Author: Michael

LONDON — Distributed Spectrum Inc., headquartered in New York City, was tapped to deliver advanced sensing to identify Indo-Pacific threats as the U.S.-based winner of the first-ever AUKUS Electronic Warfare Challenge, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced Thursday.
During the trilateral security partnership’s third ministerial meet-up unfolding in London this week, defense leadership from each of the participating nations unveiled the companies from their respective hubs who came out on top of this new innovation contest.

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Chris, Melanie, and Zack discuss Carter Malkasian’s recent article on “America’s crisis of deterrence.” They debate whether recent policy failures are a breakdown of deterrence theory or U.S. policy, and, if so, what to do about them. Chris advocates for the benefits of nuclear power, Melanie expresses excitement about French spies, and Zack commends semiconductor producers for delivering on the CHIPS Act. Episode Reading Carter Malkasian, “America’s Crisis of Deterrence: How to Adapt on Old Theory to New Realities,” Foreign Affairs, September 20, 2024.

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Like clockwork, the mainstream media and our broken medical establishment is once again breaking out their tried and true scare tactics regarding COVID and the upcoming seasonal flu season. According to USA Today,
As flu season nears, so do new COVID-19 variants.
A newly discovered COVID strain known as XEC continues to spread rapidly across multiple countries, including the U.S.
Scripps Research’s Outbreak.info page, last updated on Sept. 5, reported 95 XEC cases across 12 U.S. states and 15 different countries.

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LONDON — The AUKUS alliance is open to further expanding its Pillar 2 capability areas to encompass more emerging technology categories for strategic acceleration, two senior defense officials told DefenseScoop.
The news comes as defense leaders from the U.S., U.K., and Australia are gathering in London on Thursday to participate in the trilateral security partnership’s third official ministerial meetings, since its launch in 2021.

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