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Patriot runs one multifunction radar and two opposite kill philosophies — PAC-2 fragmentation and PAC-3 hit-to-kill. A mechanism explainer built from official documents and hedged manufacturer claims.
2 percent on clear photos but 10-100 times more often in police-style conditions and for some demographic groups. Here is what the record shows.
Milestone B, LRIP, full-rate production: how the gated acquisition system moves a weapon from a validated requirement to fielding, and why GAO keeps finding the same delays.
A CR freezes last year's budget, blocks new starts, and hides real decisions in anomaly clauses. The machinery of the stopgap, explained from the CRS record.
SNAP gives a monthly grocery benefit on an EBT card. Here is how eligibility, the application steps, and annual amount changes work, and where to get the official answer.
More than 70 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers serve the US Navy as of 2024. A sourced guide to the class, its flights, builders, and program status.
Army budget documents and manufacturer announcements agree: interceptor output, not new launchers, is the binding constraint on air defense. What's claimed, what's verifiable, what to watch.
The FBI's 2023 statistics show violent crime down 3 percent and murder down about 11 percent. Here is what the count rests on, and what it cannot tell us.
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.
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.
The FAR Council's first four overhaul rules, published June 23, 2026, would rewrite federal procurement under EO 14275. Here is what changes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Pentagon financial audit explained: who audits, what a disclaimer of opinion means, and why DoD keeps failing since 2018.
The Congressional Review Act's power sits in a 60-day clock and a 10-hour Senate debate cap, not in the vote itself.
A signature, a sealed container, and a log entry at every handoff: the paperwork that decides whether a gun, a drug sample, or a DNA swab can be used against someone in court.
A 2011 double-blind test of more than 169 examiners put numbers on a method courts had relied on for a century — and the numbers cut both ways.
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