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…

The defense industry would likely struggle to rebuild the U.S. military’s crucial space capabilities during a war with China or Russia because it will have too few skilled engineers to do the work, according to a new report from RAND.Today, the country’s space-focused defense companies employ roughly 3 percent of…

CAIRO (AP) — A U.S. missile hit a home in southern Iran where dozens were gathered to celebrate the wedding of a fisherman’s daughter, according to a rights group and Iranian media. Iranian state media said four people — two women and two children — were killed and more than…

The House approved a continuing resolution on Tuesday that funds federal agencies through Dec. 11 and extends key federal cybersecurity authorities and tech programs past their Sept. 30 expiration date, including the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015.The legislation, part of a broader package that President Donald Trump is expected…

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