The Trump administration’s National Initiative for American Space Nuclear Power says the Pentagon and NASA will run ‘design competitions’ that are ‘parallel and mutually reinforcing’ to achieve space-based nuclear power.
Operations in Iran, midterm elections, and GOP intraparty politics could all complicate the defense budget's path to President Donald Trump's desk.
As federal borrowing caps tighten financing options for law students, one organization is stepping in to negotiate the terms they can't secure alone.
But with more grunting.
The Office of Space Commerce certification process would be voluntary for industry, due to the fact that congressional authorization would be required for the imposition of any new regulations.
'The record strongly suggests that the reasons given for designating Anthropic a supply chain risk were pretextual and that [the government’s] real motive was unlawful retaliation,' said Judge Rita Lin.
‘To counter these [Iran’s] asymmetric threats, Gulf states are compelled to accelerate military modernization, prioritizing advanced air defenses like Patriot and THAAD upgrades,’ said a retired Kuwaiti air force officer.
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'Anthropic’s got a strong case, stronger than it should … primarily because the President’s made ‘admissions against interest’' on social media, attorney Sean Timmons told Breaking Defense.
‘Obviously it takes … money to kill bad guys so we're going back to Congress and folks there to ensure that we're properly funded for what's been done, for what we may have to do in the future,’ said US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
This week on The Weekly Break Out, we talk Iran developments and the latest in the back-and-forth between Anthropic and the Pentagon.
CEO Dario Amodei said he would still sue to overturn the designation of Anthropic as a 'supply chain risk,' but he said the company was 'having productive conversations with the Department of War' — which Pentagon CTO Emil Michael promptly denied.
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Breaking Defense's Aaron Mehta is joined by Stacie Pettyjohn of the Center for a New American Security to discuss Sen. Tim Kaine's push for a war powers vote and how it might play out.
Anthropic had refused a Pentagon ultimatum to lift internal policies safeguarding against the use of its AI for lethal autonomous weapons or for mass domestic surveillance.
‘What we're not going to do is let any one company dictate a new set of policies above and beyond what Congress has passed,’ Under Secretary Emil Michael said of the ongoing impasse between the Pentagon and Anthropic.
America’s chief diplomat took aim at what he framed postwar ‘delusion’ in the West and a mass migration ‘crisis’ in Europe, echoing terms found in the National Security Strategy released last year.
US officials say they hope the talks spur greater transparency from China in particular about satellite operations.