Project Maven

Over the past decade, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) spending for critical minerals transformed from virtually nonexistent into a major revenue stream, with the last five years delivering a dramatic surge in both contract volume and dollar value. The Pentagon and other defense-adjacent agencies’ growing appetite for these projects…

(RNS) — I was an Air Force journalist during the first Gulf War. I remember what military life looked like before the military acknowledged that pagan service members existed and had legitimate religious needs. Back then, the consequences showed up in very practical ways: A pagan recruit in basic training…

Over the weekend, the Department of Defense stepped into one of the more delicate questions in American religiosity: who gets to be called “Christian.” More specifically, does the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (commonly called the Mormon Church), fit the bill? The brouhaha started with Secretary Pete Hegseth’s…

The Department of Defense has revised its new, shortened list of recognized religions after fury from Utah political leaders over not classifying Mormonism as a "Christian" faith.Why it matters: The omission is stoking ire between conservative Latter-day Saints and the rest of the religious right, as some Evangelical Christians reiterate…

Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll speaks during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2027 on Tuesday. On Friday, he faced the same committee to answer why troop deployment to Poland was canceled. Photo by Annabelle Gordon/UPI | License Photo May 15…

‘The Rolling Stones: The Biography’ by Bob Spitz “Hundreds of books have been written about the Rolling Stones, but few sparkle quite like Bob Spitz’s,” said Marc Ballon in the Los Angeles Times . The author, who has previously written doorstop accounts of the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Led Zeppelin,…

The US Department of Defense has released hundreds of documents and photographs related to UFOs, some of which have been declassified, in the first of many drops to come...Read More

UFOs have come to Washington again — this time, in a newly released tranche of more than 150 previously classified documents that cover nearly 80 years of alleged sightings. Available to read today (May 8) on the Department of Defense website , the 162 newly declassified documents, photos, and videos…

TL;DR Google DeepMind’s UK workers voted 98 per cent to unionise after Google signed a classified Pentagon AI deal for “any lawful purpose,” becoming the first frontier AI lab to organise collectively. The union demands include ending military AI use, restoring Google’s scrapped weapons pledge, and creating an independent ethics…

Eight technology companies, including Google, Nvidia and SpaceX, have struck deals with the Pentagon to help the U.S. military gain an edge on the battlefield. “These agreements accelerate the transformation toward establishing the United States military as an AI-first fighting force and will strengthen our warfighters’ ability to maintain decision…