Author: Tony Grist

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a quarter point, or 25 basis points, on Wednesday. The decision was passed by a split 9–3 vote of the Federal Open Market Committee. Fed Governor Stephen Miran voted against the decision, favoring a half-point rate cut, while Kansas City Fed President Jeff Schmid and Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee dissented in favor of holding rates steady. This marks the third consecutive meeting at which the Fed has cut interest rates, bringing the target range to 3.5–3.75 percent.  The median projection of Federal Reserve officials now places inflation at 2.4 percent by the…

LionHeart Alliance Awarded Spot on ICE’s Law Enforcement (LE) equipment Contract for Tactical and Operational equipment. Virginia Beach, VA – 26 November 2025 – LionHeart Alliance, a Virginia Beach-based tactical gear supplier, has been selected as a contract awardee on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Law Enforcement (LE) Equipment Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA). With a total ceiling of $49.5 million, this award allows LionHeart to support ICE Office of Firearms and Tactical Programs (OFTP) with essential tactical equipment – delivered fast and procured without friction. The LE equipment contract is built to simplify the acquisition of mission-critical gear for its…

McLEAN, Va., Dec. 08, 2025 — HII (NYSE: HII) announced today that its Mission Technologies division has deployed and operationalized a next-generation high-performance spectrum dominance solution, now available for rapid detection and location of hostile communications, radar and other electronic threats. HII will showcase its GRIMM® technology — and its field-proven capabilities in situational awareness, intelligence support and force protection — at the Association of Old Crows’ 2025 International Symposium & Convention at National Harbor, Maryland. GRIMM® leverages decades of HII expertise developing electromagnetic warfare technology for national defense. Now deployed with mission success across a range of defense customers,…

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) introduced a bill Tuesday that would require the president to “give notice of the denunciation of the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of withdrawing the United States from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.” The bill would also prohibit the federal government from contributing funds to NATO budgets. Subscribe Today Get daily emails in your inbox “NATO is a Cold War relic,” Massie wrote in a post on X. “The United States should withdraw from NATO and use that money to defend our country, not socialist countries.” Debates over NATO have grown increasingly pronounced within…

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USSOCOM Cancels LMG-A Effort, For Now USSOCOM has updated the call for white papers issued in March of this year for their Lightweight Machine Gun – Assault effort with the following statement: PEO-SW PM SOF Lethality has adjusted the LMG-A Prototyping Project.  SOF AT&L-KR will no longer be moving forward with the prototyping effort.  Instead, the Navy Crane Contracting office will restart the effort.  That said, expect something to be announced by that office in the very near future.  This Other Transactional Agreement procurement effort was intended to seek out a life cycle replacement for the MK48 Light Machine Gun…

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FORT RUCKER, Ala. – The Army Drone Team competed in the National Drone Association’s Drone Crucible Competition Dec. 4-6, joining some of the military’s top drone operators and industry experts in a series of combat-focused challenges. The event, held at Camp Blanding, Fla., brought together teams with their own unmanned aircraft systems to test and refine squad-level drone capabilities. Scenarios included close-quarter breaching and room clearing, strikes against moving enemy convoys and aerial targets, long-range engagements on critical assets, and integrated missions against multiple targets and counter-drone systems. Capt. Jacob Bickus, officer in charge of the Army Drone Team stationed…

Yesterday, several employees at the Pentagon got a pop-up on their computers inviting them to use a new artificial intelligence tool developed for the War Department. Some were skeptical, wondering if the invitation was part of a cybersecurity test. But by this morning, those concerns were gone — posters around the Pentagon and an email from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth assured everyone that the new tool is not only legit, but that he wants everybody to start using it.  “I am pleased to introduce GenAI.mil, a secure generative AI platform for every member of the Department of War,” Hegseth…