Countermeasures
A man and a woman have been indicted after the discovery of a suspicious device outside MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., earlier this month.
Alen Zheng, 20, of Land O’Lakes, Fla., was charged with attempting to damage government property, possession of an unregistered destructive... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Defense announced it had reached an agreement with Lockheed Martin to accelerate production of Precision Strike Missiles to a faster pace that would put the defense industrial base on a wartime footing.
Calling for the building of an “Arsenal of Freedom,” the... Read More »
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) opened the application period for $1 billion in Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program funding. The application deadline to submit is July 23.
The program provides states, local governments, territories and tribal nations... Read More »
The U.S. Senate confirmed Markwayne Mullin to head up the U.S. Department of Homeland Security following the exit of former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.
Mullin, who previously served as both a U.S. senator and U.S. representative for Oklahoma, was approved in a partisan vote of 54-45 on Tuesday,... Read More »
Bicameral legislation would strip the citizenship of naturalized U.S. citizens who commit or support terrorism and remove them from the United States.
Under current law, it is difficult to strip citizenship once citizenship has been granted. The Expatriate Terrorists Act amends current law to... Read More »
On Monday, the Federal Communications Commission updated a list of foreign-made routers that post a threat to national security.
The list includes all consumer-grade routers that were determined by the White House-convened Executive Branch interagency body that “pose unacceptable risks to the... Read More »
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York has settled a 17-year forfeiture litigation that will result in the payment of approximately $318 million to hundreds of victims of Iranian state-sponsored terrorism.
The forfeiture action exposed an Iranian government-owned bank’s secret... Read More »
U.S. Rep. August Pfluger (R-TX) has requested the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to perform a comprehensive review of how foreign terrorists use emerging technologies against the United States.
In a letter to the GAO, Pfluger, the chair of the House Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and... Read More »
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently transitioned to the U.S. Army an autonomous flight system. DARPA transitioned an experimental, fly-by-wire H-60Mx Black Hawk, equipped with the DARPA-funded Sikorsky MATRIX autonomy suite to the Army’s Project Manager for Utility... Read More »
The U.S. House Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection held a hearing on March 17 to examine the national security risks stemming from artificial intelligence, robotics, and autonomous sensing technologies developed by companies affiliated with the People’s Republic of China... Read More »
Texas-based Bell Textron, an aerospace and defense company, recently completed the first AH-1Z and UH-1Y aircraft upgrades under the U.S. Marine Corps’ Structural and Power Improvements for NextGen Effects (SPINE) program.
The program is part of the H-1 program’s modernization plan to... Read More »
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is urging U.S. organizations to harden their endpoint management system configurations after a cyberattack on Stryker Corporation.
CISA said on March 11, Stryker was the victim of a cyberattack targeting their endpoint management system which... Read More »
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) recently awarded the 11 cities hosting FIFA World Cup 2026 matches $625 million to boost security preparations.
“The 2026 FIFA World Cup is expected to be the largest sporting event in history, so it must also be the most secure,” Karen Evans,... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Justice unsealed a civil case filed in 2024 on Friday that details the seizure of more than $14.9 million seized from an international drug money laundering scheme and alleges a complex pattern of trade-based drug-money laundering.
Trade-based money laundering is defined... Read More »
A new analysis of the U.S. space sector finds that the U.S. space industrial base has not kept pace with industry growth, and that the space supply chain is approaching an inflection point, risking national security, civil and commercial space programs.
The report, Strengthening America’s... Read More »
American law enforcement agencies joined those from the United Kingdom and Canada to conduct a joint international law enforcement initiative focusing on crypto assets.
The initiative, Operation Atlantic, worked to identify victims who may have lost, or are at risk of losing, crypto assets... Read More »
The Joint Task Force Southern Border (JTF-SB), which was created to safeguard U.S. territorial integrity, commemorated its one-year anniversary on Saturday.
"During this first year, Joint Task Force-Southern Border and partners have proven what a whole-of-government approach to our nation's... 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 area.
Between Feb. 4 and... 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 7,000 nautical miles, making ports of call in Apia, Samoa,... Read More »
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.
Developed by the Capabilities Program Executive Ammunition and Energetics (CPE A&E) in conjunction with... 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 »
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 the... 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 and Human Services to... 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 »
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.
The purpose of the exercise is to modernize the... 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 »
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... 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 at DataBricks, will serve as a key leader in... 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 »
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 (SOCs) strengthen their... Read More »
A federal jury convicted on March 6 Asif Merchant, a trained operative of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Iranian government’s global terrorist force, and was a murder-for-hire who attempted to commit an act of terrorism.
Merchant faces a sentence of life in... Read More »
The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Monro returned home to Alameda, Calif., after more than 119 days at sea on a multi-mission deployment where they seized nearly 10 tons of cocaine.
The Muro left California on Nov. 3, 2025 and traveled more than 26,000 miles into the Eastern Pacific.... 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 »
The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR), a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services division, recently launched a cybersecurity module within its Risk Identification and Site Criticality (RISC) 2.0 Toolkit.
RISC 2.0 is a free, web-based platform that health systems,... 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 »
