Tag: USA

New US Navy task group taps destroyers to focus on countering Russian undersea threat (Diana Stancy Correll and Megan Eckstein, Defense News)

The Navy is organizing East Coast destroyers to better protect the homeland from Russian threats — specifically those undersea — as part of a...

Space Force awards $88 million in contracts for launch system prototyping (Nathan Strout, Defense News)

The Space Force issued four awards worth a combined $88 million as an investment in next-generation rocket capabilities, Space Systems Command announced Sept. 24. Space...

US Navy reorganizes submarine enterprise to address challenges in construction, maintenance (Megan Eckstein, Defense News)

The U.S. Navy has reorganized its entire submarine acquisition and sustainment enterprise to address attack submarine readiness as well as potential future challenges building...

Boeing delivers first Block III Super Hornets to the US Navy (Megan Eckstein, Defense News)

The U.S. Navy this month accepted the first two Block III F/A-18 Super Hornet jets from Boeing, the company announced Sept. 27, kicking off...

How tech platforms fuel U.S. political polarization and what government can do about it (Paul Barrett, Justin Hendrix, Grant Sims, Brookings)

As both members of Congress and federal law enforcement agencies investigate the origins and execution of the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol,...

Playing a weak hand well Jordan’s Hashemite kings and the United States (Bruce Riedel, Brookings)

The American interaction with the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has revolved around two men, King Hussein, and his son King Abdallah. Both have ruled...

Supporting families supports the economy: Social nets are economic foundations (Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Peg Burchinal, Brookings)

“Why I won’t support spending another 3.5 trillion… There’s not a rush to do that right now. We don’t have an urgency. Don’t you...

Wang Yi urges action from US to return its China policy to rationality (Global Times)

The US recently has said it doesn't want confrontation or engage in a new cold war, but the key lies in whether concrete action...

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Could Reshape DOE’s RD&D Portfolio Over the Next 5 Years—in a Good Way (Linh Nguyen, David M. Hart, ITIF)

The bipartisan infrastructure package is consistent with recommendations that ITIF and Columbia University’s Center for Global Energy Policy co-published a year ago—providing a significant...

Secretary Antony J. Blinken And Singaporean Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan At the Signing of the Singapore-United States Third-Country Training Program (TCTP) Memorandum of Understanding...

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Well, good afternoon, everyone.  It is especially a pleasure to have my good friend the foreign minister here at the State Department. ...

Secretary Blinken’s Meeting with Thai Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Don (US Department of State)

The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met with Thai Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai...

Secretary Blinken’s Meeting with Singapore Foreign Minister Balakrishnan (US Department of State)

The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met today with Singaporean Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan.  Secretary Blinken and...

Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Pershing’s Travel to South Africa, Namibia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, and Senegal...

Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Jonathan Pershing will travel to Johannesburg and Pretoria, South Africa; Windhoek, Namibia; Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Brazzaville,...

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Hogan Meets OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs (US Department of State)

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of European and Eurasian Affairs Dereck Hogan and National Security Council Senior Director for Europe Amanda Sloat, met on September...

Deputy Secretary Sherman’s Trip to Switzerland, Uzbekistan, India, and Pakistan (US Department of State)

Deputy Secretary of State Wendy R. Sherman will travel to Geneva, Switzerland on September 29 to lead a U.S. interagency delegation to a September...

Saudi-US military ties continue despite rights reset (Thomas O Falk, Al Jazeera)

During the US presidential election campaign, Joe Biden distanced himself from the course of then-President Donald Trump, who was close with the Saudi royal...