EXCLUSIVE: Walter Reed scientists expect to announce that they have developed a vaccine that protects people from COVID-19 and all its variants, even Omicron |
@TaraCopp
BREAKING: US Planning to Evacuate Afghan Interpreters, Top US General Says // Milley: “…for not just the interpreters but a lot of other people that have worked with the United States.”
@TaraCopp
The achievement is the result of almost two years of work on the virus. The Army lab received its first DNA sequencing of the COVID-19 virus in early 2020.
"Over the last decade, individuals and groups fueled by this virulent ideology have committed 71 percent of the known politically or religiously inspired killings in our country — that is, 274 of the 387 Americans murdered by extremists."
U.S. troops are volunteering to fly people seeking an abortion from states that have banned the procedure to states where they can receive care, arguing that they donned a uniform to fight for freedom—including “freedom of choice" |
@jacqklimas
Russia’s requests to Interpol for Red Notices—the closest instrument to an international arrest warrant—against Kremlin opponents are being met with increasing deference by the Department of Homeland Security. |
@NatashaBertrand
So far, only House Democrats have chosen to hold themselves publicly accountable for how they plan to handle any stolen documents that come their way. |
@NatashaBertrand
Mattis is telling you that the president lacks respect for allies and a clear-eyed view of malign actors and strategic competitors, writes
@davidfrum
|
Ready for a new-look Air Force One? Lawmakers aren't.
A House panel drafted legislation requiring congressional approval if President Trump wants to change the aircraft's Kennedy-era paint job.
“I think it’s going to be vitally important that Congress step into the void and become the champion of democracy and human rights,” says Rep. Adam Schiff. |
@UriLF
Mattis is telling you that the president lacks respect for allies and a clear-eyed view of malign actors and strategic competitors. | Commentary by
@davidfrum
Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin urged lawmakers to pass a full-year defense budget arguing investments in new, more modern weapons are needed to counter China and Russia.
The U.S. Navy may become like the Russian fleet if it focuses solely on the quantity of ships instead of on whether vessels are properly maintained, armed, and crewed by well-trained sailors, the top admiral said Monday |
@MarcusReports
America Is Acting Like a Failed State, writes
@DKThomp
, because the White House has failed to perform the most basic function of a state: to accurately assess a threat to the country. via
@TheAtlantic
Elon Musk is not the only defense-industry exec who showed up for the Space Force’s first change-of-command ceremony. But the SpaceX founder and controversial new owner of Twitter was the only one who got a by-name call out from the CJCS.
Russia stole US agencies' emails from Microsoft systems, CISA says | The alert comes a week after DHS faulted the company for a security culture that enabled a similar China-backed cyberattack last year.
Senior White House Official: Wagner Mercenaries More ‘Aggressive’ Than Russian Military | The Wagner group is doing what the regular Russian military can’t. But it’s still losing. by
@DefTechPat
Why Would Biden Pick Susan Rice? His ticket doesn’t need another foreign-policy expert — nor another easy Obama-era target. | Commentary by
@DefenseBaron
DARPA puts millions behind effort to power drones with ground-based lasers | Raytheon gets $10 million to develop energy “webs” that could keep drones in the air indefinitely.
#darpa
Today's D Brief:
• Russia progressing slowly in E. Ukraine
• Incendiary use spreading?
• US mulls long-range rockets
• Iran's new ship; And a bit more. (illustration via
@TheStudyofWar
)
A Minuteman III ICBM test launch scheduled for this week is now postponed,
@PentagonPresSec
says at the Pentagon just now, so there is no possibility of the U.S.'s intentions being misunderstood
NEW: The Biden administration will not lift the Trump administration’s ban on Turkey buying F-35 stealth fighters, which was a punishment for Ankara’s 2019 purchase of a Russian air-defense system, a senior Pentagon official said Friday. |
@MarcusReports
The Pentagon had already begun moving new aid toward Ukraine in anticipation of its release this morning by the U.S. president, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs said Wednesday. Read the story by
@deftechpat
:
US will ‘continue to provide' ATACMS for Ukraine, National Security Advisor says | Months of work to build up stocks means the U.S. can give Ukraine more of the sought-after long-range weapon.
The plane China built to rival the United States’ B-21 stealth bomber doesn’t even come close to U.S. capability, a U.S. intel official said Monday. Read the story by
@audrey_decker9
:
“The women’s movement in northern Syria is more like a women’s earthquake. In this sliver of the Middle East a tectonic shift of politics & governance is underway in which women’s equality now sits at the center of everything that comes next.”
@gaylelemmon
Until now, there was room for reasonable disagreement over impeachment as both a matter of politics and a matter of tactics. But not anymore, says
@RadioFreeTom
Under SecDef Esper, senior defense officials and uniformed military commanders have begun to appear on right-wing talk shows. That’s not taking care to avoid partisan politics; that’s feeding them up to the lions in the Colosseum, writes
@DefenseBaron
A group of Ukrainian hackers says it has found ways to disrupt Russian military units’ navigation and is working on ways to disrupt artillery fire as well |
@DefTechPat
ULA has an ambitious plan to ‘reuse’ Vulcan rocket: keep it in space | The heavy-lift rocket’s upper stage might extend its service as a tug or defender. by
@audrey_decker9
A group of 20-somethings built a GPS-independent drone in 24 hours—and caught the eye of US special operations forces | Here’s what that says about the new class of defense industry disruptors. by
@deftechpat
“What we're learning from the war in Ukraine is big, slow things are big, slow targets, whether it's warships or tanks,” Raytheon Technologies CEO Greg Hayes said in an interview last week |
@MarcusReports