Israel and Hamas once again appear to be inching toward a ceasefire that could wind down the 15-month war in Gaza and bring home dozens of Israelis held hostage there. Both Israel and Hamas are under pressure from outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump to reach a deal before the Jan. 20 inauguration. But the sides have come close before, only to have talks collapse over various disagreements.
Russia said on Jan. 6 its forces had made important gains in eastern Ukraine while continuing to fend off a new Ukrainian offensive inside the Kursk region of western Russia, where a second day of fierce fighting was under way.
Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.), chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, said a bill empowering local authorities to take down drones is a “number one” priority in the next Congress.
The Defense Department has tapped Kratos to develop a testbed for hypersonic vehicles under the Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonic Test Bed 2.0 program, the company announced Jan. 6. The other transaction authority agreement is for Task Area 1 of MACH-TB 2.0, an initiative that broadly aims to expand options for the Pentagon to demonstrate and validate hypersonic weapons and related technologies.
Military installations across the country are increasing security measures and suspending certain base visiting privileges following attacks by one current and one former service member last week in New Orleans and Las Vegas.
Boeing announced it is appointing Dana Deasy, a top Pentagon official during the first Trump administration, as the company’s new chief information digital officer and senior vice president of information technology and data analytics.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have provided an even better look at the previously secretive remote vision system that is central to the operation of the Israeli Air Force’s critical Boeing 707 tanker fleet.
More than a million U.S. military veterans who served in multiple enlistments are now eligible for an extra year of education benefits, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced on Jan. 3.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin this week will hold his final meeting of a group of about 50 countries that banded together to support Ukraine against Russia’s 2022 invasion. Austin is slated to lead Ukraine Defense Contact Group discussions Jan. 9 at Ramstein Air Base, where Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to make an appeal for more air defense systems.
Navy veteran and engineer Charles Sanna didn't invent hot chocolate, but he changed the way Americans make it. For centuries, hot drinking chocolate was a beverage of the world's elite aristocracies. Cocoa was expensive, and even as world trade in the commodity grew and made it cheaper for the masses, the process of actually making drinking chocolate was rather labor intensive. ... When Sanna realized he could turn an excess of his company's coffee creamer into instant packets for soldiers fighting in the Korean War, his invention proved an overnight sensation.
