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Navy researchers test robot dogs for ship maintenance
Research teams are experimenting with robot “dogs” — testing their ability to maneuver around Navy ships and take on mundane maintenance tasks.
By Hope Hodge Seck
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Did a military lab spill anthrax into public waterways? New book reveals details of a US leak.
“Pandora’s Gamble” describes how wastewater potentially containing anthrax, Ebola, and other deadly pathogens spilled from an Army facility in 2018.
By Alison Young, KFF Health News
NSA mystery case reaches the end, with many unanswered questions
A Navy veteran, Harold Martin was a contractor for the National Security Agency. His arrest followed news of a devastating disclosure of government hacking tools by a mysterious internet group calling itself the Shadow Brokers.
SIGAR: Drug lab bombing was a dead end, and most metrics for success or failure in Afghanistan are ‘classified or nonexistent'
The drug lab bombing campaign in Afghanistan that was championed as a game-changer didn’t have the intended effect of hitting the Taliban’s purse and was probably a waste of resources.
By Kyle Rempfer
Air Force labs develop and field chemlight replacement
Forces use chemlights for a wide range of activities, from marking rooms during clearance operations to identifying friendly troops for aircraft.
By Kyle Rempfer
Vet entrepreneurship program offers mentoring, networking — and free housing too?
An entrepreneurship training program in New York City offers free office space, mentoring and networking opportunities to veterans, spouses and others in the military community who want help growing their businesses. And now the year-long Apex program is offering free housing, too — a perk organizers hope will make it possible for entrepreneurs from all over the country to participate.
By Natalie Gross
Coast Guard searching for missing medical plane
Coast Guard Sector Juneau watchstanders received a warning from Sitka Flight Services that a twin-engine Guardian King Air 200 medical flight was due to land at the village of Kake — about 635 miles southeast of Anchorage on the northwest shore of Kupreanof Island — at 6:19 p.m. Tuesday but never made it.
By Carl Prine
The military is looking for a leap-ahead weapons fire control system. Could this system be the answer?
Three of the basic requirements of the Next Generation Squad Weapon program's new fire control are met with the Sig Sauer BDX.
By Todd South
Russia claims US is running a secret bio weapons lab in Georgia
Russian general says it's part of a network of U.S. labs near Russia and China, but the Pentagon strongly rejects the claim.
How the US dropped more munitions in Afghanistan this year than it has since the height of the war
U.S. Forces-Afghanistan (USFOR-A) has dropped more munitions in the first three months of this year than during the same time period in 2011 — a time widely considered the height of the war in Afghanistan.
By Kyle Rempfer
US airstrikes against Taliban drug labs extend to western Afghanistan
In perhaps a sign of the campaign’s success, U.S. Forces-Afghanistan recently announced that its efforts to stem Taliban financing by bombing narcotics facilities would expand beyond southern Afghanistan.
By Kyle Rempfer
Report: Russian hackers target secrets taken by NSA worker
Hackers allegedly working for the Kremlin stole details about how the U.S. infiltrates foreign networks and defends against cyberattacks after a National Security Agency contractor took the classified material home and put it on a personal computer, according to a news report published Thursday.
By Deb Riechmann