The Pentagon’s leader for industrial policy says the acquisition regulation overhaul will create openings for artificial intelligence-enabled service models and drive a move away from traditional contracts.
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The internet is carried by around 500 fiber-optic undersea cables that are vulnerable to damage from natural disasters and man-made threats.
National actors, such as Russia, China, and the US, have the ability to attack the cables, which could cause massive disruptions to the global internet and weaken transportation grids.
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Rear Admiral Earl Everett Stone
United States Navy
1895 – 1989
China warned on Wednesday it would “crush” any foreign attempts to interfere over Taiwan, after Japan announced plans to deploy missiles on an island near democratically-governed Taiwan.
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The mutiny aboard a Soviet warship in November 1975 led to a chase across the Baltic Sea, involving everything the Soviets had available.
Naval mutinies have long captured the public imagination, but, for the most part, open rebellions on the high seas are consigned to the Age of Exploration, in centuries past. One notable exception occurred in the Soviet Navy 50 years ago this month and, based on available evidence, almost led to the use of nuclear weapons. The mutiny aboard the frigate Storozhevoy is all the more remarkable for the fact that the Kremlin attempted to cover up its existence, with details only emerging in public a decade after its bloody end.
Featured image: Navy Code books at the Command Display, Corry Station, Pensacola
How the Navy’s First Secret Code Laid the Foundation for Modern Information Warfare
When the U.S. Navy introduced its first standardized cryptographic system on 1 December 1887, the event passed quietly—just a set of printed books issued to ships and shore stations. Yet this unassuming “U.S. Navy Secret Code” marked a transformational milestone: the moment the Navy began treating secure communication as a core warfighting requirement. In an era when telegraphy made long-distance communication possible but dangerously exposed, the 1887 system provided the first serious defense against interception, espionage, and foreign intelligence gathering.
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