United States Office of Management and Budget

The truth about America’s munitions crisis

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Regarding the Proposed Policy Statement Concerning the Suppression of Accuracy in Artificial Intelligence Systems

Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance

Quantum Computers Are Coming. Washington Is Finally Paying Attention.

Encryption protects your data from prying eyes. The complex math problems that underpin encryption, however, may soon no longer keep your data safe. Quantum computers test multiple answers simultaneously,...

Rowing in the Same Direction

The Need for and Risks of Allied Contributions to Reindustrialization

AI-Amplified Narratives: Measuring Propaganda in LLM Citations

Trump Can’t Have ‘Peace Through Strength’ on a Biden Defense Budget

It will be difficult for President Trump to implement his ‘Peace Through Strength’ foreign policy with a Biden defense budget. The Trump administration requested a $892.6 billion base defense budget...

The Pentagon must balance speed with safety as it modernizes software

The Department of Defense is at grave risk of being caught flat-footed by the next software vulnerability. When an adversary discovers it, the Pentagon may not know which systems are exposed until substantial...

Trump is Right to Prioritize Homeland Missile Defense

President Trump issued an executive order, “The Iron Dome for America,” on January 27, jumpstarting a major effort to deploy and maintain a “next generation” missile shield to better...

2024 Annual Report on Implementation

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The Urgent Need for UN Reform

The UN’s response to October 7 makes reform more urgent than ever. UN reform used to be a bipartisan priority — it must now be again.

The State of US’ India policy

The United States sends mixed messages to India.On the one hand, Washington highlighted the importance of India’s rise and leadership in its Indo-Pacific Strategy, designated India a Major Defense Partner,...

‘SBOM’ disclosure rules loom for federal software procurement

The Software Bill of Materials, or SBOM, disclosure requirement is coming for federal agencies and their contractors. Are managers and executives ready? An SBOM is a formal, machine-readable inventory...

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: October

Workforce Development Agenda for the National Cyber Director

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...

How the National Cyber Director Position Is Going to Work: Frequently Asked Questions

The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal 2021 created the Office of the National Cyber Director within the Executive Office of the President. The office will be headed by the United States’s...

A Cyber Opportunity: Priorities For The First National Cyber Director

Despite the negative headlines surrounding the SolarWinds hack, President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will soon inherit an executive branch moving slowly in the right direction...

Lebanon is gone

As Lebanon grapples for the second month with popular anti-government protests, there’s been a tempest in a teapot on Capitol Hill over the status of military assistance to the country. Following a trip...