Tag Archives: China

The Senate voted 84-10 Wednesday to confirm Avril Haines, former deputy director at the CIA, as the new director of national intelligence, The Wall Street Journal reported. She has become the first female DNI and will oversee 18 intelligence agencies, including the CIA and the National Security Agency.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that would require government agencies to review security risks associated with unmanned aircraft systems from foreign adversaries and remove from the federal fleet such drones.

The Department of Homeland Security has created a strategy outlining its measures to address threats Chinese activity poses to the U.S.' immigration, critical infrastructure and cybersecurity, trade and maritime defense operations. DHS said Wednesday its Strategic Action Plan applies input from the department's China Working Group and the department intends to continue its partnership with key stakeholders to confront national security challenges.

The Senate moved to pass the $740.5B National Defense Authorization Act into law via an 81-13 vote Friday that overruled President Donald Trump’s veto of the NDAA, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The Department of Commerce has named 103 Russian and Chinese companies to the new military end user list to inform exporters that a license will be required to export, transfer or reexport designated products to listed entities.

Nasdaq will move to pull out shares of four Chinese companies from the stock exchange's indexes on Dec. 21 to comply with the White House's security investment executive order, Reuters reported Saturday.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence said in a statement Thursday it has shifted resources in its fiscal year 2021 budget to increase intelligence spending on China by nearly 20 percent to help address concerns over economic, counterintelligence and national security threat posed by the East Asian country, The Wall Street Journal reported.

During Potomac Officers Club’s Artificial Intelligence for Maneuver Virtual Event, Michèle Flournoy, co-founder and managing partner of WestExec Advisors, was featured in a fireside chat with Greg Wenzel, 2020 Wash100 Award recipient and executive vice president with Booz Allen Hamilton. Wenzel moderated the fireside chat by posing questions on the future of defense as technology evolves. 

Jerry McGinn, executive director of the Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University’s School of Business and GovCon Expert for Executive Mosaic, recently shared his thoughts on the upcoming presidential election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump following the final debate last week and addressed the impact the election could have on the government contracting (GovCon) sector. 

James Taiclet, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), said the company saw earnings growth in the space segment and attributed the increase to hypersonic weapons programs, Defense News reported Tuesday.