"My general view is that this president or any president deserve to have multiple options to deal with national security situations," Milley said. "And my advice is listened to. And I have an opportunity to express my voice on a continuous basis many, many times.”
"What we don't want to do is launch a weapon that then opens a seeker and there's nothing there, because the target has maneuvered," Vice Adm. Jon Hill, said.
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"I don't see another obvious explanation other than it was a weapons test," said Brian Weeden of the Secure World Foundation.
DoD never entered its own classified testing into the record during the Ligado proceedings, according to FCC chair Ajit Pai, "despite the fact that we have procedures in place for filing classified materials with the FCC -- procedures other agencies routinely have followed."
Former intelligence officials told us they were worried about London’s decision to allow the Chinese giant’s technology on parts of its new 5G network. A vulnerability anywhere in the system, they argue, threatens security everywhere.
There is "a significant opportunity for the United States to come to the table and negotiate with North Korea and at least begin the steps to take the program back," says Ranking HASC Member Mike Turner.
Cybersecurity skills must evolve in near-real time as Zero Day threats continue and AI provides new challenges.
Democrats and Republicans sparred all night over nukes in the 2020 defense policy bill, but the Democrats had the votes. For now.
The Pentagon has long worried about the multi-billion dollar price tag that comes along with building a new interceptor field and its infrastructure. Influential lawmakers want a permanent site built that will support close to 1,000 jobs in their districts.
Insiders were blindsided by her departure. So who fills her seat in the Pentagon?
WASHINGTON: The first concrete step to creating an independent force of trained and equipped space warriors occurred today — but that’s not the most important step on space the nation should take, the Air Force Chief of Staff said today. Setting up Space Command, so the US can more effectively fight any war that involves space assets, […]
"The waste would be absolutely stunning,” Secretary Spenser said. To cut the already-completed 2020 budget plan so steeply on such little notice, he said, “some of the scenarios will make your eyes water for what we will have to do” in his shipbuilding and maintenance accounts.
After five years of talks and a wall of Russian denials, NATO and Washington call Putin's bluff and say they're ready to do something about Russian violations of a 31 year-old arms control treaty. But Europe is worried.
After waiting almost three decades to audit itself, the Pentagon still failed miserably in its first attempt. Despite top officials brushing the failure off an an expected learning experience, real questions remain over whether it can fix itself.
House Armed Services Committee pushes through most of the Trump administration's budget requests, absent some of the usual fights. But the return of sequester looms large in 2020.