Source: United States Spaceforce
The meeting between the two military leaders occurred after Cha flew an F-15K Slam Eagle during combined training operations between U.S. Air Force, U.S. Marines Corps, and South Korea air force fighter aircrew. The mission was part of FF 26-1, a regularly scheduled training event designed to prepare joint and combined forces for combat to defend South Korea.
Source: United States Airforce
The Department of the Air Force unveiled a $338.8 billion budget proposal, a significant boost in funding designed to sharpen readiness, continue modernizing the fleet and underwrite deterrence while ensuring that any threat to national security can be met and, if necessary, defeated.
Source: United States Navy
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of the Navy released their Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 President’s Budget request today focused on restoring American maritime dominance with a total Navy topline of $377.5B, an increase of more than $70.B compared to last year. This generational investment in our future fleet represents a 23% growth over the previous fiscal year and signals a clear commitment to the Golden Fleet Initiative, modernization and readiness.
Source: United States Navy
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES – The U.S. Navy, in partnership with NASA and U.S. Space Command, recovered the Orion space capsule and its four-person crew from the Pacific Ocean, April 10, marking the conclusion of the historic Artemis II mission.
Source: United States Navy
On a warm and windy day in May 2022, two hostile drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), suddenly popped up above McMillan Airfield at Camp Roberts, California. An AquaQuad drone was quickly dispatched from the opposite end and, no sooner than it was in position, immediately launched an automated cyber-attack from 1,000 meters against the first drone, a Parrot Bebop 2. Defeated, it sank to the ground, a gust of wind flipping it over.
Source: United States Department of Justice
The Office of Information Policy (OIP) is pleased to announce that the Technology Committee of the Chief FOIA Officers (CFO) Council, in conjunction with OIP and the Office of Government Information Services (OGIS), will host a four-day event for federal agencies called the NexGen 3.0 FOIA Tech Showcase on May 11-14, 2026.
The Showcase is intended to identify FOIA technology solutions for federal agencies in response to existing FOIA case processing and backlog challenges, as well as raise awareness of existing technological capabilities utilizing artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies. A variety of vendors will provide video demonstrations of their technology products for use in agency FOIA administration. Agency Q&A with the vendor will follow each demonstration.
This event is open to federal agency employees with a .gov or .mil email address only. Registration is required by May 7, 2026. You can register here. Additional details about the Chief FOIA Officers Council and the meeting, including the agenda, will be available on the Chief FOIA Officers Council Technology Committee website on FOIA.gov.
Source: United States Army
PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. – In a significant leap forward for battlefield technology, U.S. Army Infantry Drone Operators have successfully tested a new warhead designed to be delivered by an unmanned aerial system (UAS).
The live-fire demonstration of the Bunker Rupture and Kinetic Explosive Round (BRAKER), which took place at a Redstone Arsenal in Alabama on March 26, comes only weeks after the initial design and rapid prototyping of the system, showcasing the Army’s accelerated approach to innovation in the face of evolving threats.
The Army continuously transforms by using the latest technologies for warfighting advantage, and ensures that the force is lethal, modern and ready. The development of this air-delivered munition directly supports that mission as well as two senior leader priorities in Readiness and Transformation.
The BRAKER project, led by a team from the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Armaments Center and Project Manager Close Combat Systems (PM CCS), a project office under the U.S. Army Capability Program Executive Ammunition and Energetics (CPE A&E), aimed to create a lightweight, powerful, and lethal warhead that could be deployed from a small, agile drone.
“Our Picatinny team went from concept to live-fire in two weeks,” said Col. Vincent Morris, PM CCS. “BRAKER proves our ability to rapidly develop and safely deliver devastating effects from small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS). We are now creating the architecture with Picatinny Common Lethality Integration Kit (CLIK) and the small universal payload interface (sUPI) for industry to scale this critical warfighter advantage.”
The Picatinny CLIK is a safe and effective method for integrating lethal payloads with UAS platforms, designed and developed by DEVCOM Armaments Center engineers.
The rapid development-to-testing timeline of BRAKER was made possible by the Army’s emphasis on additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing.
Beginning in early March, Armaments Center engineers began design, explosive pressing, housing manufacture, and integration of the warhead to be used on a low-cost and expendable one-way attack drone.
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Shortly thereafter, transfer and compatibility tests were conducted at Picatinny and approximately a dozen warheads were assembled, with one being tested on a makeshift bunker on one of the installation’s test ranges.
After proving worthiness and validating effectiveness, the prototype warheads departed Picatinny for Redstone where a live demonstration was conducted for U.S. Army leadership.
The successful detonation of the device deployed on a drone on a designated target demonstrates a new and potent capability for the modern warfighter and illustrates how engineers can quickly design, fabricate, and integrate hardware to meet urgent and compelling needs.
“Rapid demonstrations of overwhelming lethality such as BRAKER are attributed to years of continued technology investments and the organic core technical competencies and facilities resident at the DEVCOM Armaments Center,” said Anthony Sebasto, Executive Director, Munitions Engineering and Technology Center.
Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
WILMINGTON, Del. – A federal grand jury returned an indictment April 7, 2026, charging a Bridgeville, Delaware man for unlawfully possessing fentanyl and an AR-15-style rifle. Lamir Faison, 21, appeared for an initial appearance on April 16, 2026, before the Honorable Laura D. Hatcher.
Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – TERRELL KELLEY (“KELLEY”), age 35, pleaded guilty on April 9, 2026, before U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan to a six-count superseding bill of information charging him with three counts of possession with intent to distribute controlled substances, two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm, possession with intent to distribute controlled substances, and one count of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced United States Attorney David I. Courcelle.
Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
Robert Lyles, a violent repeat offender with a lengthy criminal history, has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison after he fired a gun at a fellow passenger on the platform of a downtown Atlanta MARTA station. As a multi-convicted felon, Lyles was prohibited from possessing a firearm.