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Zelensky meets Syrian president to forge security cooperation
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met Syrian President Ahmed al‑Sharaa in Damascus, pledging security cooperation and joint food‑security projects. The visit follows Kyiv’s recent drone‑defense deals with Saudi Arabia and Qatar, highlighting Ukraine’s push to export its drone expertise to the Middle East.
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By the numbers: Kraken Robotics acquires Colvya Group for $615M
The National Nuclear Security Administration is integrating artificial intelligence into its core missions through human‑machine teaming, using predictive analytics to improve equipment maintenance and cybersecurity. This approach shifts personnel from routine monitoring to higher‑value decision‑making. Simultaneously, NNSA is advancing a three‑cloud classified network rollout within a year, bolstering cloud capabilities while addressing new security challenges. Agency leaders stress upskilling the workforce to effectively manage AI tools and modernized cloud environments.
On March 26, the U.S. War Department launched an unidentified suborbital missile from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, with no public details on the vehicle or its mission. The launch occurred around 12:30 p.m., leaving a thin white contrail over the...
Independent testing of ore from a newly identified Alaskan deposit found it exceeds military‑grade quality thresholds. The discovery could reshape U.S. supply chains for defense‑critical minerals, intensifying the clash between mining advocates and conservation groups.
The United States is moving from air strikes to ground operations in its escalating war with Iran, dispatching Army paratroopers and weighing a larger troop surge. The shift, reported by multiple outlets, raises questions about the conflict’s trajectory and its...
Pro‑Iran hacktivist group Handala announced it accessed FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal email and posted screenshots online. An insider familiar with the breach said the leaked material appears authentic, though the FBI maintains it contains only historical personal information and...
Space Force is evaluating a significant increase in launch cadence at NASA’s Wallops Island range to satisfy rising commercial demand, Gen. Stephen Whiting told the Senate Armed Services Committee. Wallops, long used for niche missions such as small‑satellite and hypersonic...
For the first time, every NATO member has met the alliance’s 2 % of GDP defence‑spending target, lifting total NATO defence outlays to a record $1.4 trillion, up from $1.3 trillion a year earlier. The surge is driven largely by Europe and Canada,...
Drones disrupted modern warfare. Now, a vision of a single operator with a VR helmet directing a swarm of robots ready for combat. This isn’t an episode of Black Mirror. It’s the near-future. Tech is outpacing doctrine, law, and ethics. That gap is where...
The U.S. Navy issued its final request for proposals on March 26 for a next‑generation Undergraduate Jet Training System to replace the aging T‑45 Goshawk fleet. The service set an aggressive acquisition timeline and a firm cost target while dropping the...
g7 foreign ministers meeting in france today. on the agenda: stop the war, end iran's nuclear program, reopen the strait of hormuz. also on the agenda, implicitly: explain to allies why the us launched this war without telling them and ask...
At RSAC 2026 the cybersecurity community warned that AI agents are moving from a defensive tool to a primary weapon for attackers. These autonomous agents can hijack identities, rewrite security policies and launch supply‑chain attacks at machine speed, outpacing traditional...
Former Secretary of State Antony Blinken told NYT correspondent David Sanger at Harvard Kennedy School that any further U.S. and Israeli escalation against Iran will be constrained by “markets and munitions,” meaning energy prices, financial markets and Israel’s interceptor stockpiles....
In August 1941 Britain and the Soviet Union launched a joint invasion of Iran, ending the long‑standing Great Game rivalry by securing the country’s oil fields and the Trans‑Iranian railway. The operation, aimed at supplying the Soviet Red Army with fuel,...
Northrop Grumman secured a firm‑fixed‑price contract worth $127.3 million to produce Lot 18 of the GQM‑163A Coyote Supersonic Sea‑skimming Targets (SSST). The award covers 28 target vehicles and associated support for the U.S. Navy and allied forces in Japan and South Korea,...
The U.S. State Department has cleared a $340 million foreign military sale to Japan for upgraded Hyper Velocity Gliding Projectiles (HVGP) capability. The package includes the missiles, test preparation, logistical support, range and safety services, and radio‑frequency assignments. The sale aims...
Professor John J. Mearsheimer, a leading realist scholar at the University of Chicago, argues that power—especially military and nuclear—trumps moral considerations in international relations. He contends that nuclear weapons can paradoxically enhance stability while international institutions remain marginal in shaping...
The Florida National Guard held its first joint Oleoresin Capsicum (OC) spray certification in decades at Camp Blanding, involving more than 100 soldiers from Army and Air Guard units. The 715th Military Police Company and the 125th Security Forces Squadron...
The U.S. Air Force, Northrop Grumman and Bechtel have broken ground on a prototype launch silo for the LGM-35A Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile in Promontory, Utah. The silo will test a modular, repeatable construction method intended to accelerate deployment, curb...
The second half of 2025 saw a surge in DDoS attacks across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, with 3.33 million incidents recorded, nearly double any other region. Hacktivist groups Keymous+ and NoName057(16) drove the majority of campaigns, targeting governments, financial...
RUAG International’s 2025 fiscal year saw net sales dip to CHF 412 million (~$521 million) while earnings before interest and taxes fell to a loss of CHF 114 million (~$145 million) due to high engineering costs in its Launchers division and one‑off transformation expenses. The company...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued an updated ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2011 data exchange standard, documented in a 621‑page NIST SP 500‑290e4. The revision expands machine‑readability, adds richer metadata, and standardizes record structures for fingerprints, facial images, iris...
Lockheed Martin and Belgian composite specialist Coexpair have signed an MOU to explore manufacturing advanced composite parts for the F‑35 fighter. Coexpair will use its SQRTM 4.0 automated resin transfer molding platform and Maestro AI‑driven software to design and test representative...
BAE Systems held its ninth annual Partner 2 Win Supplier of the Year ceremony in Boston, honoring twelve suppliers for outstanding 2025 performance. The awards recognize on‑time delivery, high quality, and collaborative technology development across aerospace, defense, and security. Winners include precision‑machined...
Senate and House Democrats sent a letter to DNI Tulsi Gabbard asking whether using virtual private networks could strip Americans of their heightened FISA protections. They argue VPNs obscure a user’s true location, potentially reclassifying U.S. persons as foreign targets...
"Military experts told BBC Eye that the Israeli air force is likely using particularly large bombs across Tehran from the Mark 80 series, which are often fitted with precision guidance systems. They added that the scale and spread of the damage...
The negotiations between the United States Department of Defense and Anthropic have highlighted who gets to make choices about AI in the military. Who should get to make these choices? https://spectrum.ieee.org/military-ai-governance
Hezbollah rebounded from Israel’s 2024 offensive that killed Hassan Nasrallah and decimated its top command, rebuilding its military capacity in just over a year. The group abandoned centralized command, adopting decentralized cells that act on broad directives and reverting to low‑tech...
Virginia‑based Applied Rapid Technologies (ART), a division of Obsidian Solutions Group, has been named the prime contractor for the Defense Logistics Agency’s Joint Additive Manufacturing Acceptance (JAMA) Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity pilot program. The award positions ART to supply 3D‑printed, flight‑safety‑critical...
An AI analysis of the 27‑year‑old signatory list to former President Khatami reveals that many of Iran’s senior IRGC and political figures have been killed in recent Israeli airstrikes and a U.S. drone strike. The review confirms the deaths of...
I apologize to all my regular followers for the rants this morning. But I need someone to explain this to me with crayons. I have never once seen @RobManess or @BuzzPatterson or @MCCCANM trashing commercial airline crews who volunteer to fly soldiers...
The attack on Iran is a catastrophe for the U.S. It ends with Trump out of office, or perhaps him finding some way to concede Iranian sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz.
The U.N. Secretary‑General warned that terrorist groups are increasingly exploiting artificial intelligence, while states are deploying AI in counter‑terrorism operations without robust human‑rights safeguards. Recent examples include U.S. and Israeli militaries using AI to select bombing targets, and the UN’s...
We break w G Korte: President Donald Trump will deliver his annual budget request to Congress on April 3 as he seeks to dramatically boost defense spending while continuing to downsize domestic agencies, according to a person familiar with the...
I suppose it depends on what purpose you believe Iran's ballistic missiles must serve. It does not appear that Iran's missiles are capable of either disrupting ongoing Israeli and US air campaign nor deterring further Israeli and US attack.
Google has deployed a high‑severity security update for Chrome, addressing eight critical vulnerabilities that impact roughly 3.5 billion users worldwide. The flaws span WebAudio, WebGL, WebGPU, font handling and FedCM, and are rated “High,” meaning they could enable code execution or...
Viktor Orban wants Hungarians to re-elect him, even though he has turned Hungary into the most corrupt and one of the poorest countries in the EU. To do so, he is telling Hungarians to fear sabotage, thievery, or even a...
This is important especially since US and China are the only countries able to ‘police’ the strait of Hormuz
The claim that the U.S. Navy allocated nearly $1 billion to automate submarine production cannot be substantiated from the provided source material. Consequently, specifics about the program, its participants, and its impact remain undisclosed.
The Iran-Hormuz conflict isn't a negotiation problem, writes @gbrew24 The core issue isn't whether or not talks happen It's whether the US can break Iran's leverage before economic pressure breaks its ability to continue Iran gets this Markets don't. Not yet.
House panel advanced legislation that would require the Commerce Department to demand chipmakers do more to keep AI tech from being smuggled to China Despite incessant cheerleading from some quarters, members understand the many problems with this bill... https://t.co/kBjLLxHfN9
Iran announced a new toll of up to $2 million for commercial ships passing the Strait of Hormuz, a move that threatens to raise shipping costs and tighten global oil supplies. The fee comes amid heightened missile attacks, diplomatic deadlock and...
Respectfully, calling Hormuz an “insurance problem” confuses a secondary constraint with the primary one @anasalhajji It's a military & physical chokepoint Insurance can help flows resume at the margin That's not control or securing the Strait for decades.
Just wrapped an incredible @planet On the Road in DC! Great to see our partner countries and companies. We are committed to helping Global security. Our archive, now nine years strong, along with AI enables countries to monitor large areas...
China announced a 2026 defence budget of 1.9 trillion yuan (about $275 billion), a 7 percent rise that continues a decade‑long upward trend despite its defensive rhetoric. Independent analysts argue the official figure understates true spending, which likely includes substantial R&D and opaque...
We should get back to the topic of chronically insufficient procurement of weapons that we can produce and could have been easily contracted.
Updated maps from the past few days showing Russian advances in or near Hryshyne, Huliaipole, Zaliznychne, and east of Slovyansk. https://t.co/5xBTsvLaYB https://t.co/i55ajICjnn
United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan heavy‑lift rocket has been grounded after a booster anomaly on its Feb. 12 flight. The setback puts the Space Force WGS‑11 communications satellite, the Next‑Gen GEO missile‑warning payload and several NRO missions at risk of delay, with...
With the Aerodynamic Modification KIt (AMK)and other upgrades on the way - the Eurofighter Typhoon is still set to be the cornerstone of European air power. #avgeek https://t.co/HctQ8eSjo4 https://t.co/MjAZ7AJHKF
We are not sending an army corps into Iran. Not happening. And how many Chinese soldiers did we kill in the Korean War?
At the RSA Conference (RSAC), industry leaders warned that autonomous AI agents are emerging as a significant cyber‑threat vector, demanding new safeguards from security teams. Speakers highlighted the dual role of AI as both an opportunity and a risk, urging...
