The Space Development Agency’s focus on rapid satellite delivery may expose the office to “undetected or misunderstood risks,” according to a report from the Air Force Inspector General obtained by Defense News.The review, conducted from February to March of this year, largely sheds a positive light on the agency’s culture and performance. However, its survey of SDA personnel points to concerns around workforce recruitment and retention, difficulties balancing the drive for speed with the quality of the systems being delivered and compartmentalized, top-down decision-making processes. “There is concern regarding an operational speed (at all costs) mentality, potential underreporting of performance…
Author: Tommy Grant
On Monday, more than a dozen retired top Air Force generals — including six former chiefs of staff — released a letter urging Congress to reverse Pentagon plans to kill the E-7 Wedgetail program and slash F-35 procurement.“On behalf of the Air and Space Forces Association’s 125,773 members, we write to express our alarm at recent proposals to reduce the next fiscal year’s procurement of F-35As to only 24 aircraft and terminate the E-7 Wedgetail program,” the 16 retired general officers said in the letter to the top Republican and Democratic leaders in the House and Senate, which was posted…
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has ended its emergency response to bird flu, as human infections have ceased. The virus’s ability to infect seems to have abated for now. Scientists have been perplexed as to why the bird flu has ceased infecting humans in the United States while simultaneously maintaining that the risk to human beings is low. No Human Bird Flu Cases In 3 Months; Scientists Ask Why Most of us recall that the flu disappeared once COVID-19 surfaced, too, and it was all part of a massive psychological operation (psyop) to rename the common…
Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. This story, “Hawgs Ain’t All Gravy,” appeared in the January 1977 issue of Outdoor Life. In more than half a century of big-game hunting during which I have stalked, photographed, and either passed up or taken several hundred animals, I’ve had any number of them run toward me as though they intended to do me in. I thought at the time, and later was certain, that almost all of those animals had no lethal intentions. They had only one thing in…
The Army has updated its grooming policy on facial hair, now requiring soldiers with nonreligious exemptions to be supported by a medical profile and memo from their chain of command.The update reinforces the requirement that soldiers be clean-shaven when in uniform or in civilian clothes on duty, with temporary exemptions for medical reasons and permanent exemptions for religious accommodations, according to an Army release.Soldiers who require exemptions must also maintain presentable copies of their required documents when in uniform or in civilian clothes on duty. That applies to both temporary medical exemptions and permanent religious exemptions.“This update reinforces our culture…
Donald Trump is now promising to send more weapons to Ukraine after shipments were stopped last week, citing a decline in the United States’ stockpile of weaponry. The public is continuing to get whiplash from this administration as it once again pivots on its own decisions. “We’re going to send some more weapons. We have to. They have to be able to defend themselves. They’re getting hit very hard now,” Trump told reporters during a dinner with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He was speaking of sending weapons to Ukraine to continue to prop up a war the world already…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told President Donald Trump he was nominating the U.S. leader for a Nobel Peace Prize as the two took a victory lap Monday to hail their recent joint strikes on Iran ‘s nuclear facilities as an unmitigated success.The two leaders sat down with their top aides for a dinner in the White House Blue Room to mark the Iran operation and discuss efforts to push forward with a 60-day ceasefire proposal to pause the 21-month conflict in Gaza.“He’s forging peace as we speak, one country and one region after the other,” Netanyahu said as he…
Amid the nation’s upcoming semiquincentennial celebrations comes a new, 12-hour, six-part series from America’s master of documentary television. Directed by Ken Burns, “The American Revolution” explores the emerging nation’s bid for freedom and the eight long years it took to achieve American independence. “The American Revolution is one of the most important events in human history,” said Ken Burns in a recent press release. “We went from being subjects to inventing a new concept, citizens, and set in motion democratic revolutions around the globe. “As we prepare to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our founding, I’m hopeful that people throughout…
After Houthi rebels attacked a commercial ship, Israel responded by bombing Yemen. This was the first attack on a commercial ship in months. Israel attacked ports and a power plant around midnight local time Sunday night into Monday morning. Attacks On Shipping Vessels In The Red Sea Have Returned This was the first attack on Houthi targets since the ceasefire with Iran was agreed upon by both sides. The strikes come after at least three Houthi ballistic missiles were launched at Israel, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), including one missile that was intercepted Saturday. “Houthi forces installed a…
Soldiers who deployed to 14 countries in Africa and the Middle East between October 2023 and June 2025 are now authorized to wear combat patches, according to a policy released last week.The policy covers soldiers assigned or attached to units supporting operations within U.S. Central Command and U.S. Africa Command nations listed in the memo, allowing them to wear the Shoulder Sleeve Insignia for Military Operations in Hostile Conditions, or SSI-MOHC.The memo lists the following countries: Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.“These changes acknowledge the inherent risks and…