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• After NSA firings, will Trump appoint a loyalist to lead spy agency?

  07-04-2025 22:52 via defenseone.com
  
  Experts worry that President Trump—having fired the director and deputy director of the National Security Agency—might appoint a partisan political figure to lead the nation’s principal signals-intelligence office.Gen. Timothy Haugh, a four-star general who had served in the role since early last year, was fired late Thursday at the recommendation of far-right activist Laura Loomer, who earlier that day had urged the president to fire a handful of Natio
  
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• Can Navy warships follow aviators’ path to 80%-deployable rates?

  07-04-2025 22:07 via defenseone.com
  
  A decade ago, three out of four of the Navy’s fighter and electronic warfare jets weren’t fit for combat, prompting the service to set a goal for 80-percent mission-capable rates. They got there in a year. Now the service is hoping to make similar magic happen again—this time with its surface and submarine fleets.To pull it off, the Navy is looking at some of the lessons-from its aviation readiness crisis—like cutting down the amount of time a platform spends in scheduled
  
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• US weapons support for Ukraine doesn’t compete with Taiwan goals: report

  07-04-2025 18:00 via defenseone.com
  
  Can the United States simultaneously arm Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel without hollowing out its own arsenal? A new report by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, shared exclusively ahead of publication with Defense One, says yes—for now. But, the report adds, the U.S. defense industry may not be able to keep it up without major reform and new investment.The 89-page report, “Arsenal of Democracy: Arming Taiwan, Ukraine, and Israel While Strengthening the U.S. Industrial Base,&rdq
  
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• The D Brief: Murky hiring freeze; Trump tariff turmoil; Cuts for CISA; GOPer slams NSA firing; And a bit more.

  07-04-2025 17:02 via defenseone.com
  
  Hegseth’s murky hiring freeze has civilians in limbo. A month into a Defense Department hiring freeze meant to shrink the civilian workforce, some employees who had been preparing to move into new positions are still living out of hotel rooms, with their personal belongings long since shipped overseas. While Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has, on paper, allowed exemptions for some jobs, a lack of clarity on the process and a requirement that every approval go through his office has left pe
  
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