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The Oklahoma City Bombing on April 19, 1995, took the lives of 168 people, including 19 children, and injured hundreds more. The FBI calls it “the worst act of homegrown terrorism in the nation’s history.” In the wake of the bombing, investigators conducted over 28,000 interviews, collected more than 3 tons of physical evidence, and followed more than 43,000 leads. Ahead of the attack’s 30th anniversary, WATM spoke with retired FBI Special Agent Bob Ricks, who served as the Special Agent in Charge of the Oklahoma City Field Office at the time of the bombing.

Air Force pilots and aircrew who are pregnant will no longer be allowed to fly during their first trimester under revised flight rules announced by the service Tuesday. The move is one of several updates to rules for pregnant women that both restrict and loosen when they can fly.
None of the changes were prompted by any specific cases involving pregnant airmen, said Rose Riley, an Air Force spokeswoman. The new rules, she said, bring the Air Force guidelines more in line with other military branches’ policies on when pregnant service members can fly.

Logline:  A U.S. helicopter goes down in North Korea and a group of reserve soldiers must find a way out before starting a war.
Valiant One is directed by Steve Barnett, written by Barnett and Eric Tipton, and stars Chase Stokes, Lana Condor, Desmin Borges, Daniel Jun, Jonathan Whitesell and Callan Mulvey. The film hit theaters on January 31 and tells an excellent story of overcoming the odds and finding the leader within you during your darkest moment. Chase Stokes strongly portrays US Army Soldier Edward Brockman, a young man who has plans to better himself outside of the service.

Deputy Secretary of Defense Stephen Feinberg issued a new memorandum directing the Pentagon’s near-term implementation of President Donald Trump’s DOGE-inspired executive order that seeks to pare back federal agency regulations.
Obtained by DefenseScoop and authenticated by several defense officials this week, the March 31 memo and its attached spreadsheet reveal a wide range of existing rules and guidance associated with the Defense Department’s intelligence, information technology, weapons acquisition and other portfolios that are now up for review.

The Army awarded 3dB Labs an other transaction agreement to develop and demonstrate a prototype for the Spectrum Situational Awareness System (S2AS), according to a release.
S2AS is envisioned to provide sensing and visualization of what units look like in the electromagnetic spectrum and allow commanders to be able to sense and report in real-time their command post signatures, sources of electromagnetic interference — either from coalition partners or the enemy — and threat emissions.

In her 2021 article, “Analyzing the Climate Security Threat: Key Actions for the U.S. Intelligence Community,” Erin Sikorsky of the Center for Climate Security, offered recommendations to the U.S. Intelligence Community for integrating climate security threats into its analyses. Four years later, as the winds of political change have blown while climate security risks have compounded, we asked her to reassess her argument. Image: NASA Your 2021 article argued the intelligence community needed to better integrate climate security threats into its analysis.

The Defense Information System Agency’s Thunderdome program has reached full compliance with the Pentagon’s advanced zero-trust standards, according to Randy Resnick, director of the department’s ZT portfolio management office. 
The achievement is a major milestone for DISA’s Thunderdome initiative, which offers a suite of IT and cybersecurity technologies that various agencies across the Defense Department can use as their zero-trust solution.

The fourth and final soldier killed in a heavy vehicle accident last week was a 28-year-old artillery mechanic from Michigan, the Army said Wednesday.
Staff Sgt. Troy S. Knutson-Collins of Battle Creek, Michigan was killed on March 25 along with three other soldiers when their M88A2 Hercules — a tank-like tow-truck for other armored vehicles — sank into a swampy bog in a Lithuanian training area. He had been assigned to the 3rd Infantry Division since 2018.
“Although we are relieved to have found all our Dogface Soldiers, it does not make the pain of their loss any less,” said Maj.

An artificial intelligence startup wants to give troops on the ground the power of experienced intelligence analysts.
Danti provides an AI-powered knowledge engine for globally generated data that enables users to ask questions using natural language. The two-year old company has already been working with military and intelligence community customers such as the Space Force and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

The UK government has admitted that supply chain issues are having an impact on the Challenger 3 programme.