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fromwww.businessinsider.com
3 hours ago

Trump's Pentagon is looking to 'disruptive' defense newcomers to build large stockpiles of cheap missiles for future wars

The Pentagon said in a release that it hopes to procure more than 10,000 low-cost cruise missiles over three years beginning in 2027, via firm-fixed-price production contracts "creating a pathway for rapid and repeatable production of highvolume, lethal strike capabilities." The department plans to begin buying test missiles from all four LCCM companies in June 2026, ahead of military assessments.
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fromNextgov.com
1 day ago
Information security

The Pentagon's cyber rules leave MSPs as an attack vector

CMMC aims to secure defense supply chains, but MSP privileged access can become an exploitable attack vector if MSPs aren’t held to equivalent standards.
fromFast Company
1 month ago
EU data protection

The most important defense regulation you've never heard of

CMMC mandates new cybersecurity standards for the defense industrial base, impacting thousands of businesses and transforming the defense supply chain.
Information security
fromNextgov.com
1 day ago

The Pentagon's cyber rules leave MSPs as an attack vector

CMMC aims to secure defense supply chains, but MSP privileged access can become an exploitable attack vector if MSPs aren’t held to equivalent standards.
EU data protection
fromFast Company
1 month ago

The most important defense regulation you've never heard of

CMMC mandates new cybersecurity standards for the defense industrial base, impacting thousands of businesses and transforming the defense supply chain.
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fromTruthout
1 day ago

Hegseth Won't Say Whether Parents Should Forgo Childcare to Cover Defense Budget

A $1.5 trillion defense budget is defended as ensuring U.S. military superiority and restoring a wartime-ready defense industrial base.
Information security
fromThe Hacker News
2 months ago

Google Links China, Iran, Russia, North Korea to Coordinated Defense Sector Cyber Operations

State-sponsored and criminal actors from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia target the defense industrial base, prioritizing drones, hiring exploitation, edge-device access, and supply-chain risk.
Information security
fromSecurityWeek
2 months ago

Hacktivists, State Actors, Cybercriminals Target Global Defense Industry, Google Warns

Hacktivists, state-sponsored actors, and cybercriminals are intensifying attacks on the global defense industrial base using espionage, ransomware, and LLM-assisted techniques.
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fromAxios
4 months ago

Taiwan 2027: China's target date for potential takeover fast approaches

U.S. is rapidly strengthening military and industrial capacity and selling major arms to Taiwan while China conducts drills, raising regional conflict risk within a year.
US politics
fromThe Cipher Brief
4 months ago

A Blueprint for Next-Generation Defense Production

The U.S. defense industrial base is too narrow, fragile, and reliant on foreign supply chains, requiring private-sector-led resilient manufacturing nodes to surge wartime production.
World politics
fromFortune
4 months ago

Top AI defense CEO warns China could 'bleed American stockpiles dry' in the event of a conflict, claiming U.S. munitions could run out in a week | Fortune

U.S. munitions stockpiles and outsourced manufacturing risk rapid depletion in a prolonged conflict with China, potentially exhausting certain munitions within days.
US politics
fromAxios
5 months ago

Defense industry heaps praise on Hegseth's weapons-buying reformation

The Pentagon unveiled an Acquisition Transformation Strategy to modernize procurement, streamline decision-making, and accelerate defense innovation.
fromSouth China Morning Post
6 months ago

China can learn US lessons to unleash military power of civilian tech, researcher says

In an article last week, Gu Jianyi, a researcher at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, said China could consider developing a new industrial ecosystem inspired by successful US firms such as SpaceX, Palantir and Anduril. Such an ecosystem would be defined by Silicon Valley-style innovation, software-centric design, agile development and civil-military integration.
World politics
fromBusiness Insider
8 months ago

Pacific allies are ready to help fix US shipbuilding, senators say, but confusion is standing in the way

There's just genuine excitement and energy on the Korean side to move as fast as possible,
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fromBusiness Insider
8 months ago

Ukraine's weapons makers want to sell arms abroad and argue it will help, not hurt, the fight against Russia

Ukraine's defense industry seeks permission to export arms abroad to expand production, reduce costs, and use capacity that exceeds domestic demand.
fromNextgov.com
9 months ago

Small defense industrial base firms pose tempting targets for nation-state hackers, NSA official says

Bailey Bickley highlighted that most Defense Industrial Base providers, about 80%, are small businesses, which often operate in less than ideal IT environments.
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