Thursday, September 17

The United States Air Force celebrates its 79th birthday on Sept. 18, the date it was established as a separate military service in 1947. The USAF’s history goes back much further. American military aviation went through the Army Signal Corps, the Army Air Corps and the Army Air Forces before…

In a rare accusation of a Kremlin-orchestrated plot on U.S. soil, a New York federal grand jury indicted a network of five people, among them two Cubans and one Venezuelan, of recruiting American citizens to carry out surveillance and assassinations of Russian dissidents. The ring of five also targeted military…

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.— The U.S. military’s top uniformed leader says U.S. forces must be ready for war near or possibly even on the moon, a rhetorical leap that comes as service leaders are still wrestling with the legal frameworks surrounding its newly revealed orbital weapons.“Our task, my friends, is to…

Seven leading AI developers have deals to install tools in classified Defense Department networks, a wide spread meant to prevent “vendor lock,” Pentagon officials said Friday.Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Reflection, and SpaceX are cleared for Impact Level 6 and Impact Level 7 network environments, part of a bid to streamline data synthesis,…

For many video game characters, the threat of death lends some tension to the events of a story. While it is often assumed that the main character must survive to the end of the game, this is not always the case, and the character’s vulnerability drives the events forward. What…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — After decades of development, a rocket switch in March, and a last-minute weather delay, the U.S. Space Force finally launched the last satellite of the world’s most modern GPS system into orbit.The final GPS III space vehicle, known as SV-10, broke through the Florida skies and…

A record-long Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown ended Thursday but still does not fund U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The 76-day political squabble between Republicans and Democrats concluded Thursday when President Donald Trump signed a bill restoring funding to the Coast…

The United States has “a tight time window to adapt” to the “civilizational” challenge of adapting to AI, the former head of the Defense Department’s Office of Net Assessment, often referred to as the “Pentagon’s Think Tank,” told Defense One. He’s joining AI company Anthropic as a “strategist-in-residence” to lead…

Retired U.S. Army specialist turned Detroit-area supermarket cashier Ed Bambas has seen it all, including what he says is the remarkable kindness and generosity of strangers. At 88 years old, Bambas can’t believe he has nearly $2 million dollars in the bank thanks to a GoFundMe page that was set…

Elk in Montana contend with a lot of different issues. From wolves and grizzly bears to forest fires and floods, to land development and extreme hunting pressure, these elk are proven survivors that seem to be able to bounce back from nearly anything. However, in the past couple of years…

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is seeking details of a short-term ceasefire Russia proposed to U.S. President Donald Trump, he said in a post on Telegram on Thursday. Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a May 9 ceasefire to coincide with Victory Day in Russia in a phone call…

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