Months after the White House raised hopes for bringing home thousands of U.S. battlefield remains from North Korea, the returns have stalled. Detailed negotiations on future recovery arrangements have not even begun.
The slower pace appears linked...
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The incoming chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Eliot Engel, who took part in the CIA and Pentagon briefings, is calling for the committee to hold hearings on Saudi Arabia starting in 2019.
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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - A Turkish unilateral military operation in northeast Syria if launched would be unacceptable and Ankara should consult with the United States to address the security situation, Defense Department spokesperson Cmdr. Sean...
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The Pentagon, Nutella and Texas didn't do much better, according to a list from password managing app Dashlane.
Oracle filed suit in federal court last week alleging yet again that the decade-long $10 billion Pentagon JEDI contract with its single-vendor award is unfair and illegal. The complaint, which has been sealed at Oracle’s request, is...
Google's top AI researcher Geoff Hinton discusses a controversial Pentagon contract, a shortage of radical ideas, and fears of an "AI winter."
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A technology company linked to a sanctioned Russian oligarch is among the bidders for a Pentagon contract to store sensitive data — possibly even U.S. nuclear codes. Viktor Vekselberg, who is close to the Kremlin and has ties to former Trump...
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The U.S. military on Tuesday successfully conducted a test of a new ballistic-missile interceptor system, which is being co-developed with Japan.
The launch marks the second successful test in less than two months for the SM-3 Block IIA missile...
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Barely two months removed from President Donald Trump telling Pentagon planners to reduce spending in 2020, the White House is now talking about a massive budget increase. Defense investors should tread cautiously and not overreact to comments made...
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At the beginning of December, President Donald Trump was very unhappy with the high price of militarism. "I am certain that, at some time in the future, [Chinese] President Xi [Jinping] and I, together with President [Vladimir] Putin of Russia, will...
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Great way to make friends during procurement for a $10bn contract, eh Larry? Fresh from defeat at the hands of the US Government Accountability Office, Oracle has taken its battle against the single-vendor Pentagon cloud contract to court.…
Sundar Pichai, in his public debut in Congress, is expected to address privacy, allegations of anti-conservative bias, a censored search tool for China and a scuttled Pentagon contract.(Image credit: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
Related topics: Google, Censorship, China
Task and Purpose, Jeff Schogol
Security, Europe
Why?
As the Russians send bombers to Venezuela, the Pentagon is stopping just short of firing a pistol into the air and yelling “Liberación!”
- The two TU-160 strategic bombers arrived in...
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Kris Osborn
Security,
The new hardware and software, to be operational on the F-35 by 2021, includes seven racks per aircraft consisting of 1,500 module components, including new antennas and weapons release systems.
The Pentagon and Lockheed are...
Amid a push by the Senate to vote on ending US support for the Saudi-led coalition waging war in Yemen this week, a new report indicates that American tankers have been refueling Saudi coalition jets with gas paid for by US taxpayers because of...
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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The Department of Defence will soon withdraw several hundred US active duty troops from the southern border with Mexico, Pentagon spokesperson Col. Rob Manning told reporters.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has backed plans to request $750 billion from Congress for defense spending next year, a U.S. official said on Sunday, signaling a Pentagon spending hike at a time of potential belt-tightening elsewhere in the government....
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Dan Grazier
Security,
The troubled $1.5 trillion F-35 program is not ready to begin the critical combat-testing phase, the Pentagon’s testing director said in a previously undisclosed August memo obtained by the Center for Defense Information...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Airbus (NASDAQOTH: EADSY) are teaming up to refight one of the most controversial Pentagon procurement battles in recent memory, hoping to unseat Boeing (NYSE: BA) as the dominant provider of U.S. military...
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Army Gen. Mark Milley has warned that Russia and China represent “faint clouds of a coming storm” for the United States. He’s accused lawmakers who fail to approve regular Pentagon budgets of “professional malpractice.” And he's said he...
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