Space Force, the military’s newest branch, is getting its own service academy, President Donald Trump announced. On Friday, Trump signed an executive order to create the new military academy and shared the decision while speaking at NASA’s Johnson Space Center at an event honoring the members of the Artemis II mission.
Trump, who created Space Force in his first term in 2019, said that the new Space Academy will “educate and train an entire generation of skilled service members, engineers, and civil operators.
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Russia has been stepping up attacks in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, and specifically the “Fortress Belt” cities of Kostyantynivka, Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.
According to CNBC, Russia’s Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov said this week that Russia had “advanced to a position just four kilometers (2.5 miles) from the eastern outskirts of Sloviansk.” Gerasimov also said that Russia has “overcome the first defensive line of the Sloviansk-Kramatorsk fortified region.”
T-90 Tank. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
Russian T-90 Tank. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
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The Pentagon is searching for interim software-only cryptographic solutions that require zero hardware changes to protect military systems during its transition to post-quantum cryptography.
A request for information released on Thursday sets clear, operational baselines for vendors and signals that the Defense Department is executing on its nascent campaign to prepare for existential quantum threats.
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The war with Iran reached its six-month mark on Friday, August 28. And after all that time, and despite the White House insisting this would not be a protracted conflict, Tehran is still calling the shots.
After beginning with massive U.S. and Israeli strikes on February 28 that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other senior Iranian officials, and additional strikes targeting military and nuclear facilities across the country, the conflict with Iran has dragged on far longer than President Donald Trump had hoped.
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The United States claims to have heavily countered Iran’s influence in the Strait of Hormuz after months of fighting.
“That sucker is open. The Iranian response is very mild. They don’t want us to go back at them. That’s the whole ball game,” U.S. President Donald Trump told Axios on Thursday.
A U.S. Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet aircraft assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 14 participates in an air power demonstration near the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) April 24, 2013, in the Pacific Ocean. The John C.
Illustration of a light water small modular nuclear reactor. Photo: U.S. Government Accountability Office / Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain)
The U.S. Army plans to spend up to $2.2 billion to power five military bases with nuclear microreactors, a move the service hopes will help it develop a way to keep critical operations running without depending on commercial power for extended periods.
These five companies, listed in the Army announcement in no particular order, will compete for funding over a five-year period to achieve the required milestones.
Marines can now wear their college or academy class rings with their uniforms, the service announced today. The new uniform regulation change is “effective immediately.”
The single uniform adjustment, announced in a Marine administrative notice released Aug. 28, allows Marines to wear their college or commissioning-source class rings in conjunction with wedding rings.
According to the wider regulations under MCO 1020.34H, released in 2018, this means class rings can be worn with all issued uniforms, from everyday cammies to service and dress uniforms.
The military task force assigned to the U.S.-Mexico border zapped three “cartel-linked” drones using a high-energy laser developed by AeroVironment, according to industry and military officials.
Over two days this week, Joint Task Force-Southern Border used the Army Multipurpose High Energy Laser (AMP-HEL) system to “engage and defeat three hostile” unmanned aerial systems the unit determined were being used by cartels, according to a Thursday press release, citing the drones’ “use in direct support of activities posing a physical threat to” troops and border agents.