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• Ep. 59: The future of European security

  14-11-2019 00:05 via Defense One - All Content
  
  Here's a look at some of the ways Europe is changing amid various pressures from Russia, China and the NATO alliance.
  
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• US Vets Targeted by Foreign Actors Aiming to Sway Elections, Experts Tell Congress

  13-11-2019 22:49 via Defense One - All Content
  
  Actors from Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Macedonia, and elsewhere gain access to online forums by impersonating vets they find online
  
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• Trump's Bullying of Ukraine Set Off Alarms Throughout the US Government

  13-11-2019 21:24 via Defense One - All Content
  
  The first day of impeachment hearings revealed repeated threats to resign and repeated referrals to lawyers of possible violations of U.S. law by U.S. officials.
  
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• Can DoD Get Speed & Security With The Cloud?

  13-11-2019 20:40 via Search Results for “-[jdsupra” – Breaking Defense
  
  The Pentagon is struggling to speed up acquisition at the same time it’s imposing new cybersecurity controls. But one senior official has an idea for how to do both.
  
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• Erdoğan Defies Trump. So Why Do They Get Along?

  13-11-2019 20:28 via Defense One - All Content
  
  The two have undeniable personal chemistry, but their countries are drifting apart.
  
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• Israelis Create Foreign Investment Overseer; China Targeted

  13-11-2019 18:09 via Search Results for “-[jdsupra” – Breaking Defense
  
  The People’s Republic of China has taken an active interest in collaboration with Israel on innovation and technology. In 2018, bilateral trade between the countries hit a record of $15.3 billion, up from just $51.5 million in 1992 and $13.1 billion in 2017.
  
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• Air Force, Allies Team To Find Space Startups

  13-11-2019 17:03 via Search Results for “-[jdsupra” – Breaking Defense
  
  The new effort focuses on space situational awareness, space data analytics, space communication, artificial intelligence (AI) and satellite servicing.
  
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• EXCLUSIVE Pentagon’s AI Problem Is ‘Dirty’ Data: Lt. Gen. Shanahan

  13-11-2019 15:52 via Search Results for “-[jdsupra” – Breaking Defense
  
  The military has all the data it needs to train machine learning algorithms for war – somewhere. Now the Joint AI Center has to find it all and clean it up. The goal: AI Ready data.
  
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• Trump's Real Offense Was Outsourcing American Diplomacy

  13-11-2019 15:34 via Defense One - All Content
  
  Allowing Rudy Giuliani to handle U.S. diplomacy was a constitutional violation—one whose gravity Republicans might see if they weren’t so busy making excuses for the president.
  
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• The Mothers Who Fled the Turkish Incursion

  13-11-2019 05:25 via Defense One - All Content
  
  Attacks by Turkish-backed forces shattered a hard-won pseudo-normalcy for Syrian women who had lived under ISIS.
  
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• EXCLUSIVE Navy, Air Force Chiefs Agree To Work On All Domain C2

  12-11-2019 23:16 via Search Results for “-[jdsupra” – Breaking Defense
  
  Today, “we have Navy-only systems,” said Vice Adm. Lewis, “which is really frustrating” — in fact, it’s “asinine.”
  
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• Don’t Rush Quantum-Proof Encryption, Warns NSA Research Director

  12-11-2019 21:13 via Defense One - All Content
  
  Quantum computers could crack the codes that secure the world’s digital information but racing to a solution could create more threats.
  
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• 'That’s When I Became A Sniper': Ukraine’s Women Vets Describe Their War

  12-11-2019 21:11 via Defense One - All Content
  
  As the war in Ukraine smolders on, we sat down with women veterans who recount their experiences fighting to defend their country, and each other.
  
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• 'That’s When I Became A Sniper': Ukraine’s Woman Vets Describe Their War

  12-11-2019 21:11 via Defense One - All Content
  
  As the war in Ukraine smolders on, we sat down with women veterans who recount their experiences fighting to defend their country, and each other.
  
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• DoD Asks: Who Really Wrote Your Code?

  12-11-2019 20:38 via Search Results for “-[jdsupra” – Breaking Defense
  
  US programmers routinely borrow code from all over — including Russia and China. The Pentagon is developing and buying tools to track that.
  
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• What’s Wrong with Boeing?

  12-11-2019 20:25 via Defense One - All Content
  
  From sloppy work to blown deadlines to deadly failures, the company has lost its way. It needs tough love — in the form of Congressional investigations.
  
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• China Says It’s Developing 6G. What Does That Mean?

  12-11-2019 18:36 via Defense One - All Content
  
  Just as the US and the West grapple with China's lead in next-gen 5G networking gear, Beijing announced two working groups focused on advancing 6G.
  
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• EXCLUSIVE Marines Tested Commandant’s New Vision In Largest Marine Exercise Since Cold War

  12-11-2019 17:02 via Search Results for “-[jdsupra” – Breaking Defense
  
  In an exclusive statement, the ambitious USMC Commandant says the exercises are shock testing “what we will expect to see in a realistic fight where large forces are spread out over great distances.”
  
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• What Aircraft May Die To Fund Goldfein’s Future?

  12-11-2019 13:01 via Search Results for “-[jdsupra” – Breaking Defense
  
  Although retiring the B-2 fleet could save the Air Force nearly $3 billion, CSIS cautions that doing so “would leave the nation without a long-range penetrating strike aircraft and would weaken the airborne component of the nuclear triad.” 
  
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• SecDef: Expect ‘Trimming, Reducing, Some Eliminations’ in 2021 Budget

  12-11-2019 05:44 via Defense One - All Content
  
  Esper touts "good progress" in high-level review intended to cut fat and find funds for projects to counter China and Russia.
  
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• The World Needs Twice as Many Cybersecurity Pros, Report Says

  11-11-2019 21:12 via Defense One - All Content
  
  In the U.S., an industry nonprofit found that two of every five cybersecurity jobs is going unfilled.
  
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• Macron's 'NATO Brain Death' Quote Shows Why the US Has Always Outplayed France

  11-11-2019 16:34 via Defense One - All Content
  
  Like Charles de Gaulle, the French president would unify Europe under France’s conception, with Germany footing the bill.
  
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• ‘Bob, How Do We Bottle This?’ Making Infantry As Good As Special Ops

  11-11-2019 14:00 via Search Results for “-[jdsupra” – Breaking Defense
  
  Our elite close combat forces are outnumbered. As a national priority we must increase the numbers of those capable of doing these hazardous jobs by transferring the skills of JSOC warriors to Army and Marine conventional infantrymen.
  
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• How Best to Thank a Veteran? Avoid More Unjust Wars

  11-11-2019 04:49 via Defense One - All Content
  
  A 2017 poll found that about half of Americans would support launching an unprovoked war on a country that poses no near-term threat.
  
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• Betraying The Kurds Makes Things Harder for US Operators Everywhere

  10-11-2019 14:00 via Defense One - All Content
  
  It will henceforth be much more difficult for U.S. combat forces and advisors to get help from local partners around the world.
  
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• The Cold War Ended 30 Years Ago. Why Are Things With Russia So Bad?

  09-11-2019 14:00 via Defense One - All Content
  
  Critics said NATO expansion would start a new Cold War. They were right.
  
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• The Mad Scramble for Syria

  08-11-2019 21:38 via Defense One - All Content
  
  After weeks of chaos in the northeast, great powers redrew a small chunk of the map. And a bigger story is just beginning.
  
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• Air Force Testing Novel ISR Sensors For LEO Sats

  08-11-2019 21:00 via Search Results for “-[jdsupra” – Breaking Defense
  
  Aerospace was able to build and test both sats within 16 months, and launch them after only 18 months — a fraction of the average seven to eight years it traditionally has taken the service.
  
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• Air Force ABMS: One Architecture To Rule Them All?

  08-11-2019 20:50 via Search Results for “-[jdsupra” – Breaking Defense
  
  The Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System is growing from an alternative to JSTARS to a multi-domain mega-network to connect all four services in future wars. Is this a revolution or overreach?
  
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• Russia: We’re Testing Armed Strike Drones in Wargames

  08-11-2019 18:14 via Defense One - All Content
  
  But some observers have questions about the claim.
  
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• Russia Says It Used Autonomous Armed Strike Drones in a Wargame

  08-11-2019 18:14 via Defense One - All Content
  
  But some observers have questions about the claim.
  
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• At Long Last, the F-35 and F-22 Might Talk to Each Other

  08-11-2019 17:58 via Defense One - All Content
  
  And once service officials can digitally link two of the military’s stealthiest platforms, they’re going to try to link everything else.
  
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• F-35 To F-22: Can We Talk? Finally, The Answer Is Yes

  07-11-2019 23:10 via Search Results for “-[jdsupra” – Breaking Defense
  
  Next month, the Air Force will start rapid-fire field tests of new network tech, including a long-delayed secure datalink between its two stealth fighters.
  
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• Norway Flies With B-52s Above Arctic; IOC For Their F-35s

  07-11-2019 20:51 via Search Results for “-[jdsupra” – Breaking Defense
  
  Norway took a major step toward replacing its F-16swhen Norwegian air chief Brig. Gen. Tonje Skinnarland declared Norway’s F-35As operational after completing a deployment at Orland Main Air Station.
  
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• McConnell Asked White House For Sanctions Position, Dem Senator Says

  07-11-2019 19:52 via Defense One - All Content
  The Senate majority leader is weighing the myriad sanctions proposals on the Hill, Sen. Van Hollen said at the Defense One Outlook 2020 conference.
  
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• Security Trumps Speed For 5G Networks: CNAS

  07-11-2019 18:05 via Search Results for “-[jdsupra” – Breaking Defense
  
  “Security will be more important than speed in establishing a durable foundation for 5G’s future,” writes leading scholar Elsa Kania – and Washington must lead the way.
  
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• Innovation IS The New Battlefield: Roper

  07-11-2019 15:35 via Search Results for “-[jdsupra” – Breaking Defense
  
  “It’s not enough to develop and procure systems anymore. We’ve got to get in the business of of buying ideas and generating ideas,” says Air Force acquisition czar Will Roper.
  
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• Livestream: Defense One Outlook 2020 Main Stage

  07-11-2019 13:30 via Defense One - All Content
  At Defense One’s annual look into the future, we'll discuss global threats, industry trends, advanced technology, national-security policy and more.
  
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• National Security Is Made of People

  07-11-2019 13:10 via Defense One - All Content
  We need a way to measure the readiness of our civilian national-security workforce. Then we need to fix it.
  
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• Do Americans Still Want The US to Be the World’s Security Leader?

  07-11-2019 13:05 via Defense One - All Content
  The post-Trump awakening of political activism is inspiring, but seems to end at the border. We’re teaming up with CNAS to find out why.
  
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• US Must Improve Cyber Protection For Sats: Aerospace Corp.

  07-11-2019 13:01 via Search Results for “-[jdsupra” – Breaking Defense
  
  “Neither space policy nor cybersecurity policy is prepared for the challenges created by the meshing of space and cyberspace, especially for the spacecraft,” finds a new Aerospace Corp. report.
  
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• Defense One, CNAS Launch American Readiness Project

  07-11-2019 13:00 via Defense One - All Content
  Over the next year, the Project will chronicle Americans' desire, willingness, and capability to keep their country a global security leader.
  
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• Google Wants More Work from the Defense Department

  06-11-2019 22:07 via Defense One - All Content
  A senior vice president ruled out working directly on weapons programs, but said other areas are fair game.
  
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• The Air Force’s ‘Doomsday Plane’ Is in the Shop

  06-11-2019 22:01 via Defense One - All Content
  The E-4B, a plane that would quarterback a nuclear war, has lost its secondary mission as the SecDef’s main long-haul ride.
  
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• It Was a Corrupt Quid Pro Quo

  06-11-2019 21:45 via Defense One - All Content
  Not only did the president hold up aid to Ukraine; he made its release contingent on a statement advancing his own political interests.
  
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• Air Force, Navy Decry Year-Long CR: $18.7B Would Be Lost

  06-11-2019 21:35 via Search Results for “-[jdsupra” – Breaking Defense
  
  “I suppose it is possible it could happen,” CSIS’s Todd Harrison says of a one-year CR for DoD, “but it never has happened and it is unlikely it ever will.”
  
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• What It’s Like to Deal With US Foreign Policy in the Trump Era

  06-11-2019 17:38 via Defense One - All Content
  The administration’s shadow foreign policy sees the light of day.
  
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• ArtificiaI Intel: Time Is Not On America’s Side

  06-11-2019 15:19 via Search Results for “-[jdsupra” – Breaking Defense
  
  The commission identified five lines of effort that the U.S. government should focus on: R&D investments; national security applications of AI, training and recruiting AI talent; protecting and building upon U.S. technical advantages; and promoting global AI cooperation.
  
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• China Seeks AI Without Limits, Ethics: SecDef Esper

  05-11-2019 23:41 via Search Results for “-[jdsupra” – Breaking Defense
  
  Beijing is using artificial intelligence, not only to repress domestic dissidents and minorities, the Defense Secretary said, but to develop and export autonomous weapons.
  
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