Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd may be confirmed as soon as this week to lead U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency. And when that happens, the U.S. military and intelligence community’s premier cyber offices will be led by a relative outsider—for better or worse.
The Federal Aviation Administration imposed extraordinary 10-day flight restrictions on airspace around El Paso late Feb. 10 following a communications breakdown with the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, after a laser-based counter-drone weapon was temporarily transferred to and used by DHS personnel, officials familiar with the matter said.
Dozens of military chiefs from the Western Hemisphere gathered on Feb. 11 in Washington for the first time to discuss a wide range of security issues that the Trump administration says are paramount to safeguarding the United States.
The Pentagon has told a second aircraft carrier strike group to prepare to deploy to the Middle East as the U.S. military readies for a potential attack on Iran, according to three U.S. officials.
American policymakers are telling European leaders not to expect major U.S. troop drawdowns anytime soon, according to seven U.S. and NATO officials, calming widespread fears across the continent’s capitals.
The Marines have tapped one of the companies competing to build the Air Force’s drone wingman to help develop its own Corps-specific Collaborative Combat Aircraft program, a key element of its new aviation plan.
The U.S. Navy wants long-range strike drones that can be launched from destroyers and other warships that lack large flight decks, according to a Defense Innovation Unit solicitation.
Air Force Global Strike Command says it is prepared to load more warheads onto Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles and restore nuclear weapons capability to the entire B-52 bomber fleet, if called upon to do so. Limitations had been imposed on both of those capabilities by the New START arms control treaty between the United States and Russia, which recently expired.
Basic training, which often involves getting yelled at and having your head shaved, is typically not a fun experience for military recruits. But now getting there is less of a hassle. The Defense Department is teaming up with the Transportation Security Administration, or TSA, to allow recruits headed to basic training who don’t have a REAL ID to get through airport security without having to pay a fee, a Pentagon official said.
Whirling flames as fast as possible inches from your face, while balancing on a moving board, may seem like a dubious past time, but for one Airman, it was just one achievement in a series of quirky broken world records.
