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Every federal employee knows the ritual. It’s late September. Program managers are sprinting unspent balances to the contracting office. Vendors are quoting “September pricing” with a straight face, and somewhere a chief financial officer is watching millions of dollars get obligated in 72 hours — not because the timing is right, but because the money dies at midnight on the 30th. That ritual is the single largest recurring transfer of negotiating leverage from the taxpayer to the vendor community. It happens every year, at every agency, on a schedule every sales rep in America has memorized. Earlier this year, an…

Key PointsUkraine’s 302nd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade publicly displayed a truck-mounted STASH air defense system for the first time in an official video.STASH combines AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire missiles with a RADA radar, giving it a maximum range of about 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) against drones.Ukraine’s military has shown a homemade air defense system built by bolting American anti-tank missiles onto a Rada radar and welding the whole thing to a Dutch army truck. Ukraine’s 302nd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade publicly displayed a new mobile variant of the STASH short-range air defense system in an official video, mounting the launcher on a DAF…

Econographics July 31, 2026 Print this page By Hung Tran In a speech at the Atlantic Council earlier this week, Financial Stability Board Secretary General John Schindler argued that international coordination remains essential in finance because risks and innovation do not stop at national borders. Tokenized bank deposits are a case in point. Until now, these deposits have largely remained confined to proprietary bank networks, limiting their use across institutions and jurisdictions—especially compared with stablecoins, whose transaction volume reached $33 trillion in 2025. But that may be starting to change. Just this month, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication…

Daniel Rodriguez shared a two-word reaction to Kevin Holland’s callout for a rematch. Rodriguez’s reaction comes in the immediate aftermath of his devastating first-round TKO loss against Uros Medic in the main event of UFC Belgrade. Despite a hard low kick that rattled Medic, Rodriguez was knocked down by a powerful combination from the Serb, seconds later. A flurry of punches on a knocked-down ‘D-Rod’ got the job done, just 30 seconds into the first round. Uros Medic earned a first-round TKO win over Daniel Rodriguez at UFC Belgrade (Image via Bleacher Report) Right after the fight, Rodriguez’s former opponent…

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Army announced July 29 it is ready to scale Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) across the force during a media roundtable at the end of Project Convergence-Capstone 6 at Fort Irwin, California. NGC2 replaces legacy, fragmented Army C2 systems – which focused on single functions like fires, logistics, or airspace management – with unified data across all functions to vastly increase the speed of commanders’ decision-making and operational maneuver. It enables every echelon from Soldier to Corps to run modern warfighting apps and artificial intelligence to support their mission, while providing resilient communications across vast…

Coach less. Love more. Imagine the horror: You’ve been driving your kids to Karate class, tournaments, and camps for years. You’ve spent boatloads of money on uniforms, belts, gradings, and equipment. You’ve invested hundreds of hours in pushing your kids to the limit relentlessly. Then one day… They quit. Just like that. You’re heartbroken. Flabbergasted. Why? You try to talk to them and convince them to continue. And you tell them they’ve come too far to quit now – give it another shot! But nothing works. When a child makes her mind up, there’s not much you can do. So……

MONOPOLY GO! is a modern twist on the classic board game Monopoly, which has been a family favourite for many years. Freebies are part of the rewards, and we can earn them via codes. To help you with this, I have created a post that lists all redeem codes available in MONOPOLY GO, along with the process for redeeming them. Additionally, if you are just starting with MONOPOLY GO!, we have also covered a comprehensive beginner’s guide for some basic tips, a guide on how to add your friends to the game, and a guide on how to get and trade Stickers. Check our free dice rolls article to…

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is pushing a bevvy of new cyber guidance to federal agencies, contractors and critical infrastructure organizations, amid concerning reports of cyber attacks on municipal water systems and ongoing debates about open source artificial intelligence systems. CISA over the past week released five advisories or pieces of guidance, in addition to updating a tool that helps agencies securely adopt cloud services. On Thursday, CISA urged the water and wastewater sector to protect their operational technology (OT) systems from threat activity targeting programmable logic controllers (PLCs). “Threat actors targeting exposed PLCs have modified passwords to lock…

The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. An F-35B crashed near the runway at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar north of San Diego at around 10:00 AM local time today. The aircraft was seen in helicopter footage from Fox 5 broken into two major pieces and burned. JUST IN: An F-35 caught fire after a mishap at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego on Friday morning. Emergency crews responded to heavy smoke around 10 a.m. Cause under investigation. – FOX 5 pic.twitter.com/oDthXqbQRf— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) July…

‘Shara Bullet’ is the latest UFC fighter to commit to the RAF mats.The freestyle wrestling promotion announced Friday that Bullet a.k.a. Shara Magomedov is the newest member of the RAF roster.An opponent and date are still to be announced for Bullet’s first RAF appearance.Bullet (17-1 in MMA) joins a growing list of UFC stars signed to compete for RAF, including former champions Merab Dvalishvili, Henry Cejudo, Belal Muhammad, and Khamzat Chimaev. The promotion recently introduced Crossover Championship titles to accommodate the MMA transplants, with dedicated elite wrestlers like Kyle Snyder, Kyle Dake, David Carr, and Helen Maroulis competing for RAF…