U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Nov. 20 denied unanimous consent to pass legislation that would repeal a controversial provision of the government funding law enacted on Nov. 12, which allows U.S. senators to potentially collect millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded legal damages. The provision in question was inserted by the Senate into the Continuing

The Pentagon on Nov. 17 announced that it would designate six “Critical Technology Areas (CTAs)” to focus government funding for research and innovation in military technology. The six areas are as follows: Applied Artificial Intelligence (AAI), Biomanufacturing (BIO), Contested Logistics Technologies (LOG), Quantum and Battlefield Information Dominance (Q-BID), Scaled Directed Energy (SCADE), and Scaled Hypersonics