collinson and Charles Kenny, Center for Global Development)

The US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) has been operating for less than two years, and already some lawmakers are keen to expand its...

Making antitrust work for, not against, gig workers and the self-employed (Georgios Petropoulos, Bruegel)

In late September, the Chair of United States Federal Trade Commission, Lina Khan, urged Congress to consider passing legislation to ensure gig workers who organise do...

Joint U.S.-EU Statement on the Global Methane Pledge (US Department of State)

At the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate (MEF) on September 17, 2021, President Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced ,...

CFIUS’s Expanding Jurisdiction in the Magnachip Acquisition (Brandon L. Van Grack, James Brower, Lawfare)

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) is among the most significant tools in the U.S. government’s arsenal to further its...