Officials with the U.S. Army announced the approval of a new hand grenade, the M111 Offensive Hand Grenade for Full Material Release, the first new lethal hand grenade in nearly six decades.... Read More »
A report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office has found that the U.S. Department of Defense should do more to ensure that its contractors meet cybersecurity certification requirements. The GAO said it had reviewed the DOD’s implementation of its Cybersecurity Maturity Model... Read More »
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said he wants a “ruthless, no-excuses review” of the assorted legal support functions and operations of the U.S. Department of Defense, referred to as the U.S. Department of War by the Trump administration. In a video on social media, Hegseth said... Read More »
Legislation introduced by U.S. Reps. Greg Landsman (D-OH) and August Pfluger (R-TX) would reimburse local law enforcement agencies $61 million per year for three years for any services, personnel and equipment required to support the Secret Service’s mission. The Secret Service-Local Law... Read More »
The Joint Interagency Task Force 401 announced it has published guidelines to counter drone technology and protect privacy. The “Counter-UAS Operations: Safeguarding Freedoms and Preserving Privacy” report provides a comprehensive guide to the sensor technologies used to detect and identify... Read More »
President Donald Trump issued an executive order on March 6 that would require his administration to address cybercrime, fraud and predatory schemes targeting Americans as a way to protect U.S. interests. “Cybercrime, fraud, and predatory schemes are draining American families of their life... Read More »
Five vice chiefs of staff for the armed services told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the country’s fighting forces are ready for combat. In a hearing in Washington, D.C., the vice chiefs testified on the readiness of the joint force. Representatives of the U.S. Army, Marine Corps,... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and its law enforcement partners recently seized the database of one of the world’s largest online forums for cybercriminals to buy and sell stolen data and cybercrime tools. Law enforcement agents and officers in 14 countries conducted synchronized actions... Read More »
Kevin Martinez, a Georgian man who allegedly operated under the direction of the Mexico-based La Nueva Familia Michoacana drug cartel, appeared in federal court on March 13 on charges alleging that he distributed significant quantities of fentanyl in the metro-Atlanta … Read More
U.S. Coast Guard officials said the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter William Hart has returned to Honolulu after its 48-day patrol in the Pacific Ocean. The William Hart left Coast Guard Base Honolulu in January and traveled more than … Read More
RTX’s Raytheon announced recently it had completed a 26,000-square-foot expansion of its Redstone Raytheon Missile Integration Facility near Huntsville, Ala. The $115 million investment will increase the facility’s integration and delivery capacity by more than 50 percent and will grow … Read More
Bipartisan legislation recently re-introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives would prepare the United States for future pandemics. The Saving Us from Pandemic Era Resistance by Building a Unified Global Strategy (SUPER BUGS) Act would direct the Department of Health … Read More
The U.S. Eighth Army, the ground component for U.S. Forces Korea and Combined Forces Command, is participating in Freedom Shield 26, a 10-day defensive exercise conducted by the United States and the Republic of Korea (ROK) that began on Monday. … Read More
Texas-based Bell Textron, an aerospace and defense company, recently completed the critical design review stage of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) SPeed and Runway INdependent Technologies (SPRINT) X-Plane program and received an X-Plane designation. The designation allows Bell … Read More
The U.S. Department of Defense, referred to by the Trump administration as the Department of War, announced Gavin Kliger would assume the position of the chief data officer for the department. Kliger, previously a senior member of the technical staff … Read More
Paris-based Qevlar AI, a computer and network security company, recently raised $30 million in funding for its autonomous AI SOC platform. The company will use the funding to turn alert investigations into security insights that will help security operations centers … Read More
