www.reuters.com/world/asia-p... If the guy from DeepSeek, speaking at a PRC government conference, says he is "pessimistic" about the impact of AI, how terrified should the rest of us be?

When Space Force leaders discuss cyber threats against the commercial satellite providers they use, they talk abt attacks from nation state adversaries. But for cyber defenders in the commercial space sector the daily reality can be rather different. www.airandspaceforces.com/satellite-op...

My 1st story for ISMG, where I'm covering OT cybersecurity takes off from @60minutes.bsky.social report on Chinese hacking of US power and water utilities. I look at @istorg.bsky.social Josh Corman's efforts to help shore up security in the water sector. www.bankinfosecurity.com/weak-exposed...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth claimed $1.4B savings from cancelling the Air Force's Cloud One contract. But my reporting shows it's not that simple. Cloud services will still be needed, still have to be paid for. In fact, they may cost more. My story: www.airandspaceforces.com/dod-canceled...

ICYMI: @spaceforcedod.bsky.social Sapce Force Building Tools to Detect #Cyberattacks on Satellites www.airandspaceforces.com/space-force-...

USAF training doesn't test kill chains to failure, sez Jon Rhone, fmr cmdr of the 505th Test & Eval “If the first time that we fail at [closing long-range kill chains] is when the blood is flowing, I think we’ve prob done the country a disservice." #asc2025 www.airandspaceforces.com/industry-exp...

Space Systems Command’s Front Door - the one-stop shop for vendors, is getting a rebrand and a leg-up. It will now be called Space Force Front Door and will be a single touchpoint for the whole Space Force. My story for @airandspaceforces.com.web.brid.gy www.airandspaceforces.com/space-system...

U.S. Cyber Command should be replaced by a U.S. Digital Command, which would have CyberCom's cyber role and lead infowar and electromagnetic war ops as well. DoD should also stand up a new military service, the U.S. Digital Corps, argues @scsp.bsky.social www.airandspaceforces.com/pentagon-nee...

Silicon Valley firms like Microsoft have built an electronic carceral for the CCP, using cutting edge data collection and management to enable a totalitarian state. Fuck them. apnews.com/article/chin... Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show

New #AI tools from data giant Palantir could help reduce risks to civilians in war, but only if the military using them has a prof culture that values the laws of war and reducing harm to civilians. My latest story in @airandspaceforces.com.web.brid.gy www.airandspaceforces.com/can-ai-help-...

Air Force’s Big IT Programs Need ‘Course Correction,’ General Says www.airandspaceforces.com/air-forces-b...

Outsourcing the ground segment — the antennas, modems & switches needed to keep contact with a satellite in orbit — is attractive to operators, especially start-ups looking to keep down headcount and capital expenditures. My latest for Via Satellite Mag interactive.satellitetoday.com/via/august-2...

Orbital Watch, the threat sharing service run by @spaceforcedod.bsky.social's Front Door aims to share classified info w cleared companies and execs, and to distribute anonymized threat data from industry. My story for @airandspaceforces.com.web.brid.gy www.airandspaceforces.com/space-force-...

The House & Senate versions of the 2026 NDAA both contain provisions aimed at expanding or speeding the processes to get new tech to warfighters, including two new authorities or mandates for the Defense Innovation Unit. My story for Air & Space Forces Mag: www.airandspaceforces.com/defense-poli...

In an essay out this week, but written last year, Mark Berkowitz, who has since been tapped by the Trump White House as asst secdef for space policy, says that merging the spy agency NRO into Space Force could turbocharge national security space acquisition. www.airandspaceforces.com/defense-poli...

Rather touching story from @theregister.com www.theregister.com/2025/07/07/w...

A half-dozen new space start-ups, two w research contracts from Space Force or Air Force #technology incubators, are currently planning low-Earth orbit (LEO) constellations of small satellites offering more accurate, harder to jam alternatives to GPS. Story www.airandspaceforces.com/space-force-...

The threat of Iranian cyber retaliation for US bombing highlights the reliance of USAF & other military services on civilian infrastructure vulnerable to hackers, like airports. My story 4 ‪‪@airandspaceforces.com.web.brid.gy last week frm #DefendTheAirport www.airandspaceforces.com/dual-use-mil...

For #autonomous vehicles, war fighting and motor racing have more in common than you might think. Both involve pushing limits & require no-fail outcomes even in extreme conditions, BoozAllen CTO Bill Vass and NVIDIA's @ericbreckenfeld.bsky.social told me: www.airandspaceforces.com/what-defense...

Aaron Mannes' fascinating short essay reminds us that the origin of Memorial Day, like everything else in America, is actually about race. open.substack.com/pub/aaronman...

Back in April, my friend @watermanreports.bsky.social wrote a piece remembering Marla Ruzicka. When Marla called, no one in my circle of friends was ever too busy to pick up. She was brave and beautiful on pursuing peace and healing wounds. I treasure her memory. www.upi.com/Defense-News...

ICYMI: My recent reporting on Orbital Watch -- the US Space Force's initiative to share with the private sector information about threats and hazards to satellites in orbit. It's a small start. The "initial operating capacity" will be quarterly briefings, more a gesture than a service. 1/? 🧵

I wrote a 3-part deep dive for @airandspaceforces.com.web.brid.gy into @secdef.govpeeps.us Hegseth's recent memo tearing up rulebook on how the military buys software. In Pt 1, USAF Gen Cropsey tells me the service is already embracing new acquisition tools www.airandspaceforces.com/software-acq...

DoD Chief Software Officer Rob Vietmeyer let slip a little bit of actual news last week, at the AFCEA NoVa #innovation IT Day event. Learning from the epically slow roll out of the CMMC rule Pentagon officials plan a voluntary scheme for contractors products www.airandspaceforces.com/dod-quicker-...

Excited to be covering the AFCEA NoVa IT #Innovation day this morning for @airandspaceforces.com.web.brid.gy. Great speakers incl DoD Chief Software Officer Rob Vietmeyer, @spaceforcedod.bsky.social chief of commercial satcom Jared Reece and reps from the software factories and innovation shops.

The DoD's 1st ever AI chief says the U.S. military "is not well postured yet" to do test & evaluation on modern #software like #AI that needs constant updating. CNAS scholar Josh Wallin says user acceptance is a challenge for AI testers. My story www.airandspaceforces.com/military-ai-...

Grateful for my 3/24 my March 24 convo with Danish journalists touring the U.S. to learn about fueling diversity in Denmark's media. Read all about their visit to the @nationalpress.bsky.social office and how it boosted my "hoptimism" in my @linkedin.com post: www.linkedin.com/posts/rachel...

Today DOJ announced a three-year prison sentence for a DOD employee, a 26-year-old civilian woman from Nevada, who mishandled Top Secret documents by taking them home from a secure facility.

@erratarob.bsky.social has some interesting & characteristically contrarian observations on how the story of the creation of the Internet is normally told. open.substack.com/pub/scytalep...

ICYMI: Last week, I was busy covering the huge SATShow in DC for @satellitetoday.com.web.brid.gy I wrote about remarks of Jay A. Schwarz, the freshly minted director of the FCC'S new #Space Bureau, who promised to "streamline and modernize" space licensing. www.satellitetoday.com/satshow-2025...

The ability to maneuver and do rendezvous and proximity operations in orbit is a key warfighting capability for the 21st century. @usspaceforce.bsky.social top General Michael Guetlein told an event in Washington this week that the Chinese have been practicing. www.defensenews.com/space/2025/0...

@usairforce's iconic #SoftwareDevelopment factory @KesselRunAF is pivoting. Critics charge it's abandoning its original "secret sauce" of hybrid govt-vendor coding teams and returning to a more conventional model of acquisition. My story for @ASForcesMag www.airandspaceforces.com/kessel-run-a...

Old Russian joke: The two most important men in tsarist Russia were Tsar Nicholas II and ... whoever last spoke to Tsar Nicholas II. New Russian joke: When did Gen Keith Kellogg last speak to President Trump? www.military.com/daily-news/2...

@kimzetter.bsky.social reports in @wired.com that a fmr associate of #hacker gang The Com that helped a Russian ransomware gang shut down @mgmresortsintl.bsky.social in Vegas & competes to bully teens online to harm themselves is now on the staff of CISA. Cool, cool. www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

Wow! Interesting news: Katie Arrington, ousted from her role at the Pentagon after charges she allegedly mishandled classified info, said on LinkedIn that she is returning to the funny-shaped building across the river as chief information security officer #CISO www.nextgov.com/defense/2025...

#China is outspending the US on defense research, narrowing or even overturning the tech advantage which has ensured US military superiority in space & other domains, a senior @spaceforcedod.bsky.social official said last week. @satellitetoday.com.web.brid.gy www.satellitetoday.com/cybersecurit...

What the actual fuck. First, they came for the inspectors general, now the public integrity section? This is more than just a very bad look for a new administration.

@spaceforcedod.bsky.social last year passed a milestone, placing an operational US military space communications package on a foreign (Norwegian) satellite for the first time ever. Such collaboration with the closest US allies is set to increase. My story: www.satellitetoday.com/government-m...

Per @mashagessen.bsky.social "In a totalitarian state, everything is political..." The post of chief information officer for most #federal agencies has been reserved for career officials vs political appointees, because of the technical nature of the work. Not any more. meritalk.com/articles/opm...

Tim Edgar, former DNI privacy and civil liberties officer, is out with a cutting analysis of the Supreme Court's unanimous #TikTok decision, which he says was produced by bipartisan panic and "ranks among the worst constitutional decisions in American history." www.linkedin.com/posts/timoth...

BREAKING: Israel and Hamas agreed to a deal to halt fighting in Gaza and exchange Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners, an official briefed on the deal told Reuters reut.rs/40gI8VK

In the past decade, China's military has built 100's of hardened shelters for its aircraft in the Western Pacific. The US only a handful, a gap which creates a destabilizing first-mover advantage for the PLA, according to scholars. My latest story: www.airandspaceforces.com/usaf-aircraf...

20 years ago this year, what happened in the Greater New Orleans area was shocking & unthinkable to most. We’re seeing this level of devastation regularly now & in unlikely places. I’m feeling grief & trauma in the moment, but I know we need to harden ourselves & prepare to live & think differently.

ICYMI last week: DoD CIO has twice in recent years threatened service secretaries with his power to withhold approval for their budget if they don't fix cyber probs he ID'd. Even when forced to spend the money, services often rob other cyber progs My story www.airandspaceforces.com/dod-official...

ICYMI Small business advocates & others are working w Congress on helping smaller innovative companies meet upfront costs of complying w new #cybersecurity rules for defense contractors so they can keep selling to DoD #CMMC My story www.airandspaceforces.com/congress-dod...

My take is that Trump winning in November should've been the end of parties at the White House Everyone deserves to have a little fun as we fall into fascism but there's a difference between going out to eat with friends and holding a gala at the People's House as it is about to be overrun by Nazis

'Of 200 bodies, only 10 were confirmed as Hamas members': IDF soldiers who served in Gaza tell Haaretz that anyone who crosses an imaginary line in the contested Neztarim corridor is shot to death, with every Palestinian casualty counting as a terrorist – even if they were just a child”

This is why I love @edzitron.com. Talking about "innovation," why it's unique to tech and leads to #enshitification "We’re not expected to work out 'the new way to use a toilet' every few months because somebody decided we were finishing too quickly." Hilarious. www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...

Congress and the DoD CIO office are working on tax credits & SBA loans to help small, innovative businesses defray the cost of compliance w new #CMMC #cybersecurity rules, so it doesn't deter them from bidding on defense contracts. My story: www.airandspaceforces.com/congress-dod...

Many experts believe the first thing the Space Force must do to improve its Space Domain Awareness is develop #ArtificialIntelligence tools to help analysts deal w growing orbital complexity. A RAND Corp. team actually built some for them. My latest story www.airandspaceforces.com/experts-spac...