On Sept. 9, Creech AFB, Nev., experienced a failure of SIPRnet, an internal military network that parallels but is not connected to the internet, Maj. Malinda Singleton of Air Combat Command public affairs confirmed Thursday. Buzzfeed reported the network failure Wednesday and suggested potential connections between the SIPRnet problems and a series of recent remotely piloted aircraft strike errors made by US forces in Syria, Afghanistan, and Somalia. Singleton said, “there is no correlation between SIPR network issues and the disruption of the MQ-1 and MQ-9 flight operations. As to concern about the Sept. 9 SIPR connectivity issue, the investigation into the issue is ongoing, and for operational security reasons, we typically don’t discuss the specific impacts of a network outage.” She also said that “the network is up and running” again at Creech.
Navy CCA Program’s Shape Coming into Focus
Oct. 17, 2025
In announcing its Navy Collaborative Combat Aircraft contract, General Atomics has provided some clues as to where the service is heading with its version of an armed, autonomous fighter escort. It will likely be quite different from the Air Force version.
