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,…
When the VA announced its first-ever MDMA-assisted therapy clinical trial for veterans with PTSD this spring, it was treated, reasonably, as a single, discrete story: one drug, one trial, one company’s compound moving through one arm of a massive federal health system. What that framing misses is that the VA…
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…
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A year ago, the Army did something it had never done before: It commissioned four of the most senior technology executives in the country as lieutenant colonels, allowed them to bypass the standard training pipeline, and told them to help modernize the force part-time while keeping their day jobs at…
The Senate on Thursday rejected a package of spending bills to fund roughly half of federal agencies, putting much of government, including the Defense Department, on a collision course with a shutdown set to begin this weekend. Eight Republicans joined all Democrats in defeating the measure, which the House previously approved…
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Dozens of military lawyers have been temporarily assigned as federal prosecutors to support law-enforcement surges in Minneapolis and other cities, a novel arrangement that is stretching an overworked judge advocate general corps and drawing concern from legal experts.This month alone, the Justice Department requested about 40 lawyers, a U.S. official…
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The soft-pedal rollout of the National Defense Strategy—a Friday-night email to press as the Washington, D.C., area braced for a crippling snowstorm—has experts wondering whether there’s an implementation plan to go with it.“My real cynical take is the strategy isn’t worth the paper it’s written on because the president’s going…
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SHOT Show is where the industry shows its cards—and January 2026 didn’t disappoint. Our team at AmmoSquared spent the week on the floor capturing the kind of details you don’t always see in press releases or product spec sheets: interesting builds, smart design choices, emerging trends, and the small moments…
President Trump’s National Guard deployments across the country have already cost $589 million, and could rise to more than $1 billion by the end of the year if staffing trends and mission scope do not change, according to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office. Current deployments are costing about…
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