Tag: USA

The tug of war within the US Democratic Party (Al Jazeera)

President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion “Build Back Better” plan aims to tax the rich, fight global warming, and make healthcare and education cheaper in...
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With Biden’s lukewarm diplomacy, North Korea runs hot and cold (Khang Vu, The Interpreter)

North Korea is again following its old playbook, alternating between extending an olive branch or thorns, diplomacy or missile tests, all with the aim to extract...
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What the US ‘EAGLE Act’ means for Southeast Asia (Karl Chee Leong Lee, East Asia Forum)

Two months after its introduction to the US House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee, the ‘Ensuring American Global Leadership and Engagement (EAGLE) Act’ has passed the mark for...
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Ransomware law would require victims to disclose ransom payments within 48 hours (Danny Palmer, ZDNet)

Victims of ransomware attacks who choose to pay a ransom to cyber criminals for the decryption key could have to publicly disclose that a...
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Secretary Antony J. Blinken and OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann at a Joint Press Availability (US Department of State)

MODERATOR:  Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen – those in the room, those watching online – to this final press conference for the OECD’s Ministerial...
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Stabilizing US-Russian Relations: So Far So Good, but Dangers Lurk (Thomas Graham, Valdai Discussion Club)

The most ominous threat might arise from the continuing intense rivalry in cyberspace, which could spin out of control, despite the ongoing cybersecurity dialogue....
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How low can satellites go? VLEO entrepreneurs plan to find out (Debra Werner, Space News)

Skeyeon CEO Ron Reedy knew flying satellites at low altitudes could slash the cost of a constellation. He didn’t know if there were any...
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ODNI to share unclassified science and technology priorities (Debra Werner, Space News)

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is preparing unclassified documents to share its science and technology priorities with industry and academia,...
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Orbital Micro Systems and Thomas Keating forge weather data pact (Debra Werner, Space News)

Orbital Micro Systems announced an agreement Oct. 5 with UK technology firm Thomas Keating Ltd. to jointly fund design, development and testing of millimeter-wave...
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Spire Global data to feed maritime-traffic algorithms (Debra Werner, Space News)

LatConnect 60 will feed Spire Global Automatic Identification System (AIS) vessel-tracking data into algorithms the Australian Earth-observation startup is developing with Curtin University to...
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SES CEO thinks satellite industry consolidation likely (Jeff Foust, Space News)

The chief executive of satellite operator SES says consolidation of the satellite industry is more likely than ever to improve its overall return on...
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NGA looking to tap ‘all sources of innovation in the commercial space’ (Sandra Erwin, Space News)

The exploitation and analysis of satellite imagery and geospatial data to understand activities on Earth historically has given the United States a huge intelligence...
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NRO’s strategy to buy satellite imagery shaped by thriving commercial market (Sandra Erwin, Space News)

The U.S. satellite imagery industry will soon see the details of a highly anticipated procurement by the National Reconnaissance Office. The NRO is the U.S....
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Dancing with the Debt Ceiling (Barry Eichengree, Project-Syndicate)

Even in 2013, a year of partisan rancor, Democrats and Republicans agreed to suspend the US federal government’s debt ceiling just a week before...
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The COVID Inflation Scare (Daniel Gros, Project-Syndicate)

Central banks become concerned, and usually start tightening policy, when higher inflation fuels higher inflation expectations among consumers. Current trends suggest that US policymakers...
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Washington favors whole-of-government cybersecurity dialogue with Russia — official (TASS)

The United States and Russia should engage in a whole-of-government dialogue on cybersecurity, Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA),...
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