The Department of Defense does not always announce structural shifts loudly; often, it buries them in the dense columns of budget lines where only the most attentive analysts can find the seismic ...

For a decade the cybersecurity community was predicting a cyber apocalypse tied to a single event - the day a Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computer could run Shor’s algorithm and break the ...

The threat from cyberattacks has never been more acute, but there is reason to worry America is not rising to the challenge. It is not the lack of a cybersecurity strategy, but rather a growing gap ...

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Bob Pearson is Chairman of the Pearson Advisory Group and a Member of the Information Professionals Association.

Peter Pascucci is a commander in the United States Navy and Kurt Sanger is a lieutenant colonel in the United States Marine Corps. They have been legal advisors to senior decision makers on military ...

Douglas H. Wise served as Deputy Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency from August 2014 until August 2016. Following 20 years of active duty in the Army where he served as an infantry and ...

Patrick Duddy is a senior advisor for global affairs at Duke University. During a long diplomatic career, he served in eight countries in Latin America and as the deputy assistant secretary of state ...

Mary Beth Long served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs -- the first woman confirmed by the Senate as assistant secretary of defense – and is the first woman to ...

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Just a few weeks ago, Pakistan, the host for fragile ceasefire talks aiming to end the war between the U.S. and Iran, was at ...