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House appropriators supported a $1.5 billion White House budget request to back E-7 Wedgetail development, but pushed back on an attempt to raid the Navy’s airborne early warning account to partially fund the Air Force’s next-generation radar plane.In a letter last week, Russell Vought, the Office of Management and Budget director, detailed the E-7 shuffle to House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. The Pentagon suggested pulling $651 million from the Navy’s E-2 procurement account and $899 million from the Air Force’s classified special update programs. While House appropriators backed the full E-7 funding in their version of the annual defense spending…

Iran Press TV Thursday, 25 June 2026 4:29 AM The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy has strongly warned that safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz is only possible via routes officially designated by the Islamic Republic. In a statement issued on Thursday, the force described any alternative transit routes as “unacceptable and completely dangerous.” “Traffic of vessels outside these routes is prohibited, and we warn against any traffic outside the communicated routes,” it added. The statement further emphasized that coordination with the IRGC Navy is “mandatory” for transit through the strategic waterway. The warning came a few days…

Persuading young people to work in public service is challenging, several speakers said on Monday at a “Celebration of the American Public Servant” gala sponsored by the National Academy of Public Administration in conjunction with the U.S. semiquincentennial. Government Executive was a partner for the event. “When you think about media today, it’s not always in our favor to be a public servant,” said JoAnne Bass, a retired Air Force officer who was the first woman to serve as the highest-ranking enlisted leader in a U.S. military branch. But the federal employees who spoke at the event, many of whom have served…

U.S. House lawmakers approved a fiscal year 2027 spending bill that would include cuts to the Air Force’s flying hours and other budget requests.In the Operation and Maintenance portfolio of the Weapons System Sustainment program, the Department of the Air Force requested $9.9 billion for its entire Flying Hour Program in April in an effort to boost pilot flying hours to over a million for fiscal year 2027 — an increase of 22%. While the Air Force requested $7.265 billion for its Flying Hour Program, the House Committee on Appropriations recommended a $121 million decrease for a total of slightly…

Marconi Technologies has completed a multi-day troposcatter communications evaluation with Försvarets Materielverk (FMV), the Swedish Armed Forces’ defence materiel authority, demonstrating sustained, high-throughput connectivity with its Archer troposcatter solution across a 75-kilometre link widely considered one of the most challenging in the region. The evaluation ran June 1–5, between Enköping and Arboga, Sweden, where Archer maintained a stable, frequency-diverse link. During the evaluation, Marconi demonstrated capabilities central to the Swedish Armed Forces’ requirement for a tactical troposcatter system that is both operationally capable and easy to deploy. Archer’s automatic antenna alignment and compact footprint simplifies transport and rapid fielding, while…

Today I’m going to share two of my favourite attacks from side control, namely taking the back. Someone on the bottom of side control is usually expecting armlock and choke attacks, as well as mount and knee ride transitions.  They’re usually NOT expecting you to take their back unless they decide to turn to turtle. That’s why the two attacks in this video are so unexpected, and it always makes me smile when I hit them. Believe me when I say that these rolling style attacks are a LOT easier to pull off than they look.  You simply need to…

Metis SKYPERION Lightweight in ground-mounted role (image Copyright Metis 2026) Metis, specialists in providing Radio Frequency (RF) and drone detection innovative technologies across diverse sectors, has been selected to provide its SKYPERION Lightweight passive RF sensor to KONGSBERG to support the Polish SAN counter Uncrewed Air System (cUAS) programme, worth over £30 million. SKYPERION Lightweight is a highly capable passive RF sensor designed for flexible operational deployment. The system can be mounted on vehicles for use whilst on the move, rapidly deployed to protect static locations and integrated into maritime environments, providing operators with a highly flexible counter-UAS capability deployable…

AJ McKee battles Salamat Isbulaev in the main event of PFL San Diego, and there are multiple tendrils attached to why this is a massive matchup. The former Bellator MMA champ is composed for this being his first time having an MMA fight in San Diego, and this came across when describing how he was doing, as AJ McKee said [via Bowks Talking Bouts], “Another day in paradise here in Southern California.” Competing in a place like this, where he has such a rich localized history via Team Bodyshop, embodies his fighting namesake with such synchronicity. In delving into this,…

Lipsky quoted in WSJ article on CIPS transactions – Atlantic Council In the News June 25, 2026 • 4:36pm ET Print this page Share this page ERROR MESSAGE HEADING ERROR MESSAGE SUBHEADING ERROR MESSAGE CONTENT ERROR MESSAGE INFO Oops… It looks like we’re having a technical issue. If refreshing the page doesn’t resolve the issue you could try clearing the sites browser cache. Pro Tip: If you’re on a laptop or desktop you can flush everything the browser currently has cached for the site by simply holding down the Shift key while clicking the browsers refresh icon at…

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) will stage its early and official weigh ins at 9 a.m. local time for this weekend’s UFC Baku mixed martial arts (MMA) event on Paramount+. Unfortunately for stateside fight fans, Baku is eight hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time, so most of us will be asleep by the time the first fighter hits the scale at 1 a.m. ET.No worries, we got some West Coast homies to get the job done.UFC Baku will be headlined by hometown fighter Rafael Fiziev opposite Mexican knockout artist Manuel Torres in a Lightweight five-round showdown that follows the middleweight co-main…