The United States and Russia seem to be backing away from nuclear security, the Nuclear Threat Initiative found in a new report. The 2026 NTI Nuclear Security Index said nuclear security... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Defense, referred to by the Trump administration as the U.S. Department of War, announced that the U.S. Navy had awarded Boeing Company the first production contract for the MQ-25A Stingray. The $562 million fixed-price incentive contract will allow for initial production... Read More »
The Department of Defense’s Office of the Assistant Secretary of War for Industrial Base Policy, in partnership with the Economic Defense Unit, have invested a $450 million redeemable preferred equity investment in the Elmet Group through the Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment program.... Read More »
A group of U.S. senators is expressing their concerns over the U.S. Departments of the Interior’s and Agriculture’s ability to respond to the 2026 fire season. U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO), a senior member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, joined U.S.... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Defense, referred to by the Trump administration as the U.S. Department of War, announced the first advanced nuclear Micro Modular Reactor (MMR) at a Naval Weapons Station would happen in Indiana no later than September 2028. The planned installation of the MMR at NWS... Read More »
The U.S. Government Accountability Office is recommending the U.S. Department of Homeland Security implement options for chemical facilities to vet their staff for terrorist ties. According to a report from the GAO published Sept. 8, DHS previously had a program that allowed U.S. facilities... Read More »
A test flight that allowed an aircraft to navigate stretches of the ocean without relying on the same GPS civilians use to move through traffic is the latest advance in aviation, officials said. The Defense Innovation Unit announced it had successfully tested MagNav, the unit’s magnetic... Read More »
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the Group of Seven (G7) Cyber Security Working Group are urging organizations and governments to begin transitioning to post-quantum cryptography to protect data, systems and assets from quantum computing threats. The G7 Cyber Security... Read More »
The consensus at the 2026 AFA Air, Space and Cyber Conference was that the U.S. Space Force must double in size over the next five years as it scales operational capacity to protect from space-enabled attack. During an open panel … Read More
The LGM-35A Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile program recently completed the vertical stacking of the inert missile at Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., the U.S. Air Force announced. The milestone demonstrates the missile’s design maturity and verified that all critical subsystems … Read More
American Rheinmetall announced it had won a $7.28 million contract to support the U.S. Marine Corps with autonomous unmanned ground vehicles. The contract, executed through the Defense Logistics Agency with ADS, Inc., will cover the manufacturing and delivery of Mission … Read More
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro announced two actions the Department of Justice’s Scam Center Strike Force recently conducted regarding Southeast Asian cryptocurrency-related fraud and scams. Daily, approximately $52 million in cryptocurrency is involved in scam money laundering. Recent actions bring … Read More
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is seeking innovative artificial intelligence approaches to help identify biological threats in complex environmental data. The Ready, Set…ID the Biothreat, an AI-Assisted Algorithmic Biodetection Prize Challenge invites academics, … Read More
Washington, D.C.,-based Covenant, a defense company, recently introduced a heavy-payload, long-range weapon system designed for production in the thousands. The system, Anthem, is less expensive compared to legacy systems and was built as an end-to-end deepstrike solution that can be … Read More
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have seized more than 4,000 pounds of khat at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport since the beginning of the year. The khat, which will be destroyed, has an estimated street value of approximately $500,000. Khat … Read More
The Department of Defense recently launched a network expanding the defense industrial base. The Secure Space Network will expand access to classified work by designing, producing and deploying nationwide approximately 50 mobile Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities and related information systems. … Read More
