The military must remain nonpartisan. America depends on it
Scholars of civil-military relations endlessly debate the durability of professional norms and the degree to which they reinforce the principle of civilian control of the
Evening Brief: US Army Awards Oshkosh $27.6M Contract for Medium Equipment Trailers, Coordinated Bomb and Gun Attacks Kill Seven in Colombia
Good Evening! Here’s your SOFREP Evening Brief for Wednesday, June 11, 2025, packed with the latest defense and global affairs news: The US Army gave
Army Black Hawk Pilot Found Dead in Honduras: Investigation Ongoing
The body of 1st Lt. Marciano Angelo Parisano, a 25-year-old U.S. Army Black Hawk pilot from Cibolo, Texas, was discovered on May 3, 2025, on
Why humanoid robots need their own safety rules
Last year, a humanoid warehouse robot named Digit set to work handling boxes of Spanx. Digit can lift boxes up
SecDef wants to insource work—but doesn’t understand why it was outsourced
Last month, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued contracting directives meant to increase discipline and efficiency and reduce redundancy and waste. New IT and
OpenAI launches o3-pro AI model, offering increased reliability and tool use for enterprises — while sacrificing speed
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The Netherlands provides new €400 million support package to Ukraine
The Dutch Minister of Defense, Ruben Brekelmans, has announced a new €400 million support program for Ukraine, which includes around
“People Thought This Couldn’t Be Done”: Ground-Based Telescopes Detect Echoes of “Cosmic Dawn” by Peering 13 Billion Years Back in Time
Astronomers report the first successful use of Earth-bound telescopes to peer over 13 billion years back in time to observe conditions in our universe shortly after the Big Bang, which astronomers call ‘Cosmic Dawn.’ High atop the Chilean Andes, a novel array of ground-based instruments has successfully detected faint microwave signals left behind by the universe’s first stars. This discovery pushes the limits of observational astronomy and cracks open one of the most mysterious epochs in cosmic history. The breakthrough, led by a team of Johns Hopkins University astronomers and reported in the Astrophysical Journal, marks the first time Earth-based telescopes isolated these elusive signals
“People Thought This Couldn’t Be Done”: Ground-Based Telescopes Detect Echoes of “Cosmic Dawn” by Peering 13 Billion Years Back in Time
Astronomers report the first successful use of Earth-bound telescopes to peer over 13 billion years back in time to observe conditions in our universe shortly
Look What NASA’s Mars Odyssey Orbiter Just Spotted Peeking Through an Odd Martian Cloud Formation
A Martian volcano, Arsia Mons, rises above the clouds in a stunning newly-released panoramic image captured by the Mars Odyssey Orbiter, revealing a peak higher
Scientists built a badminton-playing robot with AI-powered skills
It also learned fall avoidance and determined how much risk was reasonable to take given its limited speed. The robot did not attempt impossible plays
5 things in Trump’s budget that won’t make NASA great again
Some sections of the Trump administration’s budget proposal would funnel federal funding toward projects that have fairly broad support. Those projects include a new line
Ocean acidification crosses “planetary boundaries”
A critical measure of the ocean’s health suggests that the world’s marine systems are in greater peril than scientists had previously realized and that parts
IBM is now detailing what its first quantum compute system will look like
To address this, IBM has developed a message-passing decoder that can perform parallel evaluations of the syndrome data. The system explores more of the solution
The military must remain nonpartisan. America depends on it
Scholars of civil-military relations endlessly debate the durability of professional norms and the degree to which they reinforce the principle of civilian control of the
Meet DOGE’s team inside the Defense Department
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A Rare ‘Super-Earth’ Has Been Identified by Astronomers Using This Breakthrough Exoplanet Detection Method
Chinese and German scientists have utilized the Transit Timing Variation (TTV) technique to locate an exoplanet super-Earth for the first
“People Thought This Couldn’t Be Done”: Ground-Based Telescopes Detect Echoes of “Cosmic Dawn” by Peering 13 Billion Years Back in Time
Astronomers report the first successful use of Earth-bound telescopes to peer over 13 billion years back in time to observe conditions in our universe shortly
Look What NASA’s Mars Odyssey Orbiter Just Spotted Peeking Through an Odd Martian Cloud Formation
A Martian volcano, Arsia Mons, rises above the clouds in a stunning newly-released panoramic image captured by the Mars Odyssey Orbiter, revealing a peak higher
Magnetic Explosion Driving Space Weather Captured by NASA’s Parker Space Probe
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe detected energetic particles from a powerful magnetic explosion as it ventured through the Sun’s corona, providing new information on magnetic reconnection,
TEMPS (Transportable Electromagnetic Pulse Simulator) Final Reports, 1973
The two volumes of the TEMPS (Transportable Electromagnetic Pulse Simulator) Final Report, dated August 1973 and prepared for the Defense Nuclear Agency by Physics International
A Rare ‘Super-Earth’ Has Been Identified by Astronomers Using This Breakthrough Exoplanet Detection Method
Chinese and German scientists have utilized the Transit Timing Variation (TTV) technique to locate an exoplanet super-Earth for the first time, validating a new tool
FBI Releases Internal Emails on Comey Following FOIA Appeal Win by The Black Vault
This was originally published on November 7, 2023. The article has been left unchanged, but additional documents have been added to the document archive below.
Microsoft-backed Mistral launches European AI cloud to compete with AWS and Azure
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‘Generative AI helps us bend time’: CrowdStrike, Nvidia embed real-time LLM defense, changing how enterprises secure AI
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Wandercraft raises $75M for acceleration of AI-powered humanoid robotics and exoskeletons
Wandercraft, a maker of self-balancing robotic mobility systems, has secured $75 million in funding to accelerate AI-powered robotics. This influx of capital arrives during a time of rapid growth, increased
Lemony is a plug-and-play device for secure on-premise AI
Lemony launched a simple-looking device to deliver on-premise artificial intelligence to redefine how organizations deploy generative AI. Lemony’s secure, hardware-based node offers enterprise-grade ‘AI in a Box,’ empowering companies to
Outset raises $17M to replace human interviewers with AI agents for enterprise research
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Why most enterprise AI agents never reach production and how Databricks plans to fix it
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