Fiscal year

The Digital Battlefield

How Terrorists Use the Internet and Online Networks for Recruitment and Radicalization

South Africa Must Change Course on Hamas

While Washington is primarily focused on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit and address to Congress this week, another side of the global conflagration around Israel’s war of self-defense...

Update on Russia-Ukraine War – status, next steps

United States Cyber Force

A Defense Imperative

Congress Should Protect U.S. Leadership in Quantum Research

The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology heard from administration officials and academic experts last week on the importance of reauthorizing the National Quantum Initiative (NQI) Act to...

President’s cyber budget request is off to a good start; Congress should fill the gaps

The White House released the President’s Budget Request for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 last month, just a few days after issuing the much-anticipated National Cybersecurity Strategy....

Composite Violent Extremism: Conceptualizing Attackers Who Increasingly Challenge Traditional Categories of Terrorism

Excerpt Counterterrorism practitioners have increasingly drawn attention to acts of violent extremism which, in the words of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director Christopher Wray, “don’t...

Cyberspace Domain Operations Rely on the Cyber Workforce to Succeed

The Department of Defense (DOD) released an update last week to its plan to provide flexible role-specific training for its cyber workforce. This effort continues DOD’s successful approach to cyber workforce...

Ban These Chinese Chipmakers from Pentagon Purchases

Congress should pass a proposed expansion of the law that keeps the federal government from buying certain companies’ products.

Maximum Support for the Iranian People: A New Strategy

Introduction U.S. policy since the 2009 election-related uprising in Iran has gradually incorporated a variety of human rights related sanctions and designations to name, shame, penalize, and deter Iranian...

Congress Invests in National Cyber Resilience but Misses Important Opportunities in the Consolidated Appropriations Act

Congress’s newly completed annual appropriations bill provides significant funding increases for a number of critical cybersecurity programs, including for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security...

Reconciliation of China bills in Congress could produce big cybersecurity wins

Excerpt Congress deserves mixed grades for its recent efforts to strengthen the nation’s cybersecurity and improve the resilience of its critical infrastructure. If Republicans and Democrats can find...

Congress Joins European Allies in Targeting Erdogan’s Far-Right Partners

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on September 23 that includes an amendment requiring the secretary of state to submit a report assessing whether Turkey’s Grey Wolves — a far-right militant...

Re-Engineering America’s Cyber Glass House

Blackouts caused by an explosion hit the Natanz uranium enrichment site in Iran last Sunday in what appears to be an attack aimed at slowing down nuclear weapons development. Iran blamed Israel for the...

Biden Should Heed Senate’s Call for Tougher Action Against Erdogan

Fifty-four U.S. senators signed a bipartisan letter Tuesday urging President Joe Biden to press the Turkish government to improve its troubling human rights record. The letter calls on the Biden administration...

U.S.-Israel Operations-Technology Working Group Authorization Provides Opportunity for Biden Administration

The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2021, which became law last week, includes a provision authorizing the establishment of a U.S.-Israel Operations-Technology Working Group (OTWG)....

Congress Poised To Enact Unprecedented Cyber Defense Legislation

The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2021 (FY21) is the most significant attempt ever undertaken by Congress to improve national cybersecurity and protect U.S. critical infrastructure...

Is Esper’s New Plan For The Navy Enough For The Indo-Pacific?

Recent wargames suggest the U.S. Navy would have a hard time fighting China, but this might be nothing compared to infighting Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and his successors will have to manage to build...

Congress Sends Defense Authorization Bill to President

The Senate voted 86-8 on Tuesday to pass the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2020, sending the bill – which had already passed 377-48 in the House – to the president for...