A U.S. senator wants a Raytheon executive who was nominated to serve as a top Air Force space acquisition official to commit to impartial and ethical business dealings if confirmed to the post, according to a new letter reviewed by Defense One. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is seeking an ethics pledge…
The Department of Veterans Affairs will spend $4.8 billion in the 2026 fiscal year to modernize, repair and upgrade health care facilities across the country, the largest single-year infrastructure investment in the agency’s history, according to an announcement earlier in the year. The funding flows through the Veterans Health Administration’s…
Everyone has good days, and bad days. On your bad days, did anyone try to boot you from your job and suggest you take advice from a fugitive? That’s what current Nissan CEO Ivan Espinosa faced today during the company’s 127th shareholders meeting, held at Nissan’s headquarters in Yokohama, Japan.…
TOKYO (AP) — The head of the U.N.’s nuclear agency signaled Wednesday that Iranian nuclear enrichment sites would be visited by his inspectors, a key component in the interim U.S.-Iran deal to reach an end to the war. An Iranian diplomat instead insisted any such visit would only come after…
As the Navy continues to move forward with plans to reopen its Red Hill well and reconnect it to its Oahu water system five years after it was contaminated with jet fuel, the service faces ongoing skepticism over its insistence the water will be safe to drink. The Navy released…
A conservative congressman has included a provision in the U.S. House version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that calls on all services to expand waivers for military enlistees who test positive for tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the primary psychoactive component found in cannabis. An amendment included in the House’s NDAA…
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Marine Corps officer Juan Arce understands the challenges and joys of balancing fatherhood with service. Arce’s and potentially thousands of other single parents can be overlooked in the military community. Author Sacra Durandisse found a way to highlight Arce’s story and bring awareness to other single-parent military households in her…
How did Stephen Siller Jr. spend his Father’s Day? Hauling around a nearly 17,000-pound beam, remnants of the World Trade Center, to honor his father, Stephen Siller Sr., a New York City firefighter who died on 9/11 racing in to rescue victims following the deadliest terrorist attack in American history.…
Federal investigators say former CIA officer David J. Rush accumulated more than $40 million in gold bars, millions of dollars in cash and dozens of luxury watches while allegedly deceiving colleagues, falsifying credentials and exploiting the secrecy of the U.S. intelligence system. The case first appeared to be a government-theft…
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Parts of the National Security Agency have lost access to Anthropic’s Mythos 5 model after the Trump administration restricted its export, though the agency may have limited ways to use the technology, according to two people familiar with the matter.Some agency analysts were notified Friday that they would lose access…
The Republican-led U.S. Senate served up a rare public check on President Donald Trump’s agenda Tuesday when it voted to approve a House-passed War Powers Resolution to end hostilities in Iran.Senate approval marked the first time both chambers have agreed in a rebuke of Trump over his war in Iran.The concurrent resolution,…
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The Space Force needs to better define its policies regarding conflict in space and better rehearse for various scenarios, a new research paper argues.The paper flowed from a January workshop held by the Mitchell Institute. About 50 space experts envisioned various new ways that satellites and spacecraft might be used…
