Amid the Defense Department’s wide-reaching reforms of how it buys capabilities, lawmakers are proposing to get rid of two Space Force organizations that currently hold semi-autonomous acquisition authorities.
The House Armed Services Committee published the chairman’s mark of the fiscal 2027 National Defense Authorization Act on Tuesday that includes language to eliminate the Space Development Agency and the Space Rapid Capabilities Office.
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ABERDEEN, Md. — The Army Data Operations Center — a new, centralized hub to help the service manage data flows — will employ minimal human staffing and require automation to keep up with growing force-wide demands, officials anticipate, key factors that may determine the organization’s future.
The service launched the ADOC in April in response to changes on the modern battlefield and frustrations from data teams across the Army that were struggling to connect disparate military systems.
Four years into the war in Ukraine, the Russian economy has not yet collapsed. Rather, GDP numbers and wartime industrial output have often exceeded Western expectations. But despite Russia’s macroeconomic stability, problems lurk; ordinary Russian citizens are encountering rising food prices, higher fuel costs, growing tax burdens, and labor shortages.
So while the Kremlin has so far prevented the complete implosion of the Russian economy, the cost has been shifted onto Russian consumers, who are now paying higher prices for everyday goods.
Putin in 2021.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has dragged on for more than four years, and things are going very badly for Moscow.
Russian forces lost a net total of 69 square miles of territory in Ukraine between late April and May 19, 2026, marking Moscow’s most significant sustained territorial setbacks since January 2024.
Russian Setbacks on Land And With Heavy Casualties in Ukraine
T-84 Tank from Ukraine War. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
Casualties remain extremely high. In April, Russian forces were losing an average of 1,000 to 1,420 troops per day.
Russia’s oil and gas sector is experiencing a historic downturn due to a combination of tightening Western sanctions, falling global crude prices, and sustained infrastructural damage due to Ukrainian drone strikes.
The crisis has led to severe budget deficits and a wave of bankruptcies across the country’s energy infrastructure.
T-14 Armata. Image Credit: Russian State Media.
In February 2026, Russia’s oil export revenues collapsed by $1.5 billion month-on-month to $9.
First we were treated to nonstop legacy media coverage of a cruise ship stricken with the deadly hantavirus. Hantavirus, with its 40% mortality rate and an incubation period lasting for weeks, made the perfect pandemic boogey man. With some of the initial fears about the human-to-human spread of hantavirus beginning to subside, we are now being treated to a new pandemic scare: Ebola.
When it comes to a horrifying pandemic, few are scarier than Ebola.
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America’s emergency oil stockpile is shrinking at one of the fastest rates ever recorded as the war with Iran continues to disrupt energy flows through the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. and its allies are burning through the reserves meant to protect them from a prolonged crisis, but analysts can’t all agree whether it poses a long-term risk to the United States. They can, however, predict that it will cause major economic instability in the near future.
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Washington — The United States intends to significantly reduce the military forces it would make available to European allies during a potential crisis, including strategic bombers, fighter jets, warships and refueling aircraft, according to a report by German news magazine Der Spiegel.
The planned reductions come as the NATO alliance faces growing strain amid transatlantic tensions. European officials have expressed concern that Washington could scale back its commitments or even withdraw support entirely.
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