Your weekly national security and government news brief, with insights for founders, investors, and those invested in the future of defense and public safety. Here’s The Rundown… (Read time 2 minutes) US EFFORT TO ARM TAIWAN FACES NEW CHALLENGE: The conflict in Ukraine is exacerbating a nearly $19 billion backlog…

Your weekly national security and government news brief, with insights for founders, investors, and those invested in the future of defense and public safety. Here’s The Rundown… (Read time 2 minutes) NEW WHITE HOUSE STRATEGY FOR CISLUNAR RESEARCH: A new White House strategy for interagency research on cislunar space activities…

Your weekly national security and government news brief, with insights for founders, investors, and those invested in the future of defense and public safety. — Here’s The Rundown… (Read time 2 minutes) US INNOVATION NEEDED TO MEET 2050 CLIMATE GOALS: The White House has prioritized five areas to launch the Net-Zero Game Changers Initiative, which aims to support key areas where transformative progress can help the US reach its 2050 climate goal and support global…

Your weekly national security and government news brief, with insights for founders, investors, and those invested in the future of defense and public safety. Here’s The Rundown… (Read time 2 minutes) US NAVY PURSUING DRONE SWARM CAPABILITIES: Budget documents have revealed plans for the Navy’s Super Swarm project, which includes…

Your weekly national security and government news brief, with insights for founders, investors, and those invested in the future of defense and public safety. Here’s The Rundown… (Read time 2 minutes) AIR FORCE LAUNCHES AUTONOMY PRIME PROGRAM TO FIND NEW TECH: AFWERX, the Air Force office in charge of finding new and innovative technology, has set up a new program called Autonomy Prime to learn about the autonomous technologies companies have under development, and…

Your weekly national security and government news brief, with insights for founders, investors, and those invested in the future of defense and public safety. Here’s The Rundown… (Read time 2 minutes) HARNESSING VENTURE CAPITAL TO ADVANCE US STRATEGIC INTERESTS: America’s Frontier Fund, the nation’s first non-profit deep tech investment fund…

Dr. James T. Coates, Principal @ Decisive Point Future-proofing the finances of your biotech startup through a market downturn means more than just raising capital or rushing to close your round. I diligence dozens of life science companies each week whose technologies might help futureproof the world against the next…

The National Security Innovation Network Propel program enables commercial startups with emerging technologies to solve real-world problems for the Department of Defense Decisive Point and Newlab today announced the cohort of companies selected to participate in the NSIN Propel program. In partnership with the National Security Innovation Network (NSIN) and…

Russia’s missteps have altered the landscape of great power competition — In prior weeks we’ve seen the devastation and carnage that has largely been absent from modern warfare in this century. As we’ve followed the brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine, there have been several revelations about Putin’s forces that should elicit a degree of reflection from the American public. First, as…