The Coast Guard is detecting a new trend among high-seas narco smugglers

Since June, Coast Guard vessels patrolling the US’s southern approaches have stopped seven low-profile smuggling vessels — stealthy ships that ride low in the water to spirit illicit cargos from South America to Mexico and the US. Akin to self-propelled semi-submersibles used by smugglers for the same purpose, low-profile vessels are boats designed to run near […]

Call of Duty: Navy adds X-Box 360 controllers to submarine periscopes

When most people think of submarine periscopes, they tend to picture a shaft extending down from the ceiling the sub’s bridge, through which the captain may peer out over the surface of the water, spinning the periscope with his body, as he moves left to right.  The reality of modern periscopes, however, is quite a […]

CEO catches stranger after hours, prompting espionage charges

Samuel Straface thought he was the last one out the door one recent evening at the medical-technology startup he leads in suburban Boston. But as he passed a glass-walled conference room on the second floor, Dr. Straface says he saw a man he didn’t recognize, sitting by himself in front of two open laptops and […]

Hurricanes on display from space

The hurricane season continues in full force adding Jose, Maria and maybe Lee! Maria is heading straight towards Puerto Rico as a category 5 storm. NOAA’s GOES-16 captured this geocolor image of Hurricanes Jose and Maria and Tropical Depression Lee simultaneously churning through the Atlantic Ocean on Sept. 18. – Space.com Featured image by NOAA This article is […]

Senate votes to approve massive $700 billion in 2018 defense spending

The U.S. Senate passed its own version of the new defense budget on Monday, surpassing even President Trump’s requests for an increase in funding to bolster the nation’s military.  Although the chamber is Republican controlled, the $700 billion defense policy bill received support from both sides of the aisle on its way to an 89-8 […]

Senators ask Equifax how it will help US service members hit by data breach

Sens. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., and Dean Heller, R-Nev., have asked credit monitoring service Equifax to explain how it is protecting the 1.3 million active-duty servicemembers affected by a massive data breach this year. The senators sent Equifax CEO Richard F. Smith a letter on Tuesday asking the company to share its plan to help members […]

Now it’s Hurricane Maria, and Caribbean braces for new hit

MEXICO CITY — Oh, no. Not again. This was the general sentiment across a broad area of the eastern Caribbean on Sunday as residents, some still sifting through the wreckage left by Hurricane Irma, braced for the impact of yet another powerful storm stalking them in the Atlantic Ocean. Hurricane Maria was rumbling toward the Lesser […]

Engineer who sold military secrets to phony Russian spy sentenced to 5 years in prison

A satellite engineer who sold military secrets to an undercover FBI agent he believed to be a Russian spy was sentenced Monday to five years in federal prison. In handing down the punishment for Gregory Allen Justice, U.S. District Judge George H. Wu added a few months to what sentencing guidelines recommended, saying he found the crimes […]

Four female Boston College students attacked with acid in France

Four American college students were the victims of an acid attack at a train station in Marseilles, southern France, on Sunday.  All four victims were female, two of whom were taken two a nearby hospital, with the other two treated for shock, according to a spokeswoman for the Prefecture of Police of Bouches-du-Rhône. According to […]

News Roundup: IED in London, training accidents hit the military hard, fake food alert

This is how he repaid the infidels: A second suspect was arrested on Saturday in connection with the subway attack at London’s Parsons Green station that left 30 people injured, officials announced on Sunday as the city’s terror threat level is downgraded to “severe.” A 21-year-old man was arrested late Saturday night in Hounslow in […]

Watch: More aerial footage of Hurricane Irma storm damage from Key West

Aerial footage from an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the Dragon Whales of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 28, surveying damage caused by Hurricane Irma in the Florida Keys. The Department of Defense is supporting FEMA, the lead federal agency, in helping those affected by Hurricane Irma to minimize suffering and is one component of […]