Author Archives: Rebecca Grant
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How the Quiet Signing of New White House Exec Order Impacts AI Frontier Models
June 5, 2026- Rebecca Grant Keep the AI Lead, Says Bessent By Rebecca Grant. President Donald J. Trump inked the new AI Executive Order on June 2. The EO recognizes that advanced AI can exploit cyber vulnerabilities and energizes the government, but leaves industry unshackled [Read More...] -
America Holds The Advantage As Trump Meets Xi (From FOX News)
May 14, 2026- Rebecca Grant Military positioning in the Strait of Hormuz and lower trade deficit give Trump new leverage President Donald Trump arrives in Beijing with a strong hand to play in talks with China’s President Xi Jinping. It’s all due to his military [Read More...] -
Secretary of State Marco Rubio “Outstanding” at Munich (From FOX News)
February 17, 2026- Rebecca Grant Secretary of State Marco Rubio garnered a standing ovation from the audience at the Munich Security Conference, after calling for a reinvigorated Western alliance. On Monday, Rubio’s success and its foreign policy implications featured across the news cycle, here, with [Read More...] -
CVN 79 on Sea Trials and China’s Carrier Strategy
February 7, 2026- Rebecca Grant New Aircraft Carrier John F. Kennedy CVN-79 on Sea Trials and China’s Carrier Strategy (From CBS Radio “Eye on the World”) Chinese Navy yards “are turning out craft at an enormously accelerated rate,” pointed out John Batchelor, host with Gordon [Read More...] -
Win The War At Sea By Strengthening Maintenance Ashore
October 28, 2025- Rebecca Grant The U.S. Navy patrols worldwide, with warships supported by an extensive network of logistics at sea and ashore. Yet the complexities posed in the Pacific theater demand rethinking not just power projection and sea control, but also how best to [Read More...] -
USS Gerald R. Ford’s Mission to South America (From Bloomberg News)
October 25, 2025- Rebecca Grant President Donald J. Trump has called on aircraft carriers again. This time, the mission is to counter the narco-terrorists backed by Venezuelan gangs. On Friday, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced the aircraft carrier CVN 78, USS Gerald R. Ford, [Read More...] -
How Tomahawks Work and How They Could Change Everything (From FOX News)
October 18, 2025- Rebecca Grant Read here and below. Tomahawks for Ukraine Tomahawks, Tomahawks, Tomahawks. That’s the word buzzing in the ears of Russian President Vladimir Putin, as U.S. President Donald J. Trump weighs providing America’s precision strike missile of choice to Ukraine. Since [Read More...] -
Army MV-75 Has A “Digital Backbone” To Stand Up To China In The Pacific (From National Security Journal)
October 14, 2025- Rebecca Grant The full text of this article is available below and on the National Security Journal website here. Key Points and Summary – The U.S. Army is accelerating its new MV-75 tiltrotor program, a long-range assault aircraft that is “twice as far, [Read More...] -
Trump’s Aircraft Carrier Visit Sends China A Message: US Sea Power Still Rules The Waves (From FOX News)
October 9, 2025- Rebecca Grant The full text of this article is available below and on the FOX News website here. The sight of President Donald Trump on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush was a great reminder [Read More...] -
Aerospace Mid-Tiers Ready For Primetime To Expand The Industrial Base (From RealClearDefense)
September 26, 2025- Rebecca Grant A small group of mid-tier defense firms is delivering on major aerospace programs. Read here and below. The Pentagon wants its mid-tier aerospace companies back. Once upon a time, during the Reagan buildup of the 1980s, there were 51 major [Read More...]