Senate Republicans took a critical first step toward passing their sweeping budget reconciliation bill the night of Jan. 28 by voting to bring the package to the floor, setting the stage for a heated floor fight and a grueling series of amendment votes that was likely to stretch past the weekend.
The Pentagon wants to simplify its classified networks—so it’s testing out a secure, cloud-based network on a British aircraft carrier in the Indo-Pacific, a top defense tech official announced June 26.
The Defense Department is setting up two more military buffer zones along the southwestern U.S. border with Mexico. That brings to four the number of "National Defense Areas" where U.S. military personnel can temporarily detain undocumented migrants for trespassing on what are now considered to be extensions of U.S. military bases. ... The Air Force announced in a news release that a 250-mile stretch of the border in Texas along the Rio Grande River in Cameron and Hidalgo counties will be transferred from the International Boundary and Water Commission and be considered a part of Joint Base San Antonio, Texas.
President Trump said June 27 he believes a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas is possible “within the next week.” ... The Trump administration has pushed for a pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas for weeks, but a deal has proven elusive so far. Israel and Hamas have not publicly commented on whether a deal is possible soon.
Amid the increasing scale, scope and speed of threats in cyberspace, the rules of engagement to respond could be limiting the ability of America’s digital warriors to hit back in a timely manner, according to a top lawmaker.
Despite a bipartisan push to disentangle the U.S. economy from China, the military-industrial base still relies heavily on Chinese suppliers, a new study from analysis software firm Govini warns. And, the company’s leader says, that’s not the only weak link.
At midnight on June 13, Israel’s generals gathered in a bunker beneath Israeli air force headquarters and watched as jets descended on Tehran in an operation they called “Red Wedding.” Hours later and 1,000 miles away, Iran’s top military commanders were dead—a mass killing much like the famous wedding scene from the show “Game of Thrones.”
Nebraska Republican U.S. Rep. Don Bacon appears poised to leave Congress in early 2027. ... Bacon, in recent interviews with the Nebraska Examiner and other publications, had been hinting that he might step away, with the retired Air Force brigadier saying that he had to speak with his family and decide. Bacon’s decision would cause national political shockwaves, as Bacon represents one of a handful of true swing districts left nationally, one that is Nebraska’s most politically divided and diverse.
SpaceX has secured an $81.6 million contract to launch a U.S. military weather-monitoring satellite in 2027. The contract for the mission designated USSF-178 was awarded on June 27 by the Space Systems Command and represents SpaceX’s third consecutive win under the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 3 Lane 1 program.
Russian forces have seized control of a valuable lithium deposit in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, depriving the country of a critical asset that could have helped support a new economic partnership with the United States.
Air Force basic and technical trainees no longer have any alternative exercises available in the service’s fitness test, as only the three traditional events are now being used in the assessment for them.
The decision by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to kill its five-year-old Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations project to develop a nuclear thermal engine for spacecraft was driven by an assessment that the costs no longer match the benefits, according to a senior official.
The Army has “Saving Private Ryan,” the Navy has “Top Gun,” the Marine Corps has “Full Metal Jacket” and, now, an animated children’s movie might be the Space Force’s most in-depth and accurate film depiction yet.
