EXCLUSIVE: Walter Reed scientists expect to announce that they have developed a vaccine that protects people from COVID-19 and all its variants, even Omicron | @TaraCopp buff.ly/3srUICi

EXCLUSIVE: The U.S. Air Force quietly flew 500,000 COVID-19 testing kits from Italy to Memphis on Monday buff.ly/2TZpQaz | @MarcusReports

BREAKING: US Planning to Evacuate Afghan Interpreters, Top US General Says // Milley: “…for not just the interpreters but a lot of other people that have worked with the United States.” defenseone.com/policy/2021/0… @TaraCopp

BREAKING: Catholic Troops Can Refuse COVID Vaccine, Archbishop Declares | @ECBHowe buff.ly/3oXGo2S

Eleven American troops were wounded in Iran’s Jan. 8 missile attack on Iraq’s al-Asad air base, @DefenseBaron reports. buff.ly/2TtefAR

UPDATE: ISIS leader #Baghdadi is believed to have detonated his own suicide vest, multiple sources confirm to @DefenseOne. #Syria

"The Crew Made the Decision to Go:" Inside Reach 871, A US C-17 Packed With 640 Afghans Trying to Escape the Taliban | @TaraCopp and @MarcusReports buff.ly/3xYg75m

BREAKING: ISIS Leader Baghdadi Believed Dead After US Special Ops Raid - Defense One #Syria #Baghdadi defenseone.com/threats/2019/…

The Army Is Working on Augmented Reality Goggles for Military Dogs | @BrandiVincent_ buff.ly/3503DOb

Hong Kong Is Losing its Freedom buff.ly/2Z9FlQ7 | Commentary by @Doug_Bandow

EXCLUSIVE: US Preparing to Put Nuclear Bombers Back on 24-Hour Alert | @MarcusReports defenseone.com/threats/2017/…

The achievement is the result of almost two years of work on the virus. The Army lab received its first DNA sequencing of the COVID-19 virus in early 2020.

"Over the last decade, individuals and groups fueled by this virulent ideology have committed 71 percent of the known politically or religiously inspired killings in our country — that is, 274 of the 387 Americans murdered by extremists."

U.S. troops are volunteering to fly people seeking an abortion from states that have banned the procedure to states where they can receive care, arguing that they donned a uniform to fight for freedom—including “freedom of choice" | @jacqklimas buff.ly/3DPcZPu

US, UK Agree to ‘Further’ Restrict Huawei, Defense Secretary Says buff.ly/2VN9Eup

Inside Reach 871, A US C-17 Packed With 640 People Trying to Escape the Taliban | @TaraCopp and @MarcusReports buff.ly/3xYg75m

EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s Pledge to Exit Afghanistan Was a Ruse, His Final SecDef Says | @DefTechPat buff.ly/3sBzmjV

Russia’s requests to Interpol for Red Notices—the closest instrument to an international arrest warrant—against Kremlin opponents are being met with increasing deference by the Department of Homeland Security. | @NatashaBertrand buff.ly/2NVlmfm

EXCLUSIVE: Army to Begin Forcing Out Soldiers Who Refuse COVID Vaccine, Including Guardsmen | @TaraCopp buff.ly/30GA5Xy

Raytheon Calls in Retirees to Help Restart Stinger Missile Production | by @marcusreports buff.ly/4461jT4

Military-Funded Study Predicts When You’ll Protest on Twitter buff.ly/21p0kaf

Hong Kong Is Losing its Freedom buff.ly/2Z9FlQ7 | Commentary by @Doug_Bandow

U.S. Army Chief Denies Trump’s Claim That Generals Make War for Arms Makers | @KatieBoWill buff.ly/2FhBsRz

IN COMMENTARY: FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Affidavit Reveals How Trump May Have Compromised National Security buff.ly/3KAQpvC

EXCLUSIVE: Trump Wanted a Cheaper Air Force One. So USAF Is Buying a Bankrupt Russian Firm’s Undelivered 747s defenseone.com/business/2017…

So far, only House Democrats have chosen to hold themselves publicly accountable for how they plan to handle any stolen documents that come their way. | @NatashaBertrand buff.ly/2wYEQcf

JUST IN: US Has Evacuated 42,000 from Kabul; 16,000 in last 24 Hours Alone, Pentagon Says | @TaraCopp buff.ly/3sHnyNh

IN COMMENTARY: Putin’s War, and His Rule, Are In Trouble | @elisabethbraw buff.ly/3dBjb30

US, UK Agree to ‘Further’ Restrict Huawei, Defense Secretary Says buff.ly/2VN9Eup | @DefTechPat

Mattis is telling you that the president lacks respect for allies and a clear-eyed view of malign actors and strategic competitors, writes @davidfrum | buff.ly/2T9hOsH

BREAKING: Anthony Tata Tapped to Perform Duties of Defense Undersecretary for Policy | @MarcusReports @KatieBoWill buff.ly/3kfYlne

EXCLUSIVE: Army to Begin Forcing Out Soldiers Who Refuse COVID Vaccine, Including Guardsmen | From @TaraCopp buff.ly/30GA5Xy

How Putin Weaponized Wikileaks to Influence the Election of an American President defenseone.com/technology/20… by @DefTechPat #dncleaks

Alexander Vindman: Trump Is Putin’s ‘Useful Idiot’ buff.ly/2RuJyc8 | @JeffreyGoldberg

Donald Trump Has No Plan, writes @GrahamDavidA buff.ly/3dEOKTY via @TheAtlantic

BREAKING: Army Chooses Bell V-280 to Replace Its Black Hawk Helicopters defenseone.com/business/2022… via @DefenseOne

Ready for a new-look Air Force One? Lawmakers aren't. A House panel drafted legislation requiring congressional approval if President Trump wants to change the aircraft's Kennedy-era paint job. buff.ly/2WlG3d3

Everything That’s Wrong With That McMaster Op-Ed | @davidfrum defenseone.com/ideas/2017/05…

Confederate Military Base Names Just Met Their Gettysburg buff.ly/3b2mxXC

Biden admin will send aid to Ukraine through the end of term | More than $1B in remaining security assistance likely to be spent by end of 2024. by @meghannmyers_ buff.ly/49Fbq4J

“I think it’s going to be vitally important that Congress step into the void and become the champion of democracy and human rights,” says Rep. Adam Schiff. | @UriLF buff.ly/2JS4XHW

Acting DNI Shows Why Generals and Admirals Should Not Become Top Civilians buff.ly/2ncKAhc Commentary by @Sarah_Chayes

NEW in IDEAS: Ukraine Needs Help Surviving Airstrikes, Not Just Killing Tanks | Commentary by @massdara buff.ly/3fGZCDL

Mattis is telling you that the president lacks respect for allies and a clear-eyed view of malign actors and strategic competitors. | Commentary by @davidfrum buff.ly/2T9hOsH

Turkish Airstrikes Have Slowed the Fight Against ISIS, Officials Say defenseone.com/threats/2022/… via @DefenseOne

Commentary by @DefenseBaron: I’m Thankful for American Troops – All of Them | buff.ly/3VmoUtK

JUST IN: Putin’s DNC Hackers Actively Targeting French Elections - @DefenseOne @DefTechPat defenseone.com/technology/20…

Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin urged lawmakers to pass a full-year defense budget arguing investments in new, more modern weapons are needed to counter China and Russia. buff.ly/3us0Zxs

JUST IN: No US Military Dogs Were Left Behind in Afghanistan, DOD Says | @ECBHowe buff.ly/3kFJSmD

Trump Doesn’t Have the Authority to Attack North Korea Without Congress buff.ly/2eM8Cs8 by @Profepps via @TheAtlantic

The U.S. Navy may become like the Russian fleet if it focuses solely on the quantity of ships instead of on whether vessels are properly maintained, armed, and crewed by well-trained sailors, the top admiral said Monday | @MarcusReports buff.ly/3NLeaCc

ICYMI: No, We Cannot Shoot Down North Korea’s Missiles buff.ly/2wSoXSr by @Cirincione

The Boogaloo Bois Have Guns, Criminal Records and Military Training. Now They Want to Overthrow the Government. buff.ly/3anU127

America Is Acting Like a Failed State, writes @DKThomp, because the White House has failed to perform the most basic function of a state: to accurately assess a threat to the country. buff.ly/2vnHuvb via @TheAtlantic

Elon Musk is not the only defense-industry exec who showed up for the Space Force’s first change-of-command ceremony. But the SpaceX founder and controversial new owner of Twitter was the only one who got a by-name call out from the CJCS. buff.ly/3WqCPjP

Russia stole US agencies' emails from Microsoft systems, CISA says | The alert comes a week after DHS faulted the company for a security culture that enabled a similar China-backed cyberattack last year. buff.ly/4aTqoU0

Russian casualties have topped 600,000 in Ukraine war, US says buff.ly/3ZYK6M7

GOP lawmakers used to oppose Trump's embrace of Russia. But not anymore, writes @RonBrownstein buff.ly/2YlthZK

Senior White House Official: Wagner Mercenaries More ‘Aggressive’ Than Russian Military | The Wagner group is doing what the regular Russian military can’t. But it’s still losing. buff.ly/3QnhDbR by @DefTechPat

Why Would Biden Pick Susan Rice? His ticket doesn’t need another foreign-policy expert — nor another easy Obama-era target. buff.ly/2XxKIav | Commentary by @DefenseBaron

No Military Has Done More for Corona-Stricken Allies Than Germany’s | Commentary by @elisabethbraw buff.ly/2wOo17M

Considerable evidence shows that the Wikileaks dump was an orchestrated act by the Russian government.

Saudi Arabia must be held accountable for Jamal Khashoggi. | Commentary by Sen. @RandPaul buff.ly/2EgCUml

DARPA puts millions behind effort to power drones with ground-based lasers | Raytheon gets $10 million to develop energy “webs” that could keep drones in the air indefinitely. #darpa buff.ly/4atxXkP

Austin Urges Congress to Pass a Budget, Citing China Threat defenseone.com/policy/2022/1… via @DefenseOne

Today's D Brief: • Russia progressing slowly in E. Ukraine • Incendiary use spreading? • US mulls long-range rockets • Iran's new ship; And a bit more. defenseone.com/threats/2022/… (illustration via @TheStudyofWar)

NEW: US Air Force Flew a Half Million Coronavirus Test Kits From Italy to Tennessee | @marcusreports buff.ly/2x1WAXL

Companies that left Russia after 2022 invasion saw reputation boost, study shows buff.ly/3N1v7sT

No, We Cannot Shoot Down North Korea’s Missiles - @DefenseOne @Cirincione defenseone.com/ideas/2017/09…

A Minuteman III ICBM test launch scheduled for this week is now postponed, @PentagonPresSec says at the Pentagon just now, so there is no possibility of the U.S.'s intentions being misunderstood

NEW: The Biden administration will not lift the Trump administration’s ban on Turkey buying F-35 stealth fighters, which was a punishment for Ankara’s 2019 purchase of a Russian air-defense system, a senior Pentagon official said Friday. buff.ly/3aDY4aL | @MarcusReports

The Pentagon had already begun moving new aid toward Ukraine in anticipation of its release this morning by the U.S. president, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs said Wednesday. Read the story by @deftechpat: buff.ly/3JAcTx0

Biden Must Press Armenia to Hand Over Minefield Maps | Commentary by @ElinSuleymanov buff.ly/3sS3ZQQ

US will ‘continue to provide' ATACMS for Ukraine, National Security Advisor says | Months of work to build up stocks means the U.S. can give Ukraine more of the sought-after long-range weapon. buff.ly/3xTQok6

The plane China built to rival the United States’ B-21 stealth bomber doesn’t even come close to U.S. capability, a U.S. intel official said Monday. Read the story by @audrey_decker9: buff.ly/4daL0sT

“The women’s movement in northern Syria is more like a women’s earthquake. In this sliver of the Middle East a tectonic shift of politics & governance is underway in which women’s equality now sits at the center of everything that comes next.” @gaylelemmon defenseone.com/ideas/2018/02…

Until now, there was room for reasonable disagreement over impeachment as both a matter of politics and a matter of tactics. But not anymore, says @RadioFreeTom buff.ly/2maUL5y

10 U.S. Army installations are named for Confederate officers. It's time for that to change, writes @markondefense. buff.ly/2w9k6jl

Possible ties between Trump's Azerbaijani project and Iran's Revolutionary Guard, plus other updates to our tracker buff.ly/2hV50Y3

A U.S. senator is stalling the promotion of an Air Force colonel who urged his peers to talk about racism and its effects on the military. Read: buff.ly/47b54au

Stalin ignored his spies when their findings contradicted his assumptions. Now Trump is doing the same, writes @john_sipher | buff.ly/2MHwMSK

National Security Pros, It’s Time to Talk About Right-Wing Extremism buff.ly/2HVzAuj | Commentary by @peterwsinger

UK Defense Secretary: We Need a Stronger NATO Now More Than Ever buff.ly/2XtbAWa

Under SecDef Esper, senior defense officials and uniformed military commanders have begun to appear on right-wing talk shows. That’s not taking care to avoid partisan politics; that’s feeding them up to the lions in the Colosseum, writes @DefenseBaron buff.ly/2V6nshD

A Suspicious Death and Three Cyber Arrests Point to a New Twist in the US Election Hack buff.ly/2jVf2WM

A group of Ukrainian hackers says it has found ways to disrupt Russian military units’ navigation and is working on ways to disrupt artillery fire as well | @DefTechPat buff.ly/3uJgykb

NEW: Pentagon Will Shift to ‘Maximum Telework’ on Monday buff.ly/2QhjLnO #coronavirus | The Prognosis: Latest News on COVID-19 & National Security

Exclusive commentary by @tedlieu and @SenMarkey: New, More Usable Nukes for Trump? No. buff.ly/2Z37sNK

ULA has an ambitious plan to ‘reuse’ Vulcan rocket: keep it in space | The heavy-lift rocket’s upper stage might extend its service as a tug or defender. buff.ly/4d6ayaw by @audrey_decker9

A group of 20-somethings built a GPS-independent drone in 24 hours—and caught the eye of US special operations forces | Here’s what that says about the new class of defense industry disruptors. buff.ly/4fWs6aE by @deftechpat

Colombia will bring the total to 19 countries | @caitlinmkenney, @jacqklimas, @TaraCopp buff.ly/3hXTPLl

BREAKING: Petraeus Trashes Biden Decision to Quit Afghanistan | From @DefenseBaron buff.ly/3mQJJNR

The Air Force Is Rebuilding Its Pacific Plans Around the B-21 | via @DefTechPat buff.ly/40r12rA

BREAKING: Trump Officials Deliver Plan to Split Up Cyber Command, NSA - @DefenseOne ⁦@KatieBoWill⁩ defenseone.com/policy/2020/1…

Nationwide router reboot was related to a massive Russian attack still infecting global systems, warns NSA’s top hacker, writes @DefTechPat | buff.ly/2w6GUhB

White Supremacists Killed More Americans Last Year Than Any Other Domestic-Extremist Group buff.ly/2Dd66Wb | @JGreenblattADL via @TheAtlantic

Defense Trade Press Statement on Media Restrictions at the Pentagon For decades, the defense trade media has been a trusted source of news and insight about Defense Department programs, budgets, and strategy. Ethical, accurate, and timely reporting makes that possible. The public, industry, and indeed the department itself benefit from granting credentialed defense reporters access to unclassified areas in the Pentagon and from the trust engendered by that access. The Pentagon has been seeking to impose unprecedented restrictions on journalists’ ability to cover the military for several months. Having restricted where unescorted media may go in the Pentagon—such that even visiting the public affairs offices of the military services now requires an escort—department leaders are asking reporters to sign a document acknowledging a vague new policy that, on its face, appears to contravene the First Amendment. This policy threatens to punish reporters who ask legitimate questions in the course of their daily work and to impose material harm on our news organizations for factual reporting. Journalists from the undersigned defense trade publications will not sign this new policy. Our newsrooms will continue to cover topics of military, defense, and national security fairly and independently. Aviation Week Breaking Defense Defense Daily Defense One Defense News Inside Defense Military Times USNI News

“What we're learning from the war in Ukraine is big, slow things are big, slow targets, whether it's warships or tanks,” Raytheon Technologies CEO Greg Hayes said in an interview last week | @MarcusReports buff.ly/3IWPzIB

Mattis to Generals: Start Talking to the Press | @DefenseBaron defenseone.com/politics/2017…

So Much for Keeping the Military Out of Politics buff.ly/2V6nshD | Commentary by @DefenseBaron