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Makani Innovation Cell · Watch Feeds

Methodology & Sources

Where the watch feeds get their news, and how items are captured, tagged and curated before they reach a dashboard or report. A source counted twice here is read by more than one feed.

Active sources
167
across four feeds
Official releases
51
tier 1 government and military sources
Paused
33
listed with the reason
Registry check
02 Oct 2026
built 20:44 HST

How it works

  1. Capture

    Scheduled jobs read each active source's public RSS or Atom feed, or its structured data service (for example the CISA KEV catalog, NVD, Launch Library 2, Space-Track and NOAA space weather). Space Watch, TJFSCC Daily and Cyber Watch refresh three times a day. AI Trends refreshes once, before dawn HST. Duplicates are removed by canonical URL.

  2. Tag

    A rule-based tagger matches each item against a keyword taxonomy (whole words, with headline hits weighted higher). It assigns the item's section: the P and dimension for TJFSCC Daily, the mission area for Space Watch, the lane for Cyber Watch. It also adds joint function, COCOM, country and topic tags. Items below a source's score threshold are dropped. The dashboards show the tag names; the definitions behind them stay internal.

  3. Curate

    Once a day an AI model (Claude, from Anthropic) reviews each feed's tagged candidates. It confirms or corrects the tags, picks the items that matter, and writes the bottom line up front and the watch list, working only from captured items. AI Trends is curated this way directly from full-text newsletters.

  4. Publish

    Dashboards rebuild after every capture run. TJFSCC Daily also publishes a two-page daily report (HTML, PDF and Word). Space Watch, Cyber Watch and AI Trends publish a weekly report.

Source standards

  • Reputable sources only, in three tiers: official releases, established press and data services, and think tanks. Think tanks are capped per issue.
  • Every item links to the original article, and the brief cites its sources. Captured article text is never republished.
  • National and regional news wires must hit a real security topic, not just a country name, and are capped per day.
  • Only public feeds and data services are read. A source that can't be read reliably is paused and listed below with the reason and, where one exists, what covers the gap.

What stays internal

  • Taxonomy definitions, keyword cues and scoring thresholds.
  • Curation prompts and the capture code.
  • The captured article store.

This page is generated from the same source registries the capture jobs read, and it rebuilds whenever one of them changes.

TJFSCC Daily64 active · 11 paused · Open dashboard

Daily open-source news watch organized by the three P's: Posture, Presence and Partnership. Each item carries one P and one dimension within it, plus joint function, COCOM and country tags. Region is where the outlet is from, not what it covers, so the dashboard can check source balance.

By outlet region US 39 · FVEY 13 · Indo-Pacific 8 · Global 4

Tier 1 · Official releases 13

Tier 2 · Established press, research and data services 49

Tier 3 · Think tanks and academic 2

Paused 11

  • AP News (World)No usable feedAP publishes no first-party feed, and we do not read through third-party re-publishers.
  • Australian Department of DefenceSite blocks automated readersABC Australia and ASPI cover the gap.
  • Brookings InstitutionNo usable feed
  • CBC News (World)Site blocks automated readersCanada is covered by Department of National Defence releases.
  • CSIS Aerospace Security ProjectStopped publishingThe project site stopped publishing in April 2026.
  • Japan Ministry of Defense (English)Site blocks automated readersThe Japan Times, Nikkei and Yonhap cover the gap.
  • Ottawa Citizen — Defence WatchNo usable feedThe section feed returns general local news rather than defence coverage.
  • RAND CorporationNo usable feedRAND's topic feeds exist but are empty; checked periodically.
  • Reuters (World)No usable feedReuters retired its public feeds. NPR World and the BBC are the wire baseline.
  • Secure World FoundationNo usable feedIts reports still arrive through press coverage.
  • U.S. Space CommandNo usable feedOfficial releases arrive through the DVIDS feed; press coverage fills in the rest.

Space Watch35 active · 8 paused · Open dashboard

Space enterprise news sorted into the USSF mission areas, alongside structured data services for launches, space weather, conjunctions and reentries.

By outlet region US 32 · Europe 2 · Indo-Pacific 1

Tier 1 · Official releases 17

Tier 2 · Established press, research and data services 16

Tier 3 · Think tanks and academic 2

Paused 8

  • Aerospace Corp — Center for Space Policy and StrategySite blocks automated readers
  • CSIS Aerospace Security ProjectStopped publishingThe project site stopped publishing in April 2026.
  • GPS WorldSite blocks automated readers
  • Inside GNSSPaused
  • Secure World FoundationNo usable feedIts Global Counterspace Capabilities report arrives through press coverage.
  • Space Training and Readiness CommandNo usable feed
  • The Space ReviewNo usable feed
  • USSF Combat Forces Command (formerly SpOC)No usable feedThe command's new site publishes no feed yet.

Cyber Watch56 active · 11 paused · Open dashboard

Cyber threat reporting sorted by who needs to act on it, plus the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, critical CVEs from NVD and ransomware leak-site tracking. TJFSCC Daily's cyber items are routed here as well.

By outlet region US 45 · UK 3 · JP 2 · CA 1 · INTL 1 · AU 1 · EU 1 · IL 1 · KR 1

Tier 1 · Official releases 21

Tier 2 · Established press, research and data services 35

Paused 11

  • ASD ACSC advisoriesSite blocks automated readersASD content still arrives through joint CISA and Five Eyes advisories.
  • ASPI — The Strategist (cyber)Covered elsewhereCaptured by TJFSCC Daily and routed here.
  • Australian Signals Directorate — ACSC alertsSite blocks automated readersASD content still arrives through joint CISA and Five Eyes advisories.
  • CSIS Strategic TechnologiesOff by defaultTier 3 think tanks are off by default in Cyber Watch.
  • Cyber Security Agency of SingaporeNo usable feed
  • Google Threat Intelligence (Mandiant)No usable feedIts research reaches the feed through press coverage and the Google Security Blog.
  • Kaspersky SecurelistHeld back by policyRussian-headquartered vendor; off by default.
  • Lawfare (cyber)Off by defaultTier 3 think tanks are off by default in Cyber Watch.
  • NCSC New ZealandNo usable feed
  • The DiplomatCovered elsewhereCaptured by TJFSCC Daily and routed here.
  • TWCERT/CCNo usable feed

AI Trends12 active · 3 paused · Open dashboard

AI newsletters, trade press and one podcast, read in full text and curated into a daily note and a weekly report, with a watch on defense, cyber, space and Indo-Pacific developments.

Newsletters 10

News 1

Podcasts 1

Paused 3

  • AI Daily BriefRetiredReplaced by the podcast transcripts, which cover every edition.
  • Breaking DefenseCovered elsewhereOverlaps DefenseScoop.
  • Don't Worry About the VaseOff for volumeVery long posts.
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