One year after announcing the launch of the Non-Traditional and Emerging Transportation Technology (NETT) Council, U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today released Pathways to the Future of Transportation. Read More »

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security convened a virtual version of the XIII edition of the Meeting of Ministers and Secretaries of Security of Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama and the Department of Homeland Security of the United States of America otherwise known as the Regional Security Conference (RSC). . Read More »

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Concern over the growing power and influence of Russia in the Mediterranean is being expressed by various experts and within the armed forces. Read More »

Retired military leaders who take part in partisan campaigns do no favors for themselves or the active military service, Brookings Federal Executive Fellows Eric Reid and Thomas Burke said. Read More »

In an analysis published June 29, the Project on Government Oversight (POGO), a watchdog nonprofit that exposes government waste, criticized Pentagon officials for weapons spending that largely ignores the COVID-19 epidemic, but enriches weapons makers. Read More »

As the COVID-19 pandemic persists, the Army’s top enlisted Soldier believes silver linings have been found during this new normal, as the service delves deeper into the digital space to complete missions. Read More »

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced today the Department of Education has approved the final wave of career and technical education (CTE) plans under the bipartisan Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (Perkins V), which was signed into law by President Donald J. Trump on July 31, 2018. Alaska, Connecticut, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, and West Virginia are the latest states, along with Puerto Rico, to have their CTE plans approved. Nine additional states combined their CTE plans with their Workforce Innovation and Opportunities Act (WIOA) plans which have also been approved: Alabama, Delaware, Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, and Washington. Read More »

On Friday, the Department of Health and Human Services, in response to a request from the State of Texas, granted a 14-day extension of federal support for five Community-Based Testing Sites (CBTS) in Texas. Read More »

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is weighing the possibility of changing the definitions of companies that have access to the $17 billion currently allocated for COVID-19 aid, Reuters reported. Read More »

U.S. arms sales are suffering due to the COVID-19 pandemic that has caused the United States and its allies to have less to spend, Defense News reports. Read More »

The Defense Department is involved in its own cybersecurity efforts at every level, and DOD also assists other government agencies, the intelligence community and international partners, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy said. Read More »

The U.S. military could lose a war against China or Russia, according to a Congressional Research Service report, citing a study by the National Defense Strategy Commission. Read More »

As the Pentagon calls for $3.6 billion to develop new hypersonic weapons next year, critics fear a new arms race is at bay, the Christian Science Monitor reports. Read More »

Thanks to work by the Defense Department's COVID-19 Joint Acquisition Task Force, U.S. industry is expected to greatly increase the production of N95 masks next year, the task force's director said. Read More »

The Trump Administration is considering the possibility of doing an underground nuclear test, the first in 28 years, apparently in an attempt to prod Russia and China to negotiate a new arms treaty, the Washington Post reports. Read More »

The COVID-19 pandemic has killed more Americans in four months than all that have died in all wars for the last half-century, NBC News reports. Read More »

Some of Silicon Valley's largest companies are facing decisions from the Department of Justice on antitrust violations, which could result in national security ramifications, Brookings reported. Read More »

U.S. Air Force F-15s assigned to the 48th Fighter Wing at Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England; F-16s assigned to the 31st Fighter Wing at Aviano Air Base, Italy; F-16s assigned to the 52nd Fighter Wing at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany; KC-135s assigned to the 100th Air Refueling Wing at Royal Air Force Mildenhall, England and NATO Airborne Warning And Control System aircraft from Geilenkirchen Air Base, Germany, participated in a large force exercise in the United Kingdom's North Sea airspace. Read More »

As Master Sgt. Acie Matthews Jr. walked past a group of loud protesters next to Minnesota’s state capitol building Monday, one of its organizers targeted him with her loudspeaker. Read More »