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…

A new “non-kinetic effects cell” has helped push cyber operations to the forefront of specialized U.S. military missions such as the capture of Venezuela’s leader in the capital of Caracas, a top official told lawmakers Wednesday.The cell is “designed to integrate, coordinate and synchronize all of our non-kinetics into the planning, and then, of course,…

We’re diving in deeper with the woman who’s been behind the mission from the start, leading operations, raising her girls, and helping build AmmoSquared with purpose and strength. The ‘mom + mission’ storyYou built this company while raising and homeschooling your girls. What did that season teach you about grit, leadership,…

The .50 BMG wasn’t born out of a desire for subtlety. When John Moses Browning developed it in the late 1910s, it was to meet the U.S. military’s need for a heavy machine gun cartridge, capable of defeating aircraft, light armor, and hardened targets at extended ranges. As such, it was…

A deal to increase production of the Air Force’s B-21 bomber could be reached by March, Northrop Grumman’s CEO said. But a looming government shutdown could hinder talks, as one did last fall.Kathy Warden said no agreement has been reached about the $4.5 billion in reconciliation funding approved last year…

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