U.S. forces destroyed Iran’s military space command, Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of Central Command, announced Thursday, saying the move degraded the regime’s ability to coordinate retaliatory strikes. But experts told Defense One that the country’s nascent space capabilities never posed a significant threat. “We’ve also struck Iran’s equivalent of Space…

President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency privately told stakeholders he left his role in the U.S. Coast Guard to address concerns about his ties to shipbuilding work that led a Republican lawmaker to place a hold on his nomination late last year.Sean Plankey told…

With a timeline for the U.S.’s war with Iran very much up in the air, a task force assigned to improving the U.S.’s ability to down small drones both at home and abroad is eagerly awaiting lessons from the conflict—while moving as quickly as possible to make sure bases around…

The Department of Defense has a new acting leader for its cybersecurity enterprise, with the agency tapping former Air Force Chief Information Security Officer James “Aaron” Bishop to serve as the department-wide CISO and deputy chief information officer for cybersecurity. The move was announced Feb. 27, a Pentagon spokesperson confirmed to…

Decades-old B-1 and B-52 bombers have hit hundreds of Iranian military targets this week, and experts say it underscores the need to retire the former and modernize the latter for future conflicts against Russia and China.The two venerable aircraft are the latest additions to the list of platforms used in…

Kristi Noem will step down as secretary of the Homeland Security Department at the end of the month, President Trump announced on Thursday, amid a tumultuous period for the agency that has overseen the administration’s controversial immigration crackdown. Trump said on social media that he will nominate Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., to…

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife (FWS) recently moved to confirm the delisting of the lesser prairie chicken, a rare and long-embattled species of upland bird. The action is the latest in a back-and-forth over whether the bird should be protected under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).The species of prairie grouse,…

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