According to The Gallup Poll, the American opinion about the United Nations has gone down, actually “among the worst ever measured.” Historical data from 1953 show that about half the country thought the UN did a poor job; today about two-thirds of Americans share that verdict. Another interesting tidbit: a majority of Republicans and Democrats agree.
The Defense Innovation Unit is gearing up for the first flight of its commercially developed hypersonic testbed as soon as the end of February—part of a larger project to quickly increase the cadence of the Pentagon’s hypersonic flight testing and field advanced, high-speed systems and components at scale.



