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Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: President Donald Trump on Sept. 28 announced a Minnesota steelmaker’s plans to invest $15 billion in Iowa to build what would become the largest U.S. steel mill. The Mesabi Metallics-led project will create 1,750 jobs and add 10 million tons of annual steel production capacity, Trump said at the Oval Office. It is also expected to generate $95 billion for the U.S. economy during construction and the first 10 years of operations. The company, which is backed by India-based conglomerate…

Russian occupying forces have long used highways like the M14 to drive to Crimea. Trucks flowed along the highway, beyond the reach of the drones that made movement near the front line so dangerous. That began to change in April 2026 when the Ukrainian military deployed a large number of low-cost, intermediate range and semiautonomous attack drones that could reach beyond the range of quadcopters—as far as two hundred kilometers—in its middle-strike campaign. By late May, the M14 was populated by overturned trailers and burned out vehicles. The affordable, precise mass Ukraine used in its middle-strike campaign is invalidating the…

The Army shuttered one Okinawa-based support unit and reactivated a larger one, part of the broader effort to prepare for a potential conflict in the expansive theater.The closure of the 10th Support Group and the reestablishment of the 45th Sustainment Brigade will give the service a brigade-level headquarters that can better command and control sustainment capabilities in the region, said Col. Dennis Han, who leads the new unit. It will also mean a “small growth” in the number of soldiers at Torii Station, but no additional infrastructure at the base on Okinawa’s west coast.While the 10th Support Group was focused…

Petah Tikva, Israel, October 8,  2026 – Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ: GILT, TASE: GILT), a worldwide leader in satellite networking technology, solutions and services, today announced that Gilat DataPath has received orders totaling more than $8 million from the U.S. Department of War for field services and SATCOM system upgrades supporting deployed military communications systems. Deliveries are expected over the next 12 months. The orders further expand Gilat Defense’s presence across U.S. defense programs and reflect continued demand for its operational support capabilities and SATCOM expertise. The orders build on Gilat DataPath’s ongoing support of deployed U.S. military communications…

News October 08, 2026 Dan Taylor Technology Editor Military Embedded Systems U.S. Army photo WASHINGTON, DC. The U.S. Army released new operational guidance titled How the Army Fights, establishing a framework for applying land power at the operational level and connecting tactical actions with broader Joint Force campaign objectives, the service announced. The framework organizes Army operations around four interdependent elements: convergence, which synchronizes effects across domains; strike, which uses lethal and nonlethal fires at range; close battle, focused on defeating enemy forces and seizing terrain; and endurance, which sustains and projects combat power across time, distance, and contested environments.…

In 1914, European armies entered a war with forces designed to move. Within months, they were digging themselves into the earth. Ffires from newly introduced machine guns and heavy artillery made movement across exposed ground a proposition far more deadly than in any war that had ever afflicted humanity. More than a century later, armies are confronting an unsettling echo of that experience in Ukraine.Drones and other robotic precision weapons fill the low-altitude airspace, detecting and destroying tanks and other large vehicles that appear anywhere near the Ukrainian front and devastating any attempts at mobile ground offensives by infantry. Western…

Sean Strickland is a two-time UFC champion. He’s still waiting to be paid like one.The always vocal Strickland won his second middleweight title this past May at UFC 328, earning a split decision over the previously unbeaten Khamzat Chimaev. Strickland is yet to book a future title defense, with injuries playing a part in his absence, but he’s also publicly mentioned that issues with compensation have also left him in no rush to fight again.On Wednesday, Strickland further aired out his grievances on social media, questioning why a barely active fighter like Conor McGregor is paid so much more than…

This story was originally published by The War Horse, a nonprofit newsroom covering the human experience and cost of military service. Get more reporting like this in your inbox.Bernardino Mijares has spent most of his life searching for his father. For many years, all the 33-year-old tricycle taxi driver knew was the name his mother had told him — which later was found to be incorrect — and that his father had served in the Philippines with the U.S. Navy. Growing up in the city of Antipolo, Mijares was often singled out because of his darker skin and curly hair.…

Peraton wants to bring AI-fueled project management to the Pentagon and beyond—while also changing the perception that it’s just an IT company.It’s true the company has “a rich history of doing IT services and IT modernization acrossgovernment customers,” Gabe Camarillo, the company’s new defense sector president, told Defense One. But Peraton is also big on defense prototyping and engineering: “We do Tomahawk theater mission planning support for the Navy,” he said, plus “modeling and simulation for Aegis. Also, sonar analysis and acoustic analysis for the Navy at Carderock. And then we also provide engineering support to some Army programs, like, for…

The former U.S. Army officer convicted of killing 13 people in the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, is scheduled to be executed by firing squad in December in what would be the first military execution in more than 65 years. The announcement stunned an attorney who had represented Nidal Malik Hasan in a civil case, and raised concerns among experts on military law about whether the Army followed its mandated process for setting an execution and notifying a prisoner they’ve been condemned to death. President Donald Trump’s announcement on Monday that Hasan would be executed by firing squad…