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Commercial satellite imagery, autonomy, and Golden Dome would all get a big boost under the version of the National Defense Authorization Act passed by the House on Tuesday night. The policy bill also seeks more congressional oversight for how the Pentagon handles less formal contracts and outreach to tech firms, and bolsters U.S. forces in Europe and support for Ukraine.On satellite imagery, the bill pushes the Air Force to adopt the Tactical Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Tracking—orTacSRT—effort as a formal program of record, which means the Air Force must fund it every year out of its budget. The program allows different…

With the recent victories for Sunday hunting advocates in Pennsylvania and Connecticut, you might be wondering whether any states maintain their old blue-law prohibitions on getting out in the field.The answer is more complicated than you might think.So-called “blue laws” originated in colonial New England and prohibited a variety of activities on the first day of the week. These included things like shopping, playing sports, selling alcohol, and, yes, hunting.Most states repealed their blue laws long ago, but until just last week, 10 East Coast states have maintained their prohibitions on sportsmen in one form or another.For decades, hunting rights…

By definition, an existential threat endangers the continued existence of something. The last time American hunters faced an existential threat was during the early 1900s, when many of our most prized game bird and animal species had been nearly wiped out by market hunting and habitat loss.Fortunately, more active regulatory measures and forward-thinking management practices allowed everything from elk and whitetail deer to wild turkeys and waterfowl to recover and flourish. Then, following World War II, came several decades of what many old timers consider the glory days of hunting in America. But over the last few decades, an emerging…

Dear Dr. Emma,I hope it’s okay that I’m writing you about something I’ve never shared with anyone. My husband and I have been married for 10 years, and we have three kids. I’ve been a stay-at-home mom since our first was born, and we’ve moved six times because of his Army career. He’s getting ready to deploy again this fall.Lately, I’ve been feeling like something is missing in our relationship. We love each other and we’re good partners in parenting and life, but I feel like there has to be more to life than this day-in/day-out routine. I’ve been reading a…

A prolific Chinese hacking unit’s breach into National Guard networks poses a serious threat to Defense Department systems and is a major escalation of the group’s initial breach into core telecom networks first uncovered last year, according to experts.A Department of Homeland Security memo summarizing Pentagon findings said the group—known publicly as Salt Typhoon—“extensively compromised a U.S. state’s Army National Guard network” between March and December 2024. The state was not named. Salt Typhoon also “collected its network configuration and its data traffic with its counterparts’ networks in every other US state and at least four US territories,” says the memo,…

Former Army Staff Sgt. Dave Yeager is glad he is in recovery for a gambling addiction, given the endless options now available for placing bets through his cellphone.”I was a brick-and-mortar gambler, [and] I never really got the urge to gamble online — thank God I didn’t, because everybody I’ve ever talked to who made the transition … their gambling skyrocketed and the same likely would have happened to me,” Yeager told Military.com.The former military band member and food inspector developed an addiction while serving in South Korea, where slot machines were ubiquitous on base. Despite serving two different successful…

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The future of artillery is a system that can do both offense and defense, the head of U.S. Army Europe and Africa said Wednesday—and the service believes it’s finally at a place to make that happen.Ukraine’s valiant effort to beat back Russia’s invasion, along with the conflict in the Middle East, is “forcing” technology to mature more quickly, Gen. Chris Donahue told reporters during a press conference at AUSA’s LANDEURO exposition, and the Army is looking to capitalize.“So I do think that we’re probably at the point where technology, industry and then, as importantly, how we are going to employ…

A new long-range precision fires capability is heading to the Army’s Indo-Pacific stronghold, the commander of the 25th Infantry Division told reporters Tuesday, as part of the Army’s transformation initiative to divest of old technology and field more powerful systems across the service. The division’s artillery brigade is preparing to integrate 16 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems over the next six weeks, said Maj. Gen. Marcus Evans. Their first system arrived Monday.“Really, what this means for the division that, as a Transformation-in-Contact division, is that we are integrating in long-range precision fires that increases the ability to extend our operational reach,”…