One of the most consistently underused benefits available to service members and their families is also one of the simplest to access: free, confidential, nonmedical counseling through Military OneSource, up to 12 sessions per issue, with no referral, no diagnosis and no reporting back to anyone’s chain of command. What…

The Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System, DEERS, is the database that quietly underpins nearly every benefit a military family uses day to day: Tricare coverage, commissary and exchange access, base facility access, and the ID card that gets checked at every gate. It’s also one of the easiest things to…

Anthropic’s flagship artificial intelligence model Claude gained unauthorized access to the networks of three different organizations, the company announced following internal cybersecurity audits of its routine model evaluations. In a press release posted Thursday, Anthropic said that, following the containment breach of OpenAI’s ChatGPT-5.6 and subsequent attack on Hugging Face’s systems,…

The nation’s largest military shipbuilder sees maritime drones producing “modest” revenue now, but expects that to grow as the Navy builds its unmanned fleet, HII’s chief executive said during Thursday’s earnings call. “We know it’s going to become more of the Navy fleet because [unmanned systems] can do excess missions and…

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has awarded eight grants totaling nearly $2.2 million to send K-12 and university students into national and VA-funded cemeteries to research the lives of the veterans buried there, and to publish what they learn. The money flows through the National Cemetery Administration’s Veterans Legacy…

There’s a 55-and-older active adult community in Gettysburg, PA, that has proven to be an attractive place to settle for veterans, retired federal workers and others with military or government backgrounds. Just a two-hour drive from Washington, DC, and only ten minutes from historic Gettysburg, Amblebrook at Gettysburg is said…

Two U.S. service members in Jordan have been killed and another remains missing following Iranian missile and drone attacks. The announcement, made Saturday afternoon by U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), stated that U.S. military personnel and partner forces worked in cohesion to defend against Iranian attacks in the region. The services…

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