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We are compounding the defense industrial base vulnerability by awarding high school diplomas that overstate students’ readiness in math.
The government’s implementation timeline may be under review, but the cybersecurity obligations, contractual requirements and business pressures have not disappeared.
Justin Sanchez • July 5, 2026
Elevating AI and chips to national priorities is essential, but it’s also time to give biotechnology and biosecurity the same strategic focus. The U.S. should stop treating biosecurity as a low-visibility, high-impact endeavor and recommit to biotechnology as a launchpad for economic prosperity, with biosecurity as the guardrails that keep us accelerating in the right direction into the future.
An administration that seeks to rehabilitate Russia at this moment in time simply doesn’t understand core U.S. national security interests.
The United States and its allies should meet directly with the NCRI leadership and evaluate the third option.
The reality of 2026 and the array of current and evolving threats demand that our procurement cycles speed up dramatically.
Adversaries now consider commercial satellite communications infrastructure to be fair game during conflict.
The Iran conflict and targeted tariffs welcome in a new age of U.S. defensive readiness, reshoring defense production while simultaneously increasing productive scale.
The question the Pentagon is now asking isn’t just how accurate its GPS is, but what happens when troops can’t use it at all.
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