An Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III ICBM launches during an operation test on February 23, 2021, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (US Space Force)
A protester flashes victory signs as traffic slows during demonstrations in Hamedan, Iran, on January 1, 2026. The demonstrations erupted after shopkeepers in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar shut their businesses to protest the sharp fall of Iran’s currency and worsening economic conditions. (Getty Images)
President Donald Trump holds up a copy of a 2025 National Trade Estimate Report as he speaks at an event at the White House on April 2, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
SpaceX, Twitter, and electric car maker Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrives for a US Senate bipartisan Artificial Intelligence Insight Forum at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on September 13, 2023. (Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
Gary Gensler Chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission arrives to testify during a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs oversight hearing to examine the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on September 12, 2023. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
The Threat Systems Management Office push a swarm of 40 drones through the National Training Center on May 8, 2019, in Fort Irwin, California. (James Newsome via DVIDS)
A Saildrone Explorer unmanned surface vessel and the guided-missile destroyer USS Delbert D. Black (DDG 119) operate in the Arabian Gulf on January 8, 2023. (US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jeremy R. Boan)
United States President Joe Biden speaks about artificial intelligence, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on July 21, 2023. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
A Blue Water Logistic Unmanned Areal System on the flight deck of the fleet replenishment oiler USNS Patuxent while the ship was underway in the Atlantic Ocean on June 10, 2023. (John Bruening via DVIDS)