The US-led coalition on March 17 targeted an ISIS facility believed to be connected with chemical weapons production in Hit, Iraq, along with an ISIS headquarters. The strike included multiple targets, destroying the headquarters and nine weapons storage buildings in Anbar province, coalition spokesman Army Col. Steve Warren said Monday. “We’re not completely in a place where we can disclose everything, but there was some chemical infrastructure associated with that Hit strike we did on the 17th,” Warren said. “We believe it was very effective.” The airstrikes were conducted in advance of an Iraqi push to retake the village. ISIS has repeatedly been linked to chemical weapon use. A November report by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons determined that ISIS had used sulfur mustard on a Syrian village.
For the last few years, through a little-known program called Kronos, the Space Force has been consolidating and modernizing its suite of legacy systems that provide operators with intelligence tools and command-and-control capabilities in an increasingly contested space environment. Now, USSF is reaching out to commercial firms to prototype and…
