SpaceX and Blue Origin abruptly shift priorities amid US Golden Dome push
The largest U.S. commercial space companies recently shifted priorities toward lunar development, just as DOD pushes its next-gen missile shield plans.
By Brooke Griswold
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Pentagon official blesses Europe’s push to spend defense money at home
“Otherwise people in Germany or Poland or whatever are going to say: ‘Why are we only sending money across the Atlantic?’” said the Pentagon policy chief.
This week in Congress: After Thanksgiving break, but before the next shutdown threat
Defense and veterans hearings on Capitol Hill for the week of Nov. 26.
Trump says troops are ‘proud’ to serve on the southern border at Thanksgiving
About 5,900 active-duty troops will spend the holiday working on border security assistance.
It has cost $72 million so far to deploy active-duty troops to the border, Pentagon says
The price tag includes the costs of bringing troops home.
By Tara Copp, AP
Trump statement sticks with Saudis, hyping economic benefits of alliance
President Donald Trump released a lengthy statement justifying the U.S. alliance with Saudi Arabia by focusing on domestic economic benefits and the threat from Iran.
By Joe Gould
Elizabeth Warren, Beto O’Rourke and Jackie Speier question Mattis over border deployments
Democrats, who will gain new oversight powers when they take control of the House in January, are already grilling the Trump administration over its deployment of troops to the U.S.-Mexico border.
By Joe Gould
Here’s what the Pentagon’s first-ever audit found
1,150 auditors worked over the last year digging through the department, but what did they find?
By Aaron Mehta
GAO shuts down Oracle’s JEDI protest, but it’s not over yet
One JEDI protest down ... many, many more likely to go.
By Brandon Knapp and Amber Corrin
A ‘crisis of national security’: New report to Congress sounds alarm
America’s military superiority has “eroded to a dangerous degree,” leaving the U.S. in crisis if faced with more than one conflict at once, a new congressionally-mandated report concluded.
By Aaron Mehta
Why is it important to prosecute cyber criminals?
Meagan Stifel from the Atlantic Council lays out the need for prosecuting cyber criminals at Cybercon 2018.
By Jeff Martin
New DoD cyber strategies set clear priorities for the department
Clark Cully, a top DoD cyber advisor, talks to Fifth Domain about the department's new cyber strategy.
By Jeff Martin