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Bradley Peniston
Executive Editor, Defense One
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Bradley Peniston is executive editor of Defense One. A national security journalist for a quarter-century, he helped launch Military.com, served as managing editor of Defense News, and was editor of Armed Forces Journal.
His books include No Higher Honor: Saving the USS Samuel B. Roberts in the Persian Gulf (Naval Institute Press, 2006), which has been recommended by the Navy's Professional Reading Program and the U.S. Coast Guard's doctrine guide.
His books include No Higher Honor: Saving the USS Samuel B. Roberts in the Persian Gulf (Naval Institute Press, 2006), which has been recommended by the Navy's Professional Reading Program and the U.S. Coast Guard's doctrine guide.
Defense
Tuberville says he'll drop hold on most military promotions
Alabama senator says he will keep the brakes on some of the most senior officers’ nominations.
- By Bradley Peniston and Audrey Decker
People
Teleworking DOD civilians may be recalled to in-person work
Two years after the pandemic sent DOD into “maximum telework,” Thursday’s memo points the way toward a new new normal.
- By Bradley Peniston and Elizabeth Howe
Digital Government
Teleworking DOD Civilians May Be Recalled to In-Person Work
Two years after the pandemic sent DOD into “maximum telework,” Thursday’s memo points the way toward a new new normal.
- By Bradley Peniston and Elizabeth Howe
Digital Government
Trump Fires Esper, Taps NCTC Director to be Acting SecDef
Christopher Miller becomes Trump's fourth acting defense secretary just 72 days before Inauguration Day.
- By Marcus Weisgerber, Bradley Peniston and Katie Bo Williams
Digital Government
Trump Ousts Would-Be Acting Spy Chief
Deputy DNI Susan Gordon was statutorily required to be elevated after DNI Coats resigned in July.
- By Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Artificial Intelligence
Google’s Withdrawal from Pentagon AI Project Risks U.S. Lives, Says Work
Former deputy defense secretary says the tech giant should consider how its work might help save U.S. troops — and how it is currently helping China.
- By Bradley Peniston
Digital Government
Future Navy Accident Investigations Will Look for Cyber Attacks
The fleet’s info-warfare chief has a team aboard the damaged USS McCain. The main thing she expects to learn is how to do this kind of investigation.
- By Bradley Peniston and Joseph Marks
Artificial Intelligence
How Will The Pentagon Create Its AIs? The Algorithmic-Warfare Team Is Charting a Path
Over the next 36 months, an algorithmic-warfare team will draw up a model for splitting the work between government and industry.
- By Bradley Peniston
Digital Government
Pentagon Rolls Out New Office Devoted to ‘People Analytics’
A first tranche of reforms omits some highly anticipated fixes, but seeks to lay the groundwork for more.
- By Bradley Peniston
People
Saving it for the future
Agencies wrestle with 'full cost of digital preservation'
- By Bradley Peniston and Greg Langlois
People
Archivists tackle digital heritage
Forum tackles Library of Congress' $100 million blueprint for information preservation
- By Bradley Peniston
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