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The Space Force met its 18-month deadline to get up and running. Here’s what’s next.
Space Force leadership expects to take on wideband satellite communications in the Army and narrowband SATCOM operations in the Navy this fall.
Defense bill to include billion dollars for pandemic response and preparedness
The House’s forthcoming NDAA may include a billion-dollar pandemic response and preparedness fund, in part to boost domestic production of medical equipment, like ventilators and face masks.
By Joe Gould
Defense Department linguist charged with leaking classified information to terrorist organization
Mariam Taha Thompson, a linguist with the Defense Department, allegedly delivered classified information to a co-conspirator who has “apparent connections” to Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite group designated a foreign terrorist organization. Thompson held a Top Secret clearance at the time of her arrest, where she was attached to a special operations unit in Iraq.
By Dylan Gresik
Dems, GOP divided after Iran briefing from Trump administration officials
The U.S. and Iran stepped back from the brink of war, but some lawmakers are left with questions about the administration’s strategy.
By Joe Gould
Congress criticizes how Coast Guard investigates harassment
But Republican lawmakers refused to sign off on the report.
The GI Bill should’ve been race neutral, politicos made sure it wasn’t
While white veterans got into college with relative ease, black service members faced limited options and outright denial in their pursuit for educational advancement.
By Joseph Thompson, Mississippi State University
Explorers find second Midway flattop
The researchers used an autonomous underwater vehicle, or AUV, equipped with sonar to find the ship.
Deep-sea explorers find Japanese ship that sank during WWII
Hundreds of miles off Midway Atoll, nearly halfway between the United States and Japan, a research vessel is launching underwater robots miles into the abyss to look for warships from the famed Battle of Midway.
Homeland Security raids Coast Guard coffers to pay for border programs
FEMA also will be affected by a DHS move to reallocate $271 million, officials say.
Mutiny on the Amistad: ‘All we want is make us free.’
On Aug. 26, 1839, the Navy brig Washington seized the Spanish slaver Amistad near Montauk Point, New York, sparking one of the most important anti-slavery cases in American history.
By Dr. Howard Jones, American History Magazine