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Cotton: Give China ‘crystal clear’ warning not to invade Taiwan February 18 Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., has taken a tough stance against China, raising his profile in a field ambitious Republican senators and governors are beginning to maneuver. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images) WASHINGTON ― It’s time for the United States to be “crystal clear” it will not allow China to invade Taiwan and will end its longstanding “strategic ambiguity” about whether it would come to the island’s de...

Army labs to host testing to connect joint war-fighting systems January 28 An unmanned ground vehicle equppied with a high-grade camera is prepared to go on a test run during the Project Convergence capstone event last year at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz. Project Convergence is the Army’s campaign to advance solutions for joint war fighting and integrate the services contributions to Joint All Domain Operations. (Spc. Carlos Cuebas Fantauzzi/U.S. Army) ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. — The ...

Getting away from ‘anything goes’: Military leaders set data standards for joint war fighting January 27 U.S. Army Col. Matt Eberhart, the Commanders Initiatives Group (CIG) director with North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) NORTHCOM, speaks in 2020 about the Advanced Battle Management System Onramp 2, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. ABMS is the Air Forces contribution to Joint All-Domain Command and Control. (Senior Airman Daniel Hernandez/U.S. Air Force) ABERDEEN PROVING GROUN...

Nominees for defense secretary and director of national intelligence say more government-private information sharing is needed to prevent breaches.

Pentagon weapons tester wants to delay fielding of new Army tactical network tools January 15 1st. Lt. Michael Austin, platoon leader for Attack Co., 1-503rd Inf. Regt., 173rd Airborne Brigade, uses the Nett Warrior End User Device to report information to his company commander through the integrated tactical network (ITN) during a live-fire exercise in Grafenwoehr, Germany, in 2018. The exercise helped inform ITN basis of issue and inform ITN design decisions. (Spc. Joshua Cofield/U.S. Army...

Pentagon testing office finds problems — again — with network security system Problems keep mounting for the Joint Regional Security Stacks program. (1st Lt. Lauren Woods/U.S. Air Force) WASHINGTON — For the fourth year in a row, the Pentagon’s chief weapons tester recommended Thursday that components stop migrating to a fraught network security system until the department proves that the system can effectively help defend against cyberattacks. The department’s Joint Regional Secu...

Navy CIO 2021 priorities: Don’t return to pre-COVID IT practices January 13 The Navy CIO doesnt want the service to fall back into pre-pandemic IT habits. (MC2 Kaila V. Peters/Navy) WASHINGTON — In 2020, the year marked by telework due to COVID-19, the U.S. Navy learned that it could move rapidly on IT projects. The service doubled its bandwidth in weeks. It built two new sites for its virtual private networks. It quadrupled its telework capacity. After the service did in weeks what N...

Reports had warned about supply chain hacks January 12 The SolarWinds breach shows the risk the U.S. Department of Defense faces from supply chain threats. (cybrain/Getty Images) WASHINGTON – Twice in the last four years, the national security community warned that hacks through IT suppliers posed grave threats to defense and intelligence agencies. Last month, those warnings proved prescient after suspected Russian hackers infiltrated federal agencies through a contractor’s software. ...

Massive spending bill passed by Congress, sent to Trump December 22, 2020 Congress approved a one-week stopgap spending bill to avert a partial government shutdown and to give the president time to sign sweeping budgetary legislation. (Susan Walsh/AP) WASHINGTON — Congress passed a $900 billion pandemic relief package that would finally deliver long-sought cash to businesses and individuals and resources to vaccinate a nation confronting a frightening surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths. ...

Citing mega hack, lawmakers urge Trump to sign defense bill full of cyber protections December 18, 2020 Surrounded by Army cadets, President Donald Trump watches the first half of the 121st Army-Navy Football Game in Michie Stadium at the United States Military Academy, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020, in West Point, N.Y. (Andrew Harnik/AP) WASHINGTON ― Pointing to the huge hack of U.S. government agencies disclosed this week, lawmakers of both parties are calling on President Donald Trump to si...