Twelve companies are now competing to build space-based interceptors for President Donald Trump’s sprawling Golden Dome missile defense shield, the Space Force announced Friday. In late 2025 and early this year, the Space Force awarded 20 Other Transaction Authority agreements, flexible contracts not bound by certain federal procurement regulations, Space Force…

Bob Smith stepped into the Maine woods on a November afternoon in 1997 and never came back.His wife heard a single gunshot. Then… nothing.What followed was the largest ground search in the history of the Maine Warden Service. Investigators found clues—a set of boot prints, a strange arrow in the…

L3Harris Technologies’ plan to create a new publicly traded solid rocket motor company in the second half of this year includes the U.S. government, which will become a significant stockholder in that post-IPO entity.Their transaction announced Tuesday has multiple moving parts to it, starting with the Defense Department’s agreement to…

The Pentagon’s third AI-acceleration strategy in four years sets up seven “pace-setting projects” that will “unlock critical foundational enablers” for other U.S. military efforts, the department announced Monday. The six-page document also directs the department’s many components to fulfil a four-year goal to make their data centrally available for AI training…

The state of Minnesota sued the federal government on Monday, calling a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) immigration enforcement surge an unconstitutional “federal invasion” after a deadly ICE shooting last week ignited national protests and widespread commentary on federal tactics.The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court on Monday by Minnesota…

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