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U.S. Defence Industry Braced for Tech Shake-Up Under Trump
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American defence executives are braced for a Donald Trump return to the White House that could be more disruptive than his first term, when he showed a willingness to shake up...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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The Mysterious New Jersey Drone Drama Has Kickstarted a Long-Overdue Discussion
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A recent wave of mysterious drone sightings across the US has, to a certain extent, kick-started a long-overdue discussion on drone technology and airspace management....
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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High-Tech Radar Used in Ukraine-Russia War to Be Deployed to Crack Northeast Drone Mystery
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State-of-the-art drone-hunting technology being used on the battlefield in Ukraine could soon be deployed to crack the mystery behind a spate of unmanned flying objects purpor...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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‘I Don’t Buy It’: Americans Want Answers on Possible Drone Sightings
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A police officer looking off the coast of New Jersey late in the evening of 8 December witnessed a scene so striking that she called emergency services....
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Mysterious Drones Raise Oversight Questions. What Can Be Done?
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Last month, drones flying over two military installations on the East Coast prompted “thousands” of phone calls to report them, raising the latest in a series of questions tha...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Top Marine Says Combat Experience Gives U.S. the Edge Over China’s MilitaryWar is an inherently uncontrolled environment. Managing that chaos requires experienced leaders, from the small-unit level to the most senior ranks. Combat experience can reve...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Trump Turns to Outsider to Shake Up Navy, but His Lack of Military Experience Raises Concerns
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President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be secretary of the Navy, John Phelan, has not served in the military or had a civilian leadership role in the service. While officia...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Elon Musk Says Human-Piloted Fighter Jets like the F-35 Are Obsolete. Drone Tech Can’t Yet Fill the Gap.
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Drones are changing war in ways we never thought possible, but are we to the point where uncrewed systems can replace top-dollar weapons like the F-35 stealth fighter? Promine...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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In an F-35 Funding Fight, Musk Will Need to Win Over a Skeptical Congress and Trump
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Just weeks after President-elect Donald Trump tasked Elon Musk with cutting government spending, the SpaceX CEO criticized the Pentagon's most expensive weapons program: the F...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Pentagon to Disclose More Drones in Secretive China ProgramThe Pentagon, seeking to balance deterrence of China’s Pacific ambitions, industrial base concerns, and secrecy, plans to reveal as soon as this week more details about its “R...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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American Drone Startup Notches Rare Victory in Ukraine
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Above a battlefield littered with failed American drones, California startup Shield AI notched an important victory in Ukraine. The company in August became a rare Western sup...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Defense / Transatlantic Security
Why the Pentagon is Betting Big on Long-Range Ukrainian Drones: ‘It Works’“[The Ukrainians] have such a vibrant and diverse drone industry that’s doing really, really exciting things, and they’re doing them for really cheap,” Stacie Pettyjohn, direc...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Pentagon Lacks Counter-Drone Procedure Leading to Incursions Like at Langley, Experts Say
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New reporting about over a dozen unidentified drones that were allowed to fly over Langley Air Force Base has prompted fresh calls for change to a threat that experts say will...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Scatter and Survive: Inside a U.S. Military Shift to Deny China ‘Big, Juicy’ Targets
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The remote Pacific airfield used to launch the atomic bombings of Japan during World War II is being revived with a different foe in mind: China. Runways emerging from the enc...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Russia’s Illicit Starlink Terminals Help Power Its Advance in Ukraine
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Before Starlink revolutionized the market, previous generations of field satellite terminals suffered from low speeds and high prices. Now users can buy terminals for a few hu...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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China Is Menacing Taiwan with Drone Swarms and U.S. Is Playing Catch-Up
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"The military and commercial drone industrial base in both nations is quite weak," said Stacie Pettyjohn, an analyst at the Center for a New American Security, of Taiwan and t...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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U.S. Tackles a Military Vulnerability in the Pacific: Supply Lines
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America is rethinking its logistics in the vast region, with training involving giant fuel bladders in the Australian Outback...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Russia Will Be ‘At War’ with NATO If Ukraine Long-Range Missile Restrictions Lifted, Putin Warns
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A group of key House Republicans also wrote to the president this week ahead of Blinken’s Ukraine trip, echoing appeals from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to lift the...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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What the “Rocket Drone” Palianytsia Means for Ukraine
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I don't think this is a game-changing capability," Stacie Pettyjohn, the defense program director at the Center for a New American Security, told me. But if "Ukraine can acqui...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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The Pentagon Is Planning a Drone ‘Hellscape’ to Defend Taiwan
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“China has essentially copied all of the large and medium high-altitude drones the US has and produced what amount to cheaper versions of the MQ-9 Reaper or the [RQ-4] Global ...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
