# thebotwire.com US Department of Defense News Feed

> thebotwire.com US Department of Defense News Feed is a paid API for AI agents from thebotwire.com, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Fetches the latest US Department of Defense news releases covering military operations, contract awards, and official statements

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://thebotwire.com/defense/latest
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/thebotwire-com-us-department-of-defense-news-feed-663826a5
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_XlC5bb6k6YTvmc9mrP1W7

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability thebotwire-com-us-department-of-defense-news-feed-663826a5
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest DoD news releases from the past 24 hours — up to 20 results — and flag anything related to contract awards.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need authoritative, official US military and defense news directly from DoD sources — ideal for government monitoring agents, defense procurement trackers, policy compliance tools, or any workflow requiring verified Pentagon-sourced announcements rather than third-party press coverage.

## Known failure modes

- No results returned if search query is too narrow or no items exist in the requested freshness window
- Rate limiting or payment failure if x402 payment is not completed correctly
- Invalid 'since' format returns an error (must be e.g. 30m, 2h, 24h, 3d)
- Limit out of bounds (must be 1–50) causes validation error
- Source filter typo (only 'dod' is valid) causes schema rejection

## How this service works

US Department of Defense news releases for defense and government agents: operations, contract awards and official statements.

## Output

A list of DoD news release items including titles, publication timestamps, source attribution (dod), and article content or summaries, filtered by optional search terms and freshness window.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/thebotwire-com-us-department-of-defense-news-feed-663826a5/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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