The Air Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center has awarded four $500,000 contracts to study replacement systems for its Space Based Environmental Monitoring mission, which performs space-based cloud characterization and produces theater weather imagery. Electro Optical Vista, Millennium Space Systems,...
National Security
Two retired Air Force generals and a retired admiral told Congress Thursday that US Cyber Command and the National Security Agency should be separated. “NSA is a crucial component of the intelligence community, and I don’t believe it’s healthy for...
Retired senior military leaders told Congress Thursday the US must demonstrate its offensive cyber capabilities in order to effectively deter adversaries from launching more cyber attacks on the US. “Using an appropriate, demonstrative, offensive capability can have a wonderfully clarifying...
Despite an increasing need to grow the ranks of cyber operators in the US military, the Pentagon should not create a separate service to focus on online operations, the head of US Cyber Command told lawmakers Tuesday. Adm. Mike Rogers,...
Human personnel alone cannot adequately respond to the cyber threats facing the US military today, Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work told Congress Wednesday. “This is an area where we will not be able to solve it with people,” he...
The military will not publicly disclose a battle damage assessment or tally of ISIS fighters killed in the April 13 GBU-43 bombing of a tunnel network in eastern Afghanistan. Defense Secretary James Mattis, questioned by reporters in Egypt, said the...
The April 13 use of the GBU-43 Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb on an ISIS complex in Afghanistan resulted in 36 enemy deaths, and the decision to use the weapon came from commanders on the ground, US and Afghan officials...
The United States’ most powerful non-nuclear bomb made its combat debut Thursday when an Air Force Special Operations Command MC-130 dropped a GBU-43 Massive Ordnance Air Blast, also known as the “Mother of All Bombs,” on an ISIS stronghold in...
With the production of the Air Force’s sixth Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite, Lockheed Martin is using a 3-D printed component in one of its military satellites for the first time. The 3-D printed part is a Remote Interface Unit,...