In the minutes after U.S. forces attacked a suspected drug smuggling boat near Trinidad, Adm. Frank M. Bradley, the commander overseeing the operation, faced a choice.
The Department of Defense should take steps to improve the way it tests and evaluates big-ticket programs if it wants to successfully get weapons into troops’ hands more quickly, according to a congressional watchdog.
The close relationship between U.S. President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has brought the countries closer to resolving issues that led to Turkey being kicked off the F-35 fighter jet program, the United States ambassador to Ankara said Dec. 10.
Jackson Barracks, headquarters of the Louisiana National Guard, will be the home of a new Air National Guard unit tasked with providing cyber capabilities, the Air Force announced Dec. 10.
Military households will receive an average 4.2 percent increase in their Basic Allowance for Housing in 2026. The Pentagon provided the annual update to Military.com. The new housing allowance rates will take effect Jan. 1.
F-35 Joint Strike Fighters from the Vermont Air National Guard‘s 158th Fighter Wing will be heading down to the Caribbean to take part in Operation Southern Spear, a U.S. official told The War Zone. The move would be the latest buildup of U.S. forces in the region for the mission to counter narcotics and pressure Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had a “constructive” conversation Dec. 11 with a U.S. team that included Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff, and President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner amid a renewed push to end the war with Russia.
The Space Force and the National Reconnaissance Office are working to craft an acquisition strategy based on multiple contract awards for developing and fielding satellites that can track aircraft and drones, Air Force Secretary Troy Meink said Dec. 11.
Space Force Tech Sgt. Garry Springle said he would not be alive were it not for a smartwatch that the service issued him for an ongoing fitness study it’s conducting. Not long after starting the study, Springle noticed the smartwatch consistently told him he was falling short of the Space Force’s fitness standards. Specifically, the watch was saying he was not meeting his required intensity minutes—a measure of heartbeats during exercise.
