Wednesday, August 19

The Department of Defense (DOD) has launched a new research program to develop treatments for traumatic brain injuries (TBI). A new program called Selective Harnessing of Intrinsic Neuroplasticity Engineering (SHINE) is pushing through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the research arm of the DOD, developing non-invasive tools to…

The results are finally in from Florida’s annual Python Challenge, and one hunter put together a performance unlike anything the competition has seen before. Held July 10-19, the 10 day event drew more than 900 participants from across the U.S. and beyond, all with the same goal: remove as many…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: The West domination, and more specifically, the Frontier West domination of movie and television storytelling for most of the twentieth century is one of the truly remarkable features of American film history. That domination began well over a century ago. One of the very first commercial motion…

A veterans group has received a building after a retired couple donated it to them, in a measure which will help the non-profit fulfill its functions. Retired dentist Karl Kerstein and his wife, Lynda, the former office manager at his dental surgery, donated their former dental office to the Combined…

The Marine Corps has awarded a $19 million contract for 10 Tempest counter-drone vehicles that are deliberately built to shoot and then leave. The system fires AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire missiles at Class 2 and Class 3 drones, then withdraws while the missiles are still in flight so the crew spends…

Confusion around Department of Veterans Affairs footwear benefits is common, and understandably so, since there isn’t just one program. Two separate benefits actually get lumped together in conversation, plus a broader clinical service coordinates both. Here’s how the system works. Any VA-enrolled veteran whose VA clinician determines therapeutic footwear is…

I built the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification because self-attestation was failing our war industrial base. Contractors could simply promise they were following basic cybersecurity practices, with no verification behind that promise. Our adversaries noticed that gap long before Washington did—and they have not eased up since. If anything, the opposite is…

More than 20 years before Gene Roddenberry sent the USS Enterprise across the galaxy, he was trying to keep a B-17 from running off an island runway in the South Pacific. On Aug. 2, 1943, Roddenberry was piloting Yankee Doodle during a takeoff from Espiritu Santo when the bomber failed…

A top U.S. admiral has acknowledged there have been mental health issues aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln amid reports of deteriorating conditions aboard the vessel. U.S. Central Commander Adm. Brad Cooper said on X on Sunday that while he believed the boat had “among the lowest number of cases related…

Three years after a homeless man was shot three times while breaking into a Portland, Ore., granite shop, he is suing the business owner—an Army veteran—for $10 million. Kenneth Voyles, 43, broke into James Grant’s countertop shop before dawn on March 6, 2023, and was shot during the confrontation that…

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