Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. highlighted the “catastrophic” implications if the Air Force does not change fast enough to keep up with China but added that recent public information about China’s buildup of intercontinental ballistic missile silos will help generate ...
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Law enforcement officials identified both the officer killed and the suspect who died in the Aug. 3 attack at a bus stop outside the Pentagon. Officials also announced that a civilian bystander was injured during the incident.
Commander of U.S. Space Command Gen. James H. Dickinson drew parallels to the vital role of tiny Pacific islands in a vast ocean in describing his role protecting space lines of communication from increasing pressure by adversaries. Barring internationally accepted norms, Dickinson called for the ...
A Pentagon Force Protection Agency officer reportedly died of stab wounds, and the attacker was shot and killed by responding officers, on Aug. 3 at a bus stop outside the Pentagon. At 10:37 a.m., the Pentagon police officer was attacked at the metro bus platform ...
The U.S. must adapt to the "changing character of war" or face "devastating consequences," Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark A. Milley said Aug. 2. Milley said at least 40 to 50 new technologies, including unmanned systems and artificial intelligence, are ...
The Air Force Research Laboratory is looking for contractors to build a fieldable high-powered microwave counter-drone system to defend air bases, AFRL announced July 29. It will spend $20 million on the program, the prototype for which it wants in 2023. The program is called ...
The effectiveness of the Afghan Air Force is already dropping even before U.S. and coalition forces complete their withdrawal from the country, with the majority of its airframes losing readiness last month. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction on July 28 released its latest ...
America’s partners and allies will increasingly help foot the bill and strengthen U.S. Space Force capabilities, Vice Chief of Space Operations Space Force Gen. David D. Thompson said during a virtual Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies event July 28. “That has changed dramatically in the ...
U.S. Northern Command boss Air Force Gen. Glen D. VanHerck said U.S. Space Command played a critical role in a recently completed exercise that used artificial intelligence across all 11 combatant commands to provide deterrence options in a logistics-restricted environment. The experiment, the third in ...
