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This report contains discussion of suicide. Troops, veterans and family members experiencing suicidal thoughts can call the 24-hour Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988 and dial 1, text 838255 or visit VeteransCrisisLine.net.The news of eight attempted suicides across the USS Abraham Lincoln strike group generated fresh heartache and outrage for U.S. Navy families of sailors assigned to Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City, including Alicia Kelsey.Kelsey’s son, Thatcher Rupert, a 20-year-old sailor assigned to Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron 3 — the “Ironmen” — struggled with depression and was hospitalized twice in the months leading to his death in December.…

Sydney, Australia – 1 October 2026 – DroneShield (ASX:DRO), a global leader in advanced counter-drone technologies, today announced the launch of Mission Ready Services, a comprehensive lifecycle support offering designed to help customers maintain operational readiness, accelerate operator proficiency, and maximise the long-term value of their DroneShield deployments. As counter-drone solutions become increasingly critical to military, government, public safety, critical infrastructure, and commercial security operations, organisations face a growing need to sustain capability long after procurement and initial deployment. With more than 4,100 software-enabled DroneShield devices already in the field, Mission Ready Services addresses this challenge through a unified framework…

These, it might seem, are good days for the Islamic Republic of Iran. After years of being diplomatically isolated, economically strangled, and militarily assaulted, the Iranian regime came face-to-face with its nightmare scenario—a full-blown war with Israel and Washington—and survived. The United States began bombing Iran on February 28 with the goal of destroying the country’s nuclear program, its missile program, and even its government, only to fail spectacularly at each objective. In fact, Tehran may now be stronger than it was when the war began. It successfully seized the Strait of Hormuz and shuttered it, sending energy prices skyward.…

President Donald Trump swapped out the nominee to head the Education Department inspector general office, a watchdog agency that has experienced frequent leadership turnover since the start of his second administration. On Monday, the president nominated Mark Priebe to be the Education IG. Until recently, the nominee served as the department’s acting IG. Trump withdrew the nomination of Heidi Semann, who also had a stint as acting Education IG, for the position on Sept. 17.  Priebe has been a senior official at the Education OIG since 2017 and previously worked as an auditor for other agencies. Government Executive reported when he became…

During a recent training exercise in the western Pacific, a small group of engineers single-handedly saved the day.In the scenario, adversary covert forces used first-person view drones to intercept American helicopters that were shuttling between austere forward island airbases. Some helicopters were shot down, and the rest were forced to suspend flight operations, meaning the island bases were cut off from each other and from easy resupply. Fortunately, one of the U.S. bases included a small, forward-deployed team of military engineers and their equipment. They analyzed the adversary radio control techniques and then designed and built custom self-protection radio jammers,…

VICENZA, Italy – Caserma Ederle served as the battleground for a rigorous three‑day Italian‑American partnership event, bringing together more than 50 Soldiers from the U.S. Army’s 16th Finance Battalion, 21st Theater Sustainment Command, the 529th Military Police Company, and a visiting team from the Italian Army’s NATO Rapid Deployable Corps – Italy and 33rd Reggimento Ambrosiano Sept. 23–25. What unfolded was far more than a friendly contest. It was a demanding test of strength, precision and teamwork designed to push both sides to their limits while deepening interoperability between allied forces, according to Capt. Nicholas J. Zilhaver, 16th Finance Sustainment…

In the first article in a new Armada series, we test and evaluate the forthcoming Theosight open-source intelligence tool produced by the Czech company Eos Applications.Companies and organisations often tell your correspondent how easy their hardware or software is to use, even for absolute beginners. Regrettably, Armada is not always given the chance to corroborate such claims and must take them at face value. Engineers can be reticent to place their wares in the hands of the novice they often claim to design for. This is perhaps understandable. Fears may abound that the untrained hand may irreparably damage their precious…

NEWPORT BEACH, California, 1 October 2026 – Tiberius Aerospace today, announced a $500 million technology collaboration contract to manufacture, license and distribute Sceptre, its U.S.-designed and developed precision-guided munition, marking the first scaled deployment of its Defense-as-a-Service model. Moving from desktop concept to contract in just 24 months, Sceptre demonstrates a new model for allied nations to share development risk, manufacture sovereign capability and continuously improve defense systems together.   The collaboration is supported by an International Traffic in Arms Regulations Technical Assistance Agreement between Tiberius and a consortium of U.K. technology partners, enabling authorized cooperation across engineering, technology development and…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the Pentagon’s cyber and intelligence agencies to prioritize the 2026 midterm elections, directing them to “mobilize every authorized asset, capability, and partnership under your command” to defend election infrastructure from foreign influence.The order was directed toward U.S. Cyber Command and the Defense Intelligence Enterprise in a Sept. 22 memorandum, which says the Defense Department will use its capabilities to protect the reliability of U.S. voting mechanisms from “external manipulation and disruption from foreign actors,” while maintaining the fundamental freedoms that characterize the country. The memo does not identify a specific foreign actor or any particular…

Imagine that you’re writing a new post when a reader asks a question about something you published yesterday. In WP Admin, answering it means leaving the editor, and when you come back, you need to wait for the draft to load again. With OpenStation, you can keep both open, side by side, in the same browser tab. The same goes for your media, your pages, and any other WP Admin screen. It’s the same plugin that we introduced in June as Desktop Mode, now called OpenStation. Since then, we’ve redesigned the workspace, made it faster, and begun bringing the experience…