Peter Suciu

3 days ago | forbes.com | Peter Suciu

French President Emmanuel Macron has responded to claims that he and other European leaders were using drugs while on a train to Ukraine. A video circulated on social media on Sunday after some users with ties to Russia said it showed the French president, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer trying to hide a white object that was actually a bag of cocaine.

4 days ago | news.clearancejobs.com | Peter Suciu

Space may be the final frontier, but the command and control systems for critical missile warning and tracking satellites are still Earthbound. That fact was made clear after Northrop Grumman was recently awarded an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) $244 million contract from the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific, on behalf of the Space Systems Command. It will provide the United States Space Force with additional advanced relay ground stations, both in the U.S. and in the UK.

1 week ago | news.clearancejobs.com | Peter Suciu

Beginning as early as next week, the United States Air Force could resume accepting the Boeing KC-46 aerial refueling and strategic military transport aircraft, which is based on the 767 jet airliner. Deliveries were halted in February after the service discovered cracks in the “outboard fixed fixed-trailing-edge support structure.” The aerospace giant announced that it had identified the root cause of the issues, and has begun the process to resume deliveries.

1 week ago | forbes.com | Peter Suciu

On Thursday afternoon, the papal conclave elected a new pope. Chicago-born Cardinal Francis Prevost will now serve as the leader of the 1.4 billion-member Roman Catholic Church. The new pontiff, who was chosen on just the second day of the conclave and the first American to lead the church in its 2,000-year history, took the name Leo XIV. The selection of Prevost was seen as a surprise by some, due to the United States' status as a superpower, as well as some of his more liberal views.

1 week ago | news.clearancejobs.com | Peter Suciu

President Donald Trump campaigned on cutting the size of the federal government while reducing waste and fraud. According to the Office of Management and Budget, the Trump administration has sought to cut the fiscal year 2026 (FY26) overall federal budget to less than $1.7 trillion, or roughly a 7% decrease from the fiscal year 2025 (FY25) budget. Numerous agencies can expect to see their budgets slashed. However, the Department of Defense (DoD) could expect to see a marked increase for FY26.