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Walter Pincus • The Cipher Brief

A Background Check Logjam Is a National Security Problem

OPINION — "It's unacceptable how we got to where we are, and we need to turn this thing around…We're eight and a half years into a three-year...

07/03/24Read it on The Cipher Brief
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09/25/26
Natalie Oliverio • Military Times

Military Personnel Data Exposed in Breach, Agency Warns

A vulnerability in a Defense Manpower Data Center system allowed unauthorized users to access files containing unencrypted personal information,...

09/25/26Read it on Military Times
09/12/26
Stephen Gordon • Small Wars Journal

The End of Uncontested ISR

Why U.S. Special Operations must rediscover Special Reconnaissance

09/12/26Read it on Small Wars Journal
09/05/26
Jonathan Swan, Adam Entous, Maggie Haberman & Eric Schmitt • The New York Times

Pentagon Gives Polygraph Tests to Joint Staff Members

About 50 people were tested, an unparalleled inquiry that comes in the wake of news reports about the war with Iran and the U.S. military's...

09/05/26Read it on The New York Times
09/03/26
Burak Oktenli • RealClearDefense

The Pentagon's Public Disclosures Need a Mosaic Test

Defense doctrine already recognizes that individually harmless facts can become sensitive when assembled. Public campaign communications should...

09/03/26Read it on RealClearDefense
08/31/26
Jon Harper • DefenseScoop

Pentagon Awards $318M Contract for Dataminr Tech

08/31/26Read it on DefenseScoop
08/21/26
Brandi Vincent • DefenseScoop

DIU Tries To Transition Tech to the Frontlines Faster

The initiative marks the unit's latest move under Owen West's leadership to rapidly supply measurable combat power to the joint force

08/21/26Read it on DefenseScoop
08/17/26
N. Slayton • TP

U.S. Bases 'Ill-Equipped' to Stop Drone Attacks: NORAD Deputy

08/17/26Read it on TP
08/17/26
Staff • DS

DIA's AI Chief Expects 'Agent-to-Agents' Interactions Supporting Ops

08/17/26Read it on DS
08/14/26
Laura Heckmann • National Defense Magazine

NORTHCOM Lacks Sensors To Counter Drone Threat

Determining where a drone swarm is going to attack depends on sensors, as well as having an intercept capability to get after the problem

08/14/26Read it on National Defense Magazine
08/12/26
Thomas Novelly • Defense One

Next Generation Interceptor Passes Two Key Tests

Lockheed Martin's new ICBM killer, ordered two years ago to supersede the oft-troubled GMD interceptor, hit two major milestones this week and is...

08/12/26Read it on Defense One
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