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Soldiers assigned to the 25th Infantry Division are training on the Army’s newest service rifle as part of the ongoing fielding of the M7, with instructors from the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit providing hands-on support focused on marksmanship fundamentals. USAMU instructors are working alongside Soldiers to reinforce proven shooting techniques that apply across weapon systems. While the M7 introduces new capabilities, instructors emphasized that effective marksmanship still depends on mastering the basics. “We’re not here to reinvent the wheel,” said Sgt. 1st Class Alexander Deal, team chief for the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit Service Rifle Team. “The fundamentals of marksmanship…

The federal government entered a partial shutdown early Saturday after Congress failed to agree on the yearly budget. Appropriations expired for the Departments of Homeland Security, War, State, Treasury, Transportation, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Housing and Urban Development, among other federal agencies. Essential employees will continue working Subscribe Today Get daily emails in your inbox Bipartisan progress on funding stalled after the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renée Good by federal agents in Minneapolis. Democrats say DHS funding should be contingent on new enforcement rules, requirements that officers show identification, and a code of…

Saab Selected by Missile Defense Agency for the SHIELD Program Saab, Inc. was awarded a contract for the Missile Defense Agency Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract. This contract encompasses a broad range of work areas that allows for the rapid delivery of innovative capabilities to the warfighter with increased speed and agility. “Saab’s proven systems integration and layered defense capabilities deliver scalable missile defense solutions that directly support the warfighter,” said Erik Smith, President and CEO of Saab, Inc. “By bringing together advanced sensors, command and control, and rapid integration expertise, we execute at the…

The Justice Department on Friday released a large tranche of long-awaited investigative files tied to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, encompassing more than 3.5 million pages, 2,000 videos and 180,000 images—about half of the Epstein-related materials collected by the agency, officials said. Subscribe Today Get daily emails in your inbox Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the release, which dwarfed earlier disclosures, included emails and large quantities of commercial pornography seized from Epstein’s devices, much of it heavily redacted. He rejected claims the department is concealing a secret list of Epstein associates or shielding President Donald Trump,…

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GRAND FORKS AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. —   In October 2025, the 319th Reconnaissance Wing assigned to Grand Forks Air Force Base was selected to lead the Point Defense Battle Lab, supported by the 184th Wing, Kansas Air National Guard. The Total Force team at the battle lab supports Air Combat Command’s Point Defense Task Force, a larger Counter Small Unmanned Aircraft System (C-sUAS) effort within the Department of the Air Force. The Point Defense Battle Lab will serve as a hub for collaboration, pushing boundaries in C-sUAS capabilities, ensuring the Air Force maintains tactical superiority against evolving threats, and…

FORT BUCHANAN, Puerto Rico —The Army’s home in the Caribbean is supporting the service’s transformation into a leaner, more lethal, and more agile force by modernizing how Soldiers train and generate readiness across the region. Central to this effort is theMobile Marksmanship Training Simulator (MMTS), a deployable capability operated by Fort Buchanan’sTraining Support Center (TSC). The MMTS enhances marksmanship and engagement-skills training while reducing logistical demands and costs, directly supporting the goals of theArmy Transformation Initiative (ATI). “Combined with the full range of capabilities available at the TSC, the MMTS has enabled Fort Buchanan to adapt how we support the…

Thales RapidRanger – a modular integrated mobile weapon system – firing StarStreak On Ukraine’s front lines, a small robot trawls through the dark, laden with supplies. Against long odds, this Uncrewed Ground Vehicle delivers a lifeline to the warfighter who depends on it. Whether platforms can go the distance and deliver the required effect is increasingly defined by the mission systems they’re equipped with – the sensor suites, autonomy modules and C4ISR capabilities that turn a technological edge into an advantage. As Human Autonomy Teams go, this serves as just one discrete example among many. Platforms, of course, predominate. However,…

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and…