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• Defense Business Brief: DOD lab audits?; Notes from McAleese; Spotlight on Alabama manufacturing

  18-03-2026 23:30 via defenseone.com
  The Pentagon should audit its labs and their projects to make sure scientists aren’t developing technology that can be bought off-the-shelf or spun up by startups, according to a recommendation from the Ronald Reagan Institute’s latest National Security Innovation Base report card. "The review would specifically be focused on, given all the emphasis on commercial first, ensuring that those organizations and that funding is properly aligned and not duplicative of, or in some case
  
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• DNI's threat assessment omits foreign election interference

  18-03-2026 20:52 via defenseone.com
  For the first time in nearly a decade, foreign threats to U.S. elections are omitted from the intelligence community's annual threat assessment, suggesting that the Trump administration is shifting focus away from a risk long treated as central to national security.The assessment was delivered on the heels of a major global threats hearing in the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday, where Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe testified a
  
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• Annual threat assessment omits election security

  18-03-2026 20:52 via defenseone.com
  For the first time in nearly a decade, foreign threats to U.S. elections are omitted from the intelligence community's annual threat assessment, suggesting that the Trump administration is shifting focus away from a risk long treated as central to national security.The assessment was delivered on the heels of a major global threats hearing in the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday, where Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe testified a
  
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