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The failure of integrated deterrence, and what to do about China

Modernization must not be sacrificed during this time of crisis, or we risk winning the battle to ultimately lose the war.

30 hours ago

Technical debt: The cybersecurity threat hiding in plain sight

The Biden Administration’s executive order on cybersecurity in May 2021 jump started the movement toward a zero trust architecture.

2 days ago

Hurricane Ian flooding hits Naval Air Station Key West, Sept. 28.

Management

How states are preparing for the Emergency Resiliency Era

Hurricane Ian serves as a tragic reminder to federal and state leaders about the critical need to prepare for emergency disasters—before they arrive.

Voting rights activists hold signs near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on January 19, 2022.

Passing Electoral Count Act reforms is vital to national security

Nine senior former defense officials and military leaders warn about national security threats America faces due to weaknesses in the Electoral Count Act.

2 weeks ago

Ukraine needs help to counter Iranian-made ballistic missiles, drones

Iran could soon provide the Russian military with even deadlier weapons than the Iranian drones it has been using to target Ukraine.

2 weeks ago

Three strategies for US agencies to modernize, simplify cloud security

Deadline for the five pillars established by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s zero-trust model is fast approaching.

3 weeks ago

How Robotic Process Automation is helping federal agencies manage data

RPA and the use of intelligent bots are proving critical for agencies seeking to automate time-consuming manual processes.

3 weeks ago

Airmen assigned to the 28th Bomb Wing recieve a U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer assigned to the 37th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, after landing at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, in support of a Bomber Task Force mission, Oct. 18, 2022. Bomber missions contribute to joint force lethality and deter aggression in the Indo-Pacific by demonstrating the U.S. Air Force’s ability to operate anywhere in the world at any time in support of the National Defense Strategy. (Senior Airman Yosselin Campos/Air Force)

US Air Force’s ‘divest to invest’ plan is too risky

This strategy may look attractive on paper, but past attempts show that it doesn’t work in practice. Here’s why.

3 weeks ago

Robust cryptographic policies will help save military software systems

How can we build resilient software systems out of unreliable parts?

3 weeks ago

How US intelligence agencies can diversify secretive workforces

For organizations that often operate behind a veil of secrecy, it can be difficult to build an attractive public brand.

3 weeks ago

The human touch: ‘Artificial General Intelligence’ is next phase of AI

AGI is the ability of an intelligent agent to understand or learn any intellectual task in the same way that humans do.

4 weeks ago

Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough visited the Veterans Row encampment in Los Angeles in 2021.

Drop in veteran homelessness proves we can end homelessness

New data shows that veteran homelessness in the U.S. has decreased by 11% since 2020, the last year for which we have complete data.

4 weeks ago

Demystifying the five ‘sights’ of artificial intelligence

Hindsight, foresight, insight, oversight and rightsight all needed to unlock AI's full potential.

4 weeks ago

Avoid being blindsided by CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list

Here are three ways to predict items that are likely candidates to make it onto the CISA KEV.

4 weeks ago

A Counter Rocket, Artillery, Mortar weapon system is test fired on Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Jan. 13, 2018.

Send Ukraine C-RAMs and VAMPIREs to help defeat Iranian drones

Washington should deliver Vehicle-Agnostic Modular Palletized ISR Rocket Equipment (VAMPIRE) and Counter–Rocket, Artillery, Mortar (C-RAM) systems asap.

5 weeks ago

Enhance US rare earth security through international cooperation

China is dominating battery material separation and processing as well as component manufacturing.

5 weeks ago

Congress must act to boost combat-credible airpower in Indo-Pacific

Lawmakers should prohibit the withdrawal of F-15s from Japan pending the submission of a classified assessment, these authors argue.

5 weeks ago

State Dept. plan to track weapons for Ukraine should be starting point

Since the conflict began, the U.S. has provided more than $17.6 billion in security assistance to Ukraine.

5 weeks ago

Keeping the human in the OODA Loop

The task of evaluating multiple and disparate datasets is put on analysts and decision makers using tools for visualization.

5 weeks ago

Using disruption to simplify your agency’s approach to data governance

By reducing the repetition and duplication of the data, you will automatically reduce the governing of it.

6 weeks ago

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Federal officials, industry leaders and top academic minds weigh in on the most important federal operations topics of the day.

Modernization must not be sacrificed during this time of crisis, or we risk winning the battle to ultimately lose the war.

The Biden Administration’s executive order on cybersecurity in May 2021 jump started the movement toward a zero trust architecture.

Hurricane Ian serves as a tragic reminder to federal and state leaders about the critical need to prepare for emergency disasters—before they arrive.

Nine senior former defense officials and military leaders warn about national security threats America faces due to weaknesses in the Electoral Count Act.

Iran could soon provide the Russian military with even deadlier weapons than the Iranian drones it has been using to target Ukraine.

Deadline for the five pillars established by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s zero-trust model is fast approaching.

RPA and the use of intelligent bots are proving critical for agencies seeking to automate time-consuming manual processes.

This strategy may look attractive on paper, but past attempts show that it doesn’t work in practice. Here’s why.

How can we build resilient software systems out of unreliable parts?

For organizations that often operate behind a veil of secrecy, it can be difficult to build an attractive public brand.

AGI is the ability of an intelligent agent to understand or learn any intellectual task in the same way that humans do.

New data shows that veteran homelessness in the U.S. has decreased by 11% since 2020, the last year for which we have complete data.

Hindsight, foresight, insight, oversight and rightsight all needed to unlock AI's full potential.

Here are three ways to predict items that are likely candidates to make it onto the CISA KEV.

Washington should deliver Vehicle-Agnostic Modular Palletized ISR Rocket Equipment (VAMPIRE) and Counter–Rocket, Artillery, Mortar (C-RAM) systems asap.

China is dominating battery material separation and processing as well as component manufacturing.

Lawmakers should prohibit the withdrawal of F-15s from Japan pending the submission of a classified assessment, these authors argue.

Since the conflict began, the U.S. has provided more than $17.6 billion in security assistance to Ukraine.

The task of evaluating multiple and disparate datasets is put on analysts and decision makers using tools for visualization.

By reducing the repetition and duplication of the data, you will automatically reduce the governing of it.