The Department of Defense plans to bring new models onto its internal, department-wide artificial intelligence marketplace and deploy them at higher classification levels, part of its updated procurement policy that aims for “commercial-first” in its deliverables. Cameron Stanley, the chief digital and artificial intelligence officer at DOD told attendees at the…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: I do enjoy suffering weirdly, especially if it’s with someone else. So on a race day, for sure, there’s something about that shared suffering, and obviously we share that during hunting season, race day is super fun. It’s fun to see your progress progress, so you know,…

A federal judge has ordered the Defense Department to temporarily halt a requirement that journalists be accompanied by an official escort, another legal setback for the Trump administration’s efforts to restrict media access at the Pentagon. It was not immediately clear whether the order applied only to reporters from The…

When the FourLeaf Air Show moves to July 4 weekend for America’s 250th birthday, some of the oldest aircraft in the sky will carry more than engine noise over Jones Beach. The American Airpower Museum in Farmingdale, N.Y., is preparing to fly a formation of World War II-era warbirds during…

Jergen “CoachCam” Campbell was tired of seeing friends he served with die by suicide. So, he decided to do something about it. Make people laugh. More importantly, open, honest, raw, emotional and thoughtful dialogue around the mental health issues some veterans face. Campbell, a Marine Corps veteran who served for…

For many Americans, the nation’s 250th anniversary will center on July 4, 2026, and the signing of the Declaration of Independence. In Yorktown, Virginia, local officials are asking visitors to look further down the road, to the battlefield where independence was secured years later. Yorktown’s VA250 and America250 programming is…

Hours after Iranian drones damaged U.S. Navy facilities in Manama, Bahrain, U.S. Navy Central Command told all servicemembers and contractors who live and work in and around the base that the area is no longer safe and they will receive money to stay in a hotel elsewhere. An email obtained by…

Coordinated U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iranian targets are putting renewed focus on how the United States integrates offensive cyber capabilities into the battlespace — and how prepared federal agencies are for retaliation at home.Iran has shown a tendency to respond to overseas threats with cyber means, from defacing websites…

After U.S. and Israeli missiles struck Iran’s nuclear sites in June 2025, Tehran responded with a limited attack on the American airbase in Qatar. Five years before that, a U.S. drone strike against Qasem Soleimani, head of the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force, was met with followed by an attack…

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