The Pentagon announced Oct. 24 that SSgt. Brian P. Hause, 29, of Stoystown, Pa., died the day before of non-combat related medical causes while deployed to Iraq from the 20th Equipment Maintenance Squadron at Shaw AFB, S.C. There were no further details in the release, which said the “incident is under investigation.”
The computer code that runs the MQ-9 Reaper drone will be overhauled in the next two years to test revolutionary new tools that would make its software “much, much harder to hack,” the Air Force says.