The Air Force’s Force Protection Battlelab has created a prototype device—the simplified automated ventilator, or SAVe—to aid medics in the field. A medic in the field can quickly set up the portable battery-powered ventilator to help one wounded troop breathe, while the medic tends to another life-threatening injury. The new battlefield medical device is just one of several the battlelab, based at Lackland AFB, Tex., has produced or has in the works. Read more here.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth vowed to undertake far-reaching reforms on the way the U.S. military buys weapons, promising a sweeping overhaul of the way the Defense Department determines requirements, handles the acquisition process, and tests its kit. The fundamental goal, which Hegseth underscored in a 1-hour and 10-minute speech…
