Image from: Declassified UK By Harry Davies and Rob Evans with graphics by Ana Lucia Gonzalez Paz and Andrew Witherspoon, Published by The Guardian, 12 April 2026 War with Iran has brought 15 American sites across the UK countryside firmly into the spotlight They are dotted across the UK countryside,
By Mark Pomerleau, Published by Breaking Defense, 25 March 2026 A military exercise known as Southern Star integrates across space and cyber domains. Credit: U.S. Space Command A report by several national intelligence agencies offers mitigations to protect against cyberattacks on LEO satellite constellations. WASHINGTON — As more and more
By David Dimolefetta, Published by Defense One, 10 March 2026 Gen. Joshua Rudd has spent his career largely in special operations and joint command roles. The Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump’s pick to lead Cyber Command and the National Security Agency in a dual-hatted capacity, giving the signals intelligence
By David Dimolfeta, Published by Defense One, 2 December 2025 The exact size of the agency’s workforce is not publicly known, but a fact sheet distributed by Maryland last year put it at 39,000. The National Security Agency recently fulfilled a goal to shed around 2,000 employees, according to three people
Pro-Palestinian protesters set up a blockade outside the Pine Gap military facility. (ABC News: Alex Barwick) By Ben Doherty, Published by The Guardian, 26 October 2025 A protest over Pine Gap’s claimed role in genocide has refocused attention on the secretive US satellite base near Alice Springs Straight and bare,
By Faris Tanyos, Published by CBS News, 4 April 2025 Gen. Timothy Haugh, the head of both the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, has been fired by the Trump administration, the top Democrats on the House and Senate intelligence committees confirmed late Thursday night, along with a source
By Ivan Amato, Published by Spectrum IEEE, 21 January 2025 The Parcae project revolutionized electronic eavesdropping In the early 1970s, the Cold War had reached a particularly frigid moment, and U.S. military and intelligence officials had a problem. The Soviet Navy was becoming a global maritime threat—and the United States
Australia hosts the US’s Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap (codename Rainfall) run by the CIA, NSA and Australia’s ASD, located just outside of Alice Springs in Australia’s central desert. Pine Gap hosts the NSA’s XKeyScore surveillance facility used to monitor military, diplomatic, economic communications in countries ranging from the Pacific
