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• CISA sidelines anti-disinformation staffers

  12-02-2025 21:47 via defenseone.com
  A handful of employees inside the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency focused on countering disinformation, misinformation and related influence operations were recently put on administrative leave, a DHS spokesperson confirmed to Nextgov/FCW Wednesday.The statement confirmed earlier reports about staff being sidelined, a move that comes as DHS Secretary Kristi Noem has vowed to overhaul and reshape the scope of the cyber agency amid GOP concerns that its past efforts to reduce 
  
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• Senate confirms Tulsi Gabbard as Trump’s intelligence chief

  12-02-2025 18:31 via defenseone.com
  
  The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Tulsi Gabbard to be Director of National Intelligence in a 52-48 vote, making Donald Trump's controversial nominee — whose approval appeared unlikely just weeks ago — the nation’s spy chief.Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii and an Army combat veteran, passed out of the Senate Intelligence Committee in a 9-8 party-line vote last week. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the former Senate majority leader, appeared to be the GOP
  
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• The D Brief: Hegseth pans Kyiv’s ‘unrealistic objective’; Anti-ISIS airstrikes; USAID IG fired; ‘Stunning twist’ for Army headset; And a bit more.

  12-02-2025 17:12 via defenseone.com
  
  SecDef Hegseth says Ukraine will most likely not return to its pre-2014 borders during the Trump administration, which he said will not welcome Ukraine into the NATO alliance as part of a path to peace for the country that’s been partially occupied by the Russian military for 11 years. Big picture: Russian invaders have seized about one-fifth of Ukraine, and their troops have dug in along a front line that spans much of the Black and Azov Sea coasts, including the port city of Mariupo
  
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• The future of military logistics is predictive

  12-02-2025 13:00 via defenseone.com
  
  Among the many lessons of the Ukraine war is that traditional reactive logistics models are dangerously outdated.Russia’s experience shows this. From February 2022’s 40-mile stalled convoy outside Kyiv to more recent ammunition shortages at the front, the Russian military's sustainment failures have proven as devastating as any weapon system. Russia's forces waited until units ran out of fuel before attempting resupply. They discovered parts shortages only when vehicles broke down. T
  
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• Space Force warns industry on cost overruns

  12-02-2025 08:32 via defenseone.com
  
  The Space Force will change current contracts to fixed-price agreements or break them into more manageable pieces if they see programs heading for major cost overruns, an official said Tuesday. “We're going to look hard at figuring out how to get out of that, and that's going to be painful on all sides. We're going to have discussions like, ‘Hey, how do we convert this to fixed price? How do we start breaking this apart?’ So I want to give a fair warning to industry out th
  
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• Trump orders agencies to plan widespread layoffs and reduce hiring

  12-02-2025 01:00 via defenseone.com
  
  President Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order that will require federal agencies to severely curtail hiring, once the current freeze is lifted, and to develop new plans to implement widespread layoffs across government. [Editor's note: The order says the layoffs do not apply to military personnel, and that agency heads "may exempt from this order any position they deem necessary to meet national security, homeland security, or public safety responsibilities."]The order will plac
  
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