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U.S. Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff have sent a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth requesting a detailed breakdown of military deployments to Los Angeles amid recent immigration enforcement protests in the city. The two California Democrats wrote Monday that they wanted to know how thousands of National Guard…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is replacing immigration judges with hundreds of military lawyers, following the Trump administration’s monthslong purge of immigration courts. Hegseth approved more than 600 military lawyers from the Department of Defense to serve as temporary immigration judges, nearly doubling the ranks of jurists overseeing the president’s massive…

Using data collected by sensors on the U.S. Department of Defense Space Test Program Satellite 6 (STP-Sat6) in geostationary orbit, scientists have found that the number of electrical discharges on a spacecraft directly correlates to the number of electrons in the surrounding environment — information that could help them better…

The Pentagon is investing $400 million in MP Materials, a Nevada-based rare-earth producer building a new magnet plant in Fort Worth, Texas. The effort includes a $150 million Department of Defense loan and a guarantee to purchase all magnets produced at the facility. Officials also set a minimum price for...Read…

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The Department of Defense (DOD) tech innovation chief stepped down from his role, the latest departure, coming just days after DOD Secretary Pete Hegseth ousted three top military officials last week.  Doug Beck, who has led the California-based Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) since 2023, resigned on Monday...Read More

Discover how the U.S. Department of Defense could leverage advanced data and artificial intelligence to transform space-based defense through its Golden Dome initiative. Next-generation AI-powered systems, designed to integrate vast streams of satellite and sensor data, could deliver real-time situational awareness, predictive threat detection and autonomous decision support across defense networks. This…

President Donald Trump is expected to receive a $400 million Boeing 747 aircraft from the government of Qatar, a move that’s stirring significant controversy. According to The Washington Post, the massive jet will be handed over to the U.S. Department of Defense as an unconditional gift, and is set to…

Last week, Microsoft announced that it would no longer use China-based engineering teams to support the Defense Department’s cloud computing systems, following ProPublica’s investigation of the practice, which cybersecurity experts said could expose the government to hacking and espionage. But it turns out the Pentagon was not the only part…