The Department of Defense is still failing to safeguard the electronic health records of top government officials, according to a new watchdog report.In 2021, a DoD Inspector General audit found that snoopers were able to access the protected health information, or PHI, of “well-known DOD personnel.” Meanwhile, the Department of Veterans Affairs found that VA staff — often out of simple curiosity — had improperly accessed records of then-vice presidential candidates J.D. Vance and Tim Walz.The Defense Health Agency has since tightened access to health records of well-known personnel, according to a follow-up DOD IG audit published Monday. But what…

The Navy’s highest-ranking officer told sailors during a town hall on Monday that it would be a while before the service would return to its main logistics hub in the Middle East after it was heavily damaged early in the Iran war.Answering a displaced service member’s question about retrieving personal goods from the base they previously called home, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle said the Navy would not be using Naval Support Activity Bahrain for the foreseeable future. “We’re not getting back in there anytime soon,” Caudle said. “I just want to be completely honest with that.”On Feb.…

We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn More › Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. Cabela’s Labor Day Sale runs now through September 9, discounting more than 1,700 items — but not every “Save $X” tag is actually a good deal once you check it against the rest of the market. We pulled out the four that are a product Outdoor Life’s editors have personally tested and recommended, and one we verified is priced at or below what it costs anywhere…

American Rheinmetall delivered the first Lynx XM30 prototype to the Army this week, the company said in a Tuesday statement, the latest move in the service’s yearslong effort to replace the M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle.The vehicle is slated to start testing, while seven additional prototypes are scheduled for delivery later this year. The evaluation is part of a roughly $764 million Engineering and Manufacturing Development contract intended to take the vehicle from digital design through validation. The Lynx XM30 was created for a battlefield increasingly shaped by drones and electronic warfare, according to the company, and its design features modular,…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics David Ashman of Mohnton, Pennsylvania was on vacation at Hatteras, North Carolina and booked a day of saltwater fishing aboard the Miss Hatteras party boat on July 31. “I’ve fished from party boats all my life, and about once a year I sign up for a day on the Miss Hatteras,” Ashman told Outdoor Life. “I always book trips alone and meet some nice folks from other places when I’m on a head boat.” Ashman, 63, has fished on party boats from Washington State to the…

The U.S. Navy this week unveiled an array of new specifications for its future carrier-based Combat Collaborative Aircraft, or CCA. While the service did not detail the aircraft’s combat radius, the Aug. 31 Request for Information did note that the service wants the CCA to carry up to 5 tons of weapons and cost no more than $30 million per unit. The service has set a response deadline of Sept. 18. Prospective contractors are asked to “provide the maximum combat radius including weapons loadout, 30 minutes on-station and reserve fuel for safe recovery that the proposed solution can perform.” While…

Sign up for This Happened to Me News on backcountry adventure and wilderness survival. all make mistakes. It’s only human. But what happens when our mistakes are combined with treacherous conditions in the outdoors? What happens when our blunders combine into a series of unfortunate events? Here we’ll look at the conditions and thought processes that get people into trouble, and the simple mistakes that could turn a small mishap into a life threatening situation. Going Alone Maybe no one was free on the afternoon you wanted to hike or scout that new hunting location. Maybe you just wanted some…

For the U.S. military, artificial intelligence tools help analysts turn enormous amounts of data into something actionable, like when to strike a target or where to position troops. The goal, as military officials and industry executives often describe it, is to give commanders the information they need to make consequential decisions as quickly as possible.But no matter how fast or accurate the analysis is, there’s still a gap between identifying what needs to happen and acting on it. Much of that AI processing happens on computers and servers miles from the battlefield, leaving troops to receive the information through radios,…

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