Defense News Releases

active ▲Ingestion health: degraded Executive · Tier 1 · RSS feed · Department of Defense

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What this source is

The Department of Defense directs the armed forces and military policy. This RSS feed carries its news releases and stories — operations, contracts, and personnel announcements — as title-only items (10 most recent; no description text), with full text only on article pages that block automated clients.

Identity and registry record

Registry id

defense-newsroom

Agency / parent organization

Department of Defense

Branch

executive

Type

RSS feed

Status

active

Tier

1

URL (feed)

https://www.defense.gov/DesktopModules/ArticleCS/RSS.ashx?ContentType=1&Site=945&max=10 (opens in a new tab)

URL (home)

https://www.defense.gov/News/ (opens in a new tab)

Registered

2026-07-26

Registry notes

Probed 2026-07-26: RSS verified — 10 items with GUIDs and dates, avg description 0 chars (title-only); sample article fetch returned HTTP 403: feed accessible; article pages blocked to identified clients — feed-only ingestion candidate. Feed item links resolve to www.war.gov.

How we ingest it

Channel

RSS feed

Method

Would poll the news-release RSS feed daily for new items.

Adapter

rss-feed-only

Poll cadence

about every 60 minutes while the collector runs

Request budget

the agency class: at most 1,500 requests per day shared across every agency web source, counted from the fetch log (failed requests count too)

Politeness

robots.txt is honored as observed — including each host's crawl-delay, exactly — and every request identifies itself as fapd/0.1 (Free Agentic Publication Digester; +https://fapd.info/bot.html; contact: hustleyourcity@gmail.com); a refusal is recorded, never evaded

Capture and hash

captured raw content is hashed (SHA-256) into the day's committed provenance manifest, hash-chained day to day (PROVENANCE.md)

Ingestion health

▲Ingestion health: degraded 40 of 192 request(s) to www.defense.gov returned no content (20.8%, at or above the 10% mark).

This label has held since 2026-08-03T18:46:01Z (UTC) and was last re-checked 2026-08-03T19:51:47Z (UTC).

Counts are of our own requests, retries included. A 4xx or 5xx is the server declining to return content — that may be load, maintenance, on-demand generation, or a limit the publisher sets, and we cannot tell which from outside. Nothing here is a measurement of the publisher.

Ingestion statistics

These figures describe this project's ingestion of this source — items we recorded and requests we made — and nothing else. They are not a measurement of the publisher.

Last 24 hours

Last 14 days

All time

Last 30 days, day by day