PENTAGON — President Donald Trump’s nominee for deputy secretary of defense is warning that China’s military is resolute on surpassing the United States and is calling for a fix to “significant” military shortages at a time when administration leaders are trying to make big budget cuts. “China is incredibly determined, they feel a great sense…
By Brad Brooks and Idrees Ali (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday renamed the Army base Fort Liberty back to its original name of Fort Bragg, according to a Department of Defense statement, undoing a 2023 name change driven by racial justice protests. The base, among the world’s largest military installations, had…
Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc. has been removed from the US Department of Defense’s list of Chinese military companies, doing away with what the firm describedBloomberg Terminal as an “irrational” designation. The producer of chipmaking equipment was placed on the Pentagon’s blacklist, which doesn’t carry specific sanctions but tends to discourage US firms from trading with…
Insider Brief U.S. Senators Maggie Hassan and Marsha Blackburn are pressing the Pentagon for answers on its quantum sensing efforts, citing concerns over China’s advances in the field, as reported by Defense One. Quantum sensing, which could enable jam-resistant navigation and positioning systems, is closer to real-world application than quantum computing, and China currently leads…