The Department of Homeland Security’s non-federal government partners in communities across the U.S. can now apply for funding grants for certain counter-drone capabilities to address national security and safety threats posed by the illegal and nefarious use of unmanned aircraft systems.
“The funding enables state, local, tribal, and territorial governments, along with first responders and public safety entities, to acquire detection and tracking technologies designed to safeguard public spaces and critical infrastructure,” officials wrote in a notice published online this week.
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President Trump has also ordered the War Department to create rapid reaction units of approximately 500 national guard assigned to cities across the nation.
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As violence and threats emerge from the Marxist left, the typical end-game of a Marxist revolution, Trump officials are taking cover for security and privacy.
Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and jihadists. Read more below.***RussiaA phone call between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio last week failed to advance preparations for the planned Budapest summit between Washington and Moscow, which U.S. President Donald Trump later cancelled. According to the White House, there are “no plans … in the immediate future” for Trump to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The Air Force is telling roughly 50 airmen and Space Force guardians who had expected to separate in November that their time in the service is being extended for 60 days due to the government shutdown, a Department of Air Force spokesperson told Task & Purpose.
The service members affected by the extension have scheduled separation dates, but they have not yet applied for official separation of service, the spokesperson said. The extension ensures that these service members will receive benefits during the shutdown and backpay when the government reopens.
The Pentagon has confirmed that troops will receive their paycheck at the end of this week.
In a statement on Thursday, a Defense Department official said that President Donald Trump is “continuing to make good on his promise to take care of the troops,” and referred questions about how troops’ pay will be funded to the Office of Management and Budget, or OMB.
Axios reported on Wednesday that OMB had found $2.5 billion from the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” that had been intended to fund military housing to pay for troops’ housing allowances; it diverted another $1.
A three-star Army general in a key position on the Joint Chiefs of Staff is retiring after less than 18 months on the job, the latest senior officer to leave a high-ranking Pentagon position early in their term amid reports of disagreements with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Separately, a Navy admiral who was in charge of the Office of Naval Research, a major Pentagon research arm, has been replaced.
The two moves do not appear to be directly connected.
CNN first reported that Army Lt. Gen.
US president Donald Trump directs the War Department to test nuclear weapons after Russia tested its own nuclear capable cruise missile.
As part of an effort to unify more than a dozen disparate networks under U.S. Indo-Pacific Command’s purview, the Department of Defense is planning to use artificial intelligence to predict and simulate adversary attacks, and enhance security of the resulting network, the Pentagon’s top IT official said Wednesday.
Indo-Pacom is in the process of consolidating 17 networks it operates to communicate with allies into a single, unified network under a program that Katie Arrington, who is performing the duties of DOD CIO, calls Mission Network-as-a-Service.
Anyone who played a military first-person shooter video game in the late 2000s/early 2010s is familiar with the Special Operations Forces Combat Assault Rifle, more commonly referred to as the SCAR (SOFCAR didn’t sound as cool). Developed by FN, the rifle was selected by U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) in both 5.56 NATO and 7.62 NATO as the Mk 16 SCAR-L (Light) and Mk 17 SCAR-H (Heavy), respectively.
A mere 15 years later, FN announced the end of the SCAR’s production.
The U.S. military is the most sophisticated fighting force in modern history. However, that doesn’t mean there have not been moments of unforced failure or unexpected setbacks. The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the Chinese intervention in Korea, and the fall of Kabul as recently as 2021: all of these episodes were driven by a failure to account for the capabilities, technologies, and cunning of an adversary.