Tag: cybersecurity

On August 20, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a joint statement on the meeting of the Election Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council (GCC). The GCC met virtually to discuss Election Day preparations and other areas of coordination between the federal government and state and local election officials. According to the statement, the federal […]

Featured article: Defense Against Weaponized Information: A Human Problem, Not Just A Technical One by Nicholas J. Kane In the Information Age, near-infinite data is available with just a few clicks of a mouse. Furthermore, users, wittingly or unwittingly, offer up much personal information that a person, with some basic computer skills and a few social […]

Featured article: Coding Just War Theory: Artificial Intelligence in Warfare by Dana Gingrich Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve decision making is not a new concept. The proliferation of AI, however, makes this period in history a strategic inflection point. Tomorrow’s wars will be fought and won using AI. The United States military must understand […]

Featured article: Cyber Attacks The New WMD Challenge to the Interagency by Quan Hai T. Lu The President of the United States recently said that “cyber threat is one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation.” Advances in transistor design and integrated circuits have accelerated technologies exponentially. U.S. […]

National Security Trump’s Budget Harms National Security, The Atlantic Acting SecDef: ‘We Won’t Do Cost-Plus-50’, Defense One Pentagon: Trump’s ‘cost plus 50’ plan hasn’t been discussed with Europe, The Hill Trump Seeks ‘Historic’ Federal Spending Cuts to Boost Defense and Border Wall, Government Executive Pentagon officially stands up Space Development Agency, names first director, Defense […]

Featured article: Lessons for Cyber Policymakers by James Torrence Critical infrastructure keeps our food fresh, our houses warm, our trade flowing, and our citizens productive and safe. The vulnerability of U.S. critical infrastructure to cyber, physical, and electromagnetic attacks means that adversaries could disrupt military command and control, banking and financial operations, the electrical grid, […]

National Security Here’s the breakdown of the Pentagon’s budget request, Defense News Russia’s New Missiles Are Aimed at the U.S., Foreign Policy The US Army Is Trying to Bury the Lessons of the Iraq War, Defense One Trump Seeks ‘Historic’ Federal Spending Cuts to Boost Defense and Border Wall, Government Executive Are the right hiring […]

National Security What’s the next step for ISIS? A top US general shares his prediction with lawmakers, Defense News Trump would be ‘very disappointed’ in Kim if missile test facility being reassembled, Washington Examiner House Dems threaten to block Pentagon’s money-moving authority in border wall fight, Defense News Why America can’t escape its role in […]

National Security Is Trump Giving Up on a Nuclear-Free North Korea?, The Atlantic The good, the bad, and the ugly at the US-North Korea summit in Hanoi, Brookings Trump says he didn’t discuss with Kim Jong Un an end to military exercises, Politico Border wall casts long shadow over FY20 defense budget — and that’s […]

National Security The Dangerous Spread of Extremist Manifestos, The Atlantic Trump’s top Border Patrol official explains the two crises America faces at the border, Washington Examiner The Nuclear Game Theory of the India-Pakistan Crisis, The Atlantic The Security Clearance Process Is About to Get Its Biggest Overhaul in 50 Years, Nextgov Trump and Kim abruptly […]