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Global Defense Market
January 2023
JUST IN: How Russia Is Using U.S. Electronics to Attack Ukraine
U.S. sanctions and export controls are intended to prevent Russia from obtaining semiconductors and other sensitive electronics components, yet dozens of weapons systems Russia has deployed against Ukraine are loaded with — and can’t function without — U.S. and western electronics, according to a U.K. think tank. -
Shipbuilding
January 2023
ANALYSIS: Shipyard Capacity, China’s Naval Buildup Worries U.S. Military Leaders
By Meredith RoatenWhile U.S. military leaders exchange fire over what the next-generation of naval fleets will look like, the shipbuilding industrial base is treading water. -
International
January 2023
JUST IN: Senior U.S. Official Warns of ‘Competition’ with China, Russia in Latin America
Some of the Defense Department’s most pressing adversaries are growing their presence right in the United States' own backyard, Gen. Laura Richardson, commander of U.S. Southern Command, said Jan. 19. -
Contracting
December 2022
FCC Expands Ban on Chinese Telecom Devices
By Trevor Bernardo , Yaron Dori and Joceyln JeziernyWith congressional backing, the FCC now has established itself as a potent vehicle for excluding products from the U.S. market on national security concerns. -
International
December 2022
Ukraine’s Valiant Fight Inspires At this Year’s Halifax Forum
The Halifax International Security Forum — held the third weekend of November on the shores of the Atlantic in one of Canada’s maritime provinces — is a conference for democracy’s true believers. -
International
December 2022
How U.S. Can Compete With China in Latin America
By R. Evan EllisLatin America’s latest “turn to the left” is both broader than the region’s last “pink tide,” and arguably more problematic for the United States in strategic terms, with increased challenges to U.S. security, migration, and economic cooperation with the region’s partners, decreased leverage to pursue its policy objectives in bilateral and multilateral forums, and possibly greater opportunities for the People’s Republic of China to expand its presence in the region. -
Industrial Base
December 2022
Balance Needed for High Skills Immigration Reform
By Ben AckermanThe U.S. defense industrial base faces a critical science, technology, engineering and math talent shortage, exacerbated by an outdated immigration system. -
CBRN
December 2022
Postures, Policy For Low-Yield, Disruptive Weapons
By James Giordano and Bob WilliamsDiscriminate use of even the lowest yield chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear weapons would be highly disruptive beyond the battlefield and would loosen norms and weaken U.S. leadership of the international order. -
Global Defense Market
December 2022
U.S. Officials Give Advice on Doing Business in Middle East
It was a tale of two nations at the SOFEX trade show in Jordan in November. -
Global Defense Market
December 2022
New X-Ray Machines to Make Job Easier For Bomb Techs
Among the several new defense and security products Australian companies featured at the recent SOFEX exhibition in Jordan were next-generation x-ray machines that promise to make life easier for explosive ordnance disposal personnel.
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