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B-21 first flew November 2023 with a second jet in test during 2024. The ramp priced into the Air Force budget now rests on test evidence — and the full-rate decision date is unstated.
A primer on the Pentagon's Freedom of Navigation Program, the legal claims it contests, and how a single operation is planned and executed.
Federal testing finds error rates that swing from under 1 percent to double digits depending on the algorithm and the face — a gap the technology's own overseers are still working to manage.
How Miller v. Alabama, Montgomery v. Louisiana, and Jones v. Mississippi reshaped juvenile life sentences, and what remains constitutional in 2026.
SNAP eligibility runs on income and asset tests set by Washington but applied through your state; here's what the current federal rules say, what changed in 2026, and how the application actually works.
GAO's latest review of nearly five decades of stopgap funding finds the same pattern every time: schedule delays, cost growth, and administrative drag across programs from the Amphibious Combat Vehicle to the F-35.
Stopgap funding freezes weapons programs at last year's levels and bars new starts, and the compliance costs surface long after the shutdown threat that triggered it fades.
S. Navy surface combatant or submarine follows a fixed sequence of ceremonies and milestones, each marking a documented stage of the shipbuilding process.
The Missile Defense Agency's hit-to-kill interceptor has an unbroken public test record. What it doesn't have, per a CSIS assessment reported by Breaking Defense, is enough spare rounds until production catches up in 2027.
Federal testing finds top facial-recognition algorithms highly accurate on balanced photo sets, and far less reliable across race, age, and sex — a gap behind a string of real wrongful arrests.
Social Security's annual raise is a formula, not a vote in Congress. Here is how the calculation works and what it means for the benefit increase that took effect in January 2026.
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A 2024 rule set a firm technical standard for state and local government websites; a 2026 extension pushed compliance back a year without changing what the standard demands.
The century-old cabotage law sets three conditions for domestic shipping and has become a fixture in debates over the health of the shipyards the Navy depends on.
The foreign military sales system runs on a fixed document chain, not politics, and by the Pentagon's own watchdog account it is that chain, not any single decision, that turns an uncontroversial sale into a multiyear wait.
Bail is not a fine or a punishment — it's a court's mechanism for balancing a defendant's presumed innocence against the risk of flight, built on a federal framework and a patchwork of state processes.
8% raise for 2026 wasn't a vote or a guess. Here's the government formula behind every Social Security COLA, and what it changed this year.
The statutory conditions, approval thresholds and follow-on production path behind the Pentagon's fastest-growing contracting instrument — and the data gaps GAO says still obscure it.
A guide to the Navy's Virginia-class fast-attack submarine program, its two-shipyard construction partnership, and its status through the July 2026 contract award and the August 2026 fleet-tasking milestone for USS Massachusetts (SSN-798).
A shutdown is not a light switch Washington flips on and off. It is a legal chain reaction set in motion by one missed deadline, one 1870s-era statute, and a narrow set of exceptions that decide who keeps working and who does not.
The Secretary of the Navy makes the final choice, working from recommendations staffed by the Naval History and Heritage Command, under a naming authority that federal law barely defines.
A single arms sale runs through a legally defined pipeline of requests, offers, and congressional review windows before a single interceptor ships, and the numbers behind that pipeline are public.
Under the Bail Reform Act, release is the default and detention is what the government must argue for — here is the sequence, the burdens of proof, and what the federal data show about who is held.
A look at the federal sign-in system used by USAJOBS, Global Entry, and other agencies, and what auditors have found about how it's run.
Multiyear authority buys the industrial base a stable demand signal and costs the services their flexibility, with savings estimates that GAO has questioned since 2008.
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