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Lockheed Martin announced it had won a contract with the U.S. Army to produce Increment 2 of its Precision Strike Missile.
The indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract worth up to $1.2 billion will cover the procurement and future orders for the PrSM Increment 2 missiles, as well as... Read More »
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agriculture specialists recently intercepted a plant pathogen not previously detected at a U.S. port of entry at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston.
CBP agriculture specialists inspect international passengers and cargo shipments and serve as... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate (DHS S&T) announced they were launching a series of challenges to technology companies to develop identity verification technologies.
The Remote Identity Validation Rally would challenge established technology... Read More »
The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Escanaba offloaded on Monday approximately 7,250 pounds of cocaine and 2,082 pounds of marijuana, worth an estimated $57 million, at Port Everglades.
Coast Guard Cutter Escanaba is a 270-foot medium endurance cutter homeported in Portsmouth, Va. It,... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Defense and defense technology company Lockheed Martin recently signed a framework agreement to expand production capacity of the AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile (JATM), next generation air-to-air missiles.
The agreement allows Lockheed Martin and the munitions... Read More »
New guidance from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) aims to help critical infrastructure owners and operators implement realistic decoy systems and information assets that can quickly detect and disrupt malicious activity occurring in their networks.
The ability to... Read More »
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 conditions in the U.S. and in Russia appear to be deteriorating, a trend NTI finds concerning as the two... 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 discussion, panelists examined how the escalating threat... 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 »
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 »
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 Master SP Autonomous... 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 »
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... 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 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... 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 »
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 is a plant that contains two... 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 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... Read More »
One year after President Donald Trump announced that the headquarters for U.S. Space Command would move from Colorado Springs, Colo., to Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., the organization has experienced rapid expansion in the region.
Trump announced the move on Sept. 2 2025. Since then,... Read More »
The U.S. Army recently awarded Virginia-based integrated defense technology company AeroVironment’s (AV) New Mexico facility with an other-transaction-agreement for the production of directed-energy weapons.
The contract, the Army’s first production for a high energy laser weapon system, is... Read More »
The FBI issued a public service announcement on Tuesday warning that malicious cyber actors have been targeting high-profile individuals, their relatives and acquaintances using a technique called OAuth consent phishing.
OAuth enables websites and web applications to request access to a user's... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Justice announced the seizure of more than $500,000 in cryptocurrency donations, as well as the internet infrastructure used to raise those donations, intended to fund terrorist activities by Hamas.
According to the DOJ, the seizure disrupted an ongoing scheme by Hamas... Read More »
A new interagency effort aims to crack down on fraud in the trucking industry to reduce highway fatalities. The effort includes the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice.
“Criminals who exploit our nation’s transportation systems... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Defense, referred to by the Trump administration as the U.S. Department of War, announced the signing of agreements with General Dynamic Ordnance and Tactical Systems, and Lockheed Martin for the procurement of missile subcomponents.
The seven-year contracts are designed... Read More »
The company operating an international shipping company has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from an oily waste discharge into the sea.
MSC Shipmanagement Limited, one of the largest shipping companies in the world, pleaded guilty in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to two counts of... Read More »
The Department of the Army’s Janus Program, in partnership with the Department of War Innovation Unit, recently selected five nuclear energy vendors, awarding up to a collective $2.2 billion to own, construct and operate nuclear microreactors on military installations.
The first five initial... Read More »
According to a report from the Government Accountability Office, the U.S. Navy’s backlog of submarine maintenance is costing taxpayers and affecting Navy readiness.
House Report 118-529 required the GAO to assess the readiness and availability of the Navy’s attack submarine fleet. In... Read More »
The U.S. Marine Corps recently released a strategic framework, outlining its plan to ensure ground forces remain prepared for immediate operational demands and are positioned to secure and maintain decisive combat superiority through 2040.
Ground Combat Element 2040 Fiscal Year 2026 includes... Read More »
A new advisory from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency outlines how organizations can strengthen detection, response and protections in information technology (IT), cloud and operational technology (OT) environments.
The advisory, A Tale of Two SOCs: Insights From Two Red Team... Read More »
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) recently announced a strategic plan to drive excellence and resiliency. The Horizon 25 Strategy focuses on three primary goals: modernizing TSA’s checkpoints, elevating the traveler experience, and strengthening multi-modal transportation... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Justice recently launched a prosecutor-led, multi-agency team designed to investigate those defrauding federal government programs, including individuals overseas and those operating fraud schemes.
The National Fraud Detection Center (NFDC) will be tasked with generating... Read More »
The Economic Defense Unit (EDU)ii88 of the U.S. Department of Defense, referred to by the Trump administration as the U.S. Department of War, announced it will invest $750 million with US SIIE, LLC to support an offtake agreement for mixed rare-earth carbonates produced in central Brazil.
The... Read More »
