U.S. Policy
Officials with the U.S. Department of Defense, referred to by the Trump administration as the Department of War, and other federal agencies gathered Thursday at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story to show off the DoW’s progress on Golden Dome for America.
Golden Dome is President... Read More »
The U.S. Army’s proposed $253 billion fiscal year 2027 budget includes increases for operations, procurement, research and personnel.
The budget proposal includes a 28.7 percent discretionary increase in procurement funding. This includes a $3.1 billion request to modernize the Army’s... Read More »
The House Appropriations Committee unanimously approved legislation covering military construction and Veterans Affairs for the 2027 Fiscal Year, officials said Tuesday.
The legislation, The Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, includes $157 billion... Read More »
The U.S. Departments of State and Justice convened the fifth meeting of the Countering Transnational Terrorism Forum in Budapest, Hungary to take action to counter Iranian terrorism.
The meeting brought together 35 governments from the Americas, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Europe to... Read More »
The Small Business Innovation and Economic Security Act, which became law earlier this month, reauthorized the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs.
The SBIR and STTR programs award research and development grants to American small... Read More »
U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced the launch of Mobile Passport Control at four pedestrian border crossings in Washington state.
The MPC mobile app allows U.S. citizens, and others, to use their mobile devices to submit passport and travel information in advance, which will speed up... Read More »
Gen. Chance Saltzman, chief of Space Operations for U.S. Space Force, outlined his vision for the service’s next 15 years during the Space Foundation’s Space Symposium on April 15.
Saltzman introduced the “Future Operating Environment” and the “Objective Force” that will prepare the... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Controls (OFAC) sanctioned targets linked to alleged money laundering and cash smuggling by the Cartel del Noreste (CDN), officials said.
The CDN is one of Mexico’s most violent drug trafficking organizations, the office said, and... Read More »
A federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment on March 17 charging 52 gang members with intent to distribute, possession and distribution of controlled substances, and firearms violations. Forty defendants were charged with possession of firearms in furtherance of a... Read More »
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) on April 7 issued a public advisory warning of cyberthreats to American critical infrastructure sectors from Iran-affiliated threat actors.
The agency joined the National Security Agency (NSA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of... Read More »
Legislation to expand opportunities for the development of unmanned aerial systems between the United States and Taiwan has been introduced in the Senate.
The Blue Skies for Taiwan Act, introduced by U.S. Sens. John Curtis (R-UT), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Andy Kim (D-NJ) would... Read More »
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law on Monday that strengthens protections against the application of foreign and religious laws.
HB 1471 reinforces that Florida courts may not apply or enforce foreign or religious law, including Sharia law, that violates constitutional rights. It... Read More »
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) recently provided North Carolina more than $103 million for Tropical Storm Helene and Hurricane Florence recovery efforts. Funding was awarded to more than 50 public assistance projects that help repair and protect critical infrastructure.
Public... Read More »
Bipartisan legislation was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives that would fully fund the Department of Homeland Security for Fiscal Year 2026 while enacting targeted reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
U.S. Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) and Tom Suozzi (D-NY) introduced the... Read More »
Boeing and the U.S. Department of War (DOW) said on April 1 they reached a seven-year framework agreement to triple production of PAC-3 missile seekers, a move officials say will significantly expand air and missile defense capabilities for U.S. and allied forces worldwide.
The agreement, which... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Defense and Arizona-based Honeywell Aerospace, a diversified technology and manufacturing company, recently partnered to create a framework to increase production of critical components for the ammunitions stockpile.
Honeywell Aerospace will accelerate the delivery of... Read More »
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence recently announced that the year-long intelligence community-wide technology and cybersecurity modernization effort was beginning to fulfill its mission.
On March 26, director Tulsi Gabbard announced the effort, spearheaded by the ODNI, was... 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 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
