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The House approved a bill Thursday that will fund almost every agency in the Department of Homeland Security for the next five months, sending the measure to President Donald Trump weeks after the Senate unanimously approved it.Once the bill becomes law, it will end the shutdown that began in mid-February and has at times stalled paychecks for federal employees throughout much of the department, including those at the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Transportation Security Administration.The voice vote to pass the DHS appropriations bill finally marks an end to the annual government funding process that was supposed to be…

A ship’s bridge simulation room. Credit: Connect Images – Curated/Shutterstock.com. CAE has signed a five-year contract to provide technical support and sustainment for the Royal Australian Navy’s (RAN) naval warfare training systems. The Training Systems Technical Support (TSTS) contract will begin on 1 July 2026, with options for further extension. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more The agreement covers technical sustainment of critical training systems for Royal Australian Navy surface fleet platforms, such as bridge simulators and combat centres. CAE will offer technical…

The biggest of the aircraft planned for the Marines’ arsenal of unmanned flying logistics trucks is expected to be put through its paces at one of the Corps’ littoral regiments in the Pacific next year, officials said Tuesday.The service is “aggressively pursuing” an operational demo in 2027 for the Aerial Logistics Connector, or ALC, said Lt. Col. Ben Link, head of vertical takeoff and landing concepts for the Marines’ Cunningham Group, an aviation-focused innovation unit.“We will fight with prototypes and rapidly learn and refine our requirements,” Link told an audience at the Modern Day Marine exposition in Washington, D.C. “ALC’s…

President Donald Trump on Thursday said “probably” when asked whether he would consider pulling U.S. troops out of Italy and Spain, a day after announcing that Washington was looking at reducing the number of military personnel in Germany.Trump has harshly criticized NATO allies ​for not sending their navies to help open the Strait of Hormuz, which was closed to global shipping following the start of a U.S.-Israeli air war against Iran on February 28. He has also said that he is considering withdrawing the United States from the alliance.An internal Pentagon email, reported by Reuters last week, outlined options for…

Ukraine is leading the world in adopting drone warfare. Credit: Ukraine MoD Ukraine seeks 15,000 recruits for drone-focussed units to build a 10–15 km “kill zone” along the front. The Drone Line project is now part of the Unmanned Systems Forces, with multiple dedicated brigades/units Jobs include FPV/UAS operators plus support roles like OSINT and camouflage, trained at three specialised centres Ukraine wants to recruit 15,000 additional personnel to bolster specialised drone-equipped regiments operating across land, sea, and air domains, part of the Drone Line concept intended to establish a 15km-deep “kill zone” along the frontline. Detailing the recruitment drive in a 29 April release, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence stated that the…

The U.S. Army is looking for meatless proteins for field rations. It also wants to manufacture such proteins on the front lines to ease burdens on the supply chain. The service, according to a Sources Sought notice from the Combat Feeding Division of the Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command Soldier Center, “is exploring how the emerging alternative-protein sector can help meet several objectives, including enhancing food supply chain resilience, enabling biomanufacturing of foodstuffs in combat-forward environments, and providing tailored, high-quality nutrition to the warfighter.”Titled “Alternative Protein Technologies for Military Field Feeding,” the notice, which lists a deadline of May 15,…

Romania will now be able to acquire counter-unmanned aerial system technology through the U.S.’s counter-drone marketplace, the Army announced on Wednesday. The agreement gives the southeastern European country access to a U.S.-managed marketplace that links partner nations with counter-drone technology as part of the Pentagon’s push to speed up procurement systems that have struggled to keep pace with ever-evolving unmanned threats. The marketplace is run by the Pentagon’s Joint Interagency Task Force 401, an organization established in 2025 to centralize and speed up how the military — and partner nations — field counter-unmanned aerial system, or C-UAS, capabilities. The department…

The Marine Corps has long insisted that it needs enough amphibious ships to keep three ready groups deployed at all times, but the demand for those units is much higher than that, the service’s commandant said Thursday.Every combatant commander—from U.S. Central Command to Africa to Southern—has requested an ARG with a Marine Expeditionary Unit on board, Gen. Eric Smith told an audience at the Modern Day Marine conference in Washington, D.C. “I won’t say how many of the ARG-MEUs our combat commanders ask for, but it is well north of three,” he said. “I’ll just say that it is well north…

WASHINGTON (AP) — After weeks of delays, the House voted Thursday to fund much of the Department of Homeland Security, but not its immigration enforcement operations, and send the bipartisan package to President Donald Trump to sign, ending the longest agency shutdown in history. The White House had warned that temporary funding Trump had tapped to pay Transportation Security Administration and other agency personnel would “soon run out,” and that sparked new threats of disruptions for travelers at airport. DHS has been without routine funds since Feb. 14, causing hardship for workers, though much of Trump’s immigration agenda that is…

Catch & Build: Land of Pals lets you can build airships and explore unknown lands filled with surprises. The game offers over 10 classes, 8 major terrains, almost 100 different Pal types, home construction, vibrant visuals, and more. Joy Nice Games has announced the launch of their new strategic monster-catching adventure title, Catch & Build: Land of Pals, now available on Android. There is currently no information available yet regarding the iOS release. Catch and evolve unique Pals to build a home and battle others So, Catch & Build: Land of Pals is a new free-roaming monster-catching game set in a…