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An unauthorized vehicle attempted to enter the headquarters of U.S. Strategic Command (Stratcom) Thursday night, prompting gunshots and a lockdown before the driver backed away and left the base. Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, which is home to Stratcom, said the unknown vehicle tried to enter the main gate of the facility at 10 p.m. Offutt security forces activated a barrier system that prevented the vehicle from entering, forcing the individual to turn around. Security also fired shots at the vehicle before it fled the scene, according to the base, and a lockdown was initiated out of an abundance...

Hussein Mousavian headlined STRATCOM's Deterrence Symposium U.S. military leaders earlier this month hosted a former top Iranian official who came under fire last year for bragging about the hardline regime’s efforts to assassinate American leaders. U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) tapped Hussein Mousavian, a former member of Iran’s nuclear negotiating team who works as a Middle East security and nuclear policy specialist at Princeton University, to headline its 2023 Deterrence Symposium, a high-level powwow that brought the former Iranian official shoulder-to-shoulder with America’s top military brass. Mousavian’s appearance at the mid-August gathering, which came to light on Monday after STRATCOM posted...

For Education and Discussion Only. This article is not posted on the Herald/Review web site, but was transcribed by the poster.One deliveryman was turned over to the INS, the other three released. FORT HUACHUCA – Of the four Russians who were stopped at the post’s Main Gate Monday morning attempting to drive a tractor-trailer truck on to the fort, one has been taken into custody by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service and the other three released, according to the installation’s spokeswoman. Fort officials first thought they were Arabs, and then Armenians, before they determined the men were Russians, LTC...

DES MOINES, Iowa – On September 19, 2019, a federal grand jury returned an Indictment charging defendants, Jessica Rae Reznicek and Ruby Katherine Montoya, with one count of conspiracy to damage an energy facility, four counts of use of fire in the commission of a felony, and four counts of malicious use of fire, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Montoya was recently arrested in the District of Arizona and detained pending court proceedings to determine her appearance in the Southern District of Iowa. Reznicek appeared in Des Moines on October 1, 2019 and was conditionally released pending trial. Trial...

The U.S. Air Force is preparing to put nuclear-armed bombers back on 24-hour ready alert, a status not seen since the Cold War ended in 1991 according to a report released Sunday by Defense One. “If the order comes, the B-52s will return to a ready-to-fly posture not seen since the Cold War,” reported Marcus Weisgerber, global business editor for the industry publication, noting that “long-dormant” runway areas on certain bases could once again be a home to fully loaded B-52s, ready to fly at a moment’s notice. “This is yet one more step in ensuring that we’re prepared,” Gen....

Inspectors have discovered mold growing in heating and air conditioning ducts of the $1.2 billion U.S. Strategic Command headquarters under construction at Offutt Air Force Base. The discovery of the mold, in September, has halted further work on the HVAC system in the massive structure, said Matt Bird, senior project manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which is overseeing the job. Other work continues at the 80-acre construction site, he said, but the mold-infested sections of ductwork will have to be removed. Military officials say the contractor, not the government, will have to pay for the extra work.

BELLEVUE, Neb. —KETV News received an exclusive tour of the U.S. Strategic Command building at Offutt Air Force Base Stratcom hasn’t given many tours since 9/11. While officials invited KETV to take the tour, cameras were not allowed for most of it. While visiting the Global Operations Center, KETV crew members were the first people outside the Department of Defense to see its War Gaming Center. The center's mission is to detect, deter and prevent attacks against the United States. Officials provided KETV with some video they shot, but said they won’t be in that building for much longer. To...

On June 3rd, Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Neb) organizeda congressional field hearing near Offutt Air Force base in Nebraska, home of the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM). The purpose of the gathering was to highlight the role of STRATCOM to justify building a new headquarters facility. STRATCOM A mission statement from the STATCOM Website reads as follows: “Detect, deter, and prevent attacks against the United States and our allies – join with the other combatant commands to defend the nation should deterrence fail.” Among its priorities are to deter nuclear attacks, maintain cyber security and respond to new challenges in space.During...

Note: The following text is a quote: Officials Warn of ‘Phishing’ Scams Targeting Troops By Lisa Daniel American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, May 10, 2010 – U.S. Strategic Command officials are urging renewed vigilance against Internet-based identity theft after detecting a widespread “phishing” expedition against servicemembers. Phishing is a term used to describe deceiving people into divulging personal information such as passwords or account numbers over the Internet. Beginning as early as May 2009 and lasting as late as March 2010, numerous fraudulent e-mails were sent to financial customers of USAA and Navy Federal Credit Union, Stratcom officials said in...

Politics: If the Democrats' stitched-together Frankenstein monster of health care reform gets the 60 votes to get through the Senate, it will have been done through an assortment of bribes and brass knuckles. (snip) Sen. Ben Nelson, a Nebraska Democrat, has also been critical of the buy-in and public option, but he has an additional issue about whatever comes out of the Senate not involving public funding of abortion in any way. Michael Goldfarb on the Weekly Standard blog quotes a Senate aide as saying the White House is now threatening to put Nebraska's Offutt Air Force Base on the...

Posted in Intelligence, International, Policy, Space The man at the pointy end of the spear of missile defense and of nuclear weapons warned today that the US must carefully weigh any increase in missile defense — particularly on the west coast — to avoid triggering a “destabilizing” reaction by the Peoples Republic of China. “We have to be cautious about missile defense…[which] can be destabilizing if you are not careful,” said Air Force Gen. Kevin Chilton, commander of Strategic Command and one of the military’s brightest brains. When the US places anti-ballistic missile assets on the West Coast, “What does...

GN’s 2008 Space Conference April 11-13, 2008 Omaha, Nebraska See: Agenda Conference Brochure (735KB PDF file) | Conference Flyer (465 PDF file) In 2008, the Global Network will hold its 16th Annual Space Organizing Conference and Protest outside this Strategic Command. Hundreds of people from around the world will come to Omaha from April 11 – 13, 2008 to learn first-hand about this military installation that operates in America’s heartland. For the first time, world citizens will gather to shine a light on what StratCom has become. Located in the heart of the nation, just south of Omaha, Nebraska, the...

"The Iranian nuclear program crisis is currently presenting the greatest challenge to the national security strategy of the Bush Administration. Strategists, diplomats and policy makers are all hard at work trying to craft a course of action and an international coalition that will dissuade and/or prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons... So absent military action and the West’s acquiescence to a nuclear armed Iran, can Iran be deterred from proliferating nuclear weapons and associated technology? Can we be assured they won’t pass one to a proxy? The answer is no, at least as current US strategies are crafted..."

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Mini-nukes on US agenda by Paul Reynolds BBC News Online world affairs correspondent A two-day conference to plan the future of the American nuclear arsenal, including the development of so-called mini-nukes, is being held this week at StratCom, the headquarters of US Strategic Command in Nebraska. The Bush administration appears determined to build a new generation of small nuclear weapons, especially "earth penetrators", designed to attack nuclear, chemical or biological materials buried deep underground. A new form of warfare is coming. It is the extension into the nuclear field of the highly accurate conventional bombs and missiles already in use....

NACOGDOCHES, Tex., Feb. 8 -- Defense Department radar shows an object or material coming off the shuttle Columbia as it orbited Earth about one day after its Jan. 16 launch from Florida, NASA officials confirmed late today. This kind of signal could represent a meteoroid impact, but NASA spokesman Kyle Herring, in Houston, emphasized that its true significance is not yet known. "The Department of Defense has provided the report to NASA, and we're assessing it." ... A report earlier had warned of possible serious damage from a meteoroid impact on the leading edge of a shuttle wing, and such...