The U.S. and Iran have agreed to end days of back-and-forth fighting around the Strait of Hormuz and resume peace talks, said officials from the U.S. and other countries involved in the negotiations.
China has been abandoning used launcher rocket stages in low-Earth orbit at an ever-increasing pace, putting both military and commercial satellites in that crowded orbital regime at greater risk of serious debris-creating collisions, according to a new report.
The Army announced June 25 that it has officially created a branch for Soldiers specializing in space operations. The new Space Operations Branch will consolidate the service’s space professionals—including Army Space Operations officers and enlisted Tactical Space Operations Specialists under the military occupational specialty 40D created in 2025. The decision elevates space ops from a functional area to basic branch, formalizing the career within the service.
A new agentic-AI tool will continuously scan intelligence feeds and operational networks to provide U.S. military commanders with targeting options “within seconds,” the Pentagon announced June 25.
Ukraine is developing a missile that launches from a balloon at the edge of the stratosphere, built to fly through Russian jamming—one of the newest weapons in Kyiv’s growing mid-range strike campaign to pressure the Kremlin into pulling back its forces and returning to the negotiating table.
Collaborative Combat Aircraft represent the next generation of uncrewed autonomous airpower. The Air Force recently awarded a series of contracts that will see the FQ-42 and FQ-44 CCAs transition to the operational realm. We want to learn more about where the program stands at this juncture, and there’s no one better to help us do that than Anduril's Dave “Mach” Cochran and General Atomic's Mike Atwood.
House and Senate Republicans have conducted more aggressive oversight of [Elbridge] Colby than nearly any other Trump appointee. They have overruled his policies and blocked the confirmation of two officials nominated to serve as his top deputies. At least two prominent Republicans have publicly accused him of dishonesty.
As recruiting numbers improve, questions remain about how long it takes recruits to become mission qualified and contribute to military readiness. How quickly recruits move from accession to operational qualification can affect force generation, unit staffing and long-term readiness planning.
President Trump’s visit to North Dakota for an event this week will mark the inaugural trip of the new Qatari-gifted Air Force One, according to the White House.
Some Las Vegas locals were surprised on June 25 to find that the military installation known as Nellis Air Force Base is now publicly being called the U.S. Air Force Warfare Center.
“As America celebrates its 250th birthday, I find myself reflecting on a simple question: What does it mean to be an American? For me, the answer begins not on American soil, but in the middle of the South China Sea,” writes Col. Asan Q. Bui, the director of cyberspace and technology at Headquarters Air Force Reserve Command
