The United States is set to enter 2024 with its smallest military in more than eight decades and faces one of its ‘greatest challenges’ as it tries to boost recruiting from Gen Z, Pentagon officials said. Under the $886 billion annual defense bill passed by Congress this week total active-duty […]
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WASHINGTON – The 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman who posted highly sensitive Pentagon documents online was privy to weekly intelligence briefings — despite the fact that he was only meant to maintain HVAC units and answer phones, according to a bombshell Air Force investigation. The access given Jack Teixeira was […]
It’s an itty-bitty spaceplane, not quite 30 feet long and under 10 feet tall, with a pair of stubby wings and a rounded, bulldog-like nose. But despite its diminutive size – it looks like a miniature version of the space shuttle – the Pentagon’s most mysterious spacecraft, known as the […]
WASHINGTON — The creation of the U.S. Space Force has helped streamline fragmented space acquisition organizations, but the Pentagon is still not equipped to procure next-generation space systems at the pace required to maintain dominance, according to a new report by the Defense Business Board. The Defense Business Board is […]
A senior Pentagon official who oversaw federally operated school systems in the Americas has been arrested in a Georgia human-trafficking sting. The Coweta County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) last week announced the arrests of 26 people, including Stephen Hovanic, former chief of staff for the Americas division of the Department of Defense Education […]
WASHINGTON — Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks, who has spearheaded Pentagon efforts to bring cutting-edge technology into defense programs, is overseeing the military’s first commercial space integration strategy. The new strategy comes as the Pentagon seeks to tap into advancements in commercial space technology to maintain an advantage over China, […]
Congress has put pressure on the Defense Department to eliminate PFAS But the DoD argues that PFAS is essential to its kit, weapons and vehicles READ MORE: Minnesota poised to be first US state to ban ‘forever chemicals’ By Caitlin Tilley, Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com Published: 21:25 GMT, 20 November […]
U.S. European Command (EUCOM) said that the unspecified aircraft was conducting a training operation and ‘suffered a mishap and went down’ The accident happened on Friday night in the eastern Mediterranean: the Pentagon has not confirmed whether there were any fatalities EUCOM said that there was no sign that the […]