Chemring warns annual forecasts will rely on the US Department of Defense approving a £25m order Chemring is waiting for the US DoD to approve ‘countermeasure deliveries’ The Hampshire-based firm’s order book stood at £829m at the end of August Its portfolio of products includes IED detectors, flares and aircraft […]
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A thunderous explosion heard across the Washington Metropolitan area on Sunday afternoon was a sonic boom from a Department of Defense aircraft, according to officials. Rattled residents took to Twitter to report hearing some sort of explosion in the area at around 3 p.m. on Sunday. “There is no threat […]
Latino members of Congress are pushing for a U.S. Army base to be named after a Latino military hero and for a greater recognition of the role of Hispanics in the nation’s defense. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus and several members of the House Armed Services Committee sent a letter April 12 […]
With “Baby Shark” setting the mood on the way to preschool, my 3-year-old son innocently asked from the back seat one day, “What do Mommy and Daddy do for work?” The question stumped me for a minute. How do you explain to your toddler that you shape and pursue policy […]
“We’re a bit stranded over here,” Emily Starbuck Gerson, a military spouse based at Royal Air Force Lakenheath Air Force Base in England, said. “The UK and Europe has been much stricter in how they handled COVID, so a lot of us has been under these onerous lockdowns … we’re […]
A surgeon removes a tumor visible on a monitor. Accelerating cancer treatments would be one goal of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Health that President Joe Biden has proposed creating. Matt Rourke/AP By Jocelyn KaiserApr. 9, 2021 , 5:30 PM The Biden administration today began to flesh out a proposal for […]
TAMPA, Fla. — CAES, the former electronics unit of British defense and aerospace contractor Cobham, has forged an alliance to bring Swiss 3D printed satellite RF technology to the U.S. market. Arlington, Virginia-based CAES (formerly known as Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions) is partnering with Switzerland-based additive manufacturing specialist Swissto12 to […]
A robot takeover is the plot of many science fiction films, but a video shared on Twitter has some believing the idea may not be too farfetched. A user shared a clip from Chinese-based Unitree robotics firm that shows a squadron of four-legged machines moving in unison. The AI-powered, canine-like […]