The Pic of the Day: New Mars lander ‘InSight’ spotted from space

The Pic of the Day: New Mars lander ‘InSight’ spotted from space

Per NASA’s press release: On Nov. 26, NASA’s InSight mission knew the spacecraft touched down within an 81-mile-long (130-kilometer-long) landing ellipse on Mars. Now, the team has pinpointed InSight’s exact location using images from HiRISE, a powerful camera onboard another NASA spacecraft, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). The InSight lander, its heat shield and parachute were […]

The Pic of the Day: Divers continue searching for missing WWII personnel

The Pic of the Day: Divers continue searching for missing WWII personnel

U.S. Navy Diver 1st Class James Mostek, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Company ONE-SIX, embarked aboard USNS Salvor (T-ARS 52), waits on a diving stage during a two-hour decompression stop after diving to 240 feet off the coast of Madang, Papua New Guinea, Dec. 7, 2018. The sailor is completing a Defense POW/MIA Accounting […]

The Pic of the Day: FLOTUS aboard the USS George H.W. Bush

The Pic of the Day: FLOTUS aboard the USS George H.W. Bush

First Lady Melania Trump, joined by U.S. Navy Capt. Chris Hill, interacts with sailors on the bridge of USS George H.W. Bush Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018, during a holiday visit to the aircraft carrier.   (Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks)   See footage of the First Lady visiting servicing members and their families […]

The Pic of the Day: Coast Guard dive operations under the Artic ice

The Pic of the Day: Coast Guard dive operations under the Artic ice

Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Adam Harris, a member of a joint Coast Guard-Navy dive team deployed on the Coast Guard Cutter Healy, holds a Coast Guard ensign during a cold water ice dive off a Healy small boat in the Arctic, July 29, 2017. The joint dive team successfully completed the first shipboard […]

The Pic of the Day: Service members’ remains return from the Philippines

The Pic of the Day: Service members’ remains return from the Philippines

Members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) conduct an honorable carry for the remains of unidentified U.S. service members at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Dec. 8, 2018. The remains were recently disinterred from graves at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in the Philippines as part of DPAA’s effort to identify personnel that […]

Domestic security and critical infrastructure protection

One thing NEWSREP strives to maintain coverage on is domestic security.  National security IS domestic security.  If a country fails to protect a factory in one of its hometowns, its national defense apparatus is effectively moot. Although Federal attention has been paid to critical infrastructure since 1996, on a national strategic scale, critical infrastructure and […]

What do we do with our stealth aircraft after we’re through with them?

What do we do with our stealth aircraft after we’re through with them?

In 2008, the Pentagon sent the first operational stealth combat jet, the F-117A Nighthawk, out to pasture — or at least, sort of. The F-117 flew as an entirely classified program for years before ever being acknowledged by the U.S. Air Force as an operational program in the 1980s, allowing a generation of young Americans […]

Pentagon: US military overdependent on China for critical components

Pentagon: US military overdependent on China for critical components

Washington, D.C., United States—In the coming weeks, the Department of Defense (DoD) will release a study examining the U.S. military’s dependence on foreign countries. The study will focus on critical military materials and their providers. The ultimate aim will be to limit or eliminate dependence on foreign firms or countries that could prove adversaries in […]

US’ trade wars bolster China’s global military expansion

US’ trade wars bolster China’s global military expansion

China’s rapidly expanding Navy has, thus far, been primarily concerned with the sovereignty of the South China Sea. Their growing “green water” fleet is capable of asserting a great deal of authority within the regional (and globally important) waterway. China, however, still lacks the logistics and vessels to field a globally capable Navy like that […]