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-6 posts tagged "National Security"
Emma Duffy | Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Brendan Carr, a commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), said the social media app TikTok should be banned in the U.S. The Council on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) has spent months negotiating with TikTok to determine if it can be divested by its Chinese parent company ByteDance creating bleak outlooks and the
Isa Sheikh | Monday, September 19, 2022
On Friday, director of national intelligence (DNI) Avril Haines appeared at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center to discuss her career, the role of the intelligence community and global threats to the United States. Haines appeared alongside Amy McAuliffe ‘90, assistant director of the CIA’s Weapons and Counterproliferation Mission Center, in a discussion titled “The U.S.
Gabrielle Beechert | Tuesday, February 15, 2022
In the third installment of this year’s “Ten Years Hence” lecture series themed “Life Beyond Earth,” Lt. Gen. William J. Liquori discussed the creation of Space Force and its plans for dealing with international space threats. Liquori spoke with Notre Dame professor James O’Rourke via Zoom webinar Friday morning. Liquori is the USSF deputy chief
Andrew Sveda | Monday, September 23, 2019
A Harvard and MIT researcher calls it a “massive vulnerability” that still has “virtually no policy or oversight agency” to defend it. A member of the House Armed Services Committee says it’s an asset “we are almost as dependent on … as … the sun itself” but has “no castle to protect” it. If attacked,
Eddie Damstra | Wednesday, September 28, 2016
A couple of weeks ago, Oliver Stone’s new film “Snowden” was released in theaters throughout the United States. I have not had the opportunity to see the film yet, but I hope it can revive necessary discussion about government surveillance and the sanctity of personal liberty. After all, as November approaches and I evaluate each of
Jack Rooney | Sunday, September 7, 2014
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the nation’s highest ranking military officer, came to Notre Dame on Saturday to deliver the Jack Kelly and Gail Weiss Lecture in National Security and address America’s most crucial national security issues. Dempsey spoke to a standing-room-only crowd in the Carey Auditorium of the