Monday NatSec Roundup

If required, the USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT would embark all assigned Sailors, set sail, and be ready to fight and defeat and adversary that dares challenge the U.S. or our allies.  The virus would certainly have an impact, but in combat, we are willing to take certain risks that are not acceptable in peacetime.  However, we are not at war, and therefore cannot allow a single Sailor to perish as a result of this pandemic unnecessarily. 

• Cybersecurity and the defense industrial base, and in the procurement system more broadly…
• This is probably the closest that you personally will come to flying an F-22.
• Good long read on Crozier and CVN-71. It appears that the outbreak was centered around the reactor team, which would have made it very difficult for the ship to continue operating.
• A history of the Defense Production Act…
• Notes from the 1995 extension of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
• Interesting stuff on how H-E-B gamed out supply chains and distribution in preparation for the pandemic.