President Donald Trump and Senate Democrats said Jan. 29 an agreement has been reached to fund the federal government as a Jan. 30 midnight deadline for a partial shutdown approaches.
President Donald Trump is weighing a major new strike on Iran after preliminary discussions between Washington and Tehran over limiting the country’s nuclear program and ballistic missile production failed to make progress, according to people familiar with the matter.
Kyrylo Horbenko represented the future of the Ukrainian army. Immediately after turning 18, he joined a program that fast-tracks military careers for Ukraine’s youngest recruits, hoping front-line experience would help him secure a spot at a military academy he hadn’t had the money to attend. ... Less than six months later, Horbenko was dead. Thrown into combat on the most dangerous part of the front line, he was cut down by Russian artillery while en route to reinforce a Ukrainian position in Pokrovsk in October.
Defense contractor Lockheed Martin announced Jan. 29 it will quadruple its production of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense interceptors, which are used to protect U.S. military bases and allies, over seven years under a new agreement with the Pentagon.
A recent Army request for information for up to 11 business jets to be used for the service’s High Altitude Detection and Exploitation System, or HADES, program is a “good signal,” according to a service spokesperson, but doesn’t necessarily mean the program’s “full steam ahead.”
An extremely secretive Air Force spy drone was used in the U.S. military’s operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro this month, Lockheed Martin’s CEO confirmed, marking a rare disclosure of the aircraft’s operations.
The U.S. Air Force is looking for contractors who can train foreign pilots receiving American military aid, according to an Air Force Request for Information. Training, which will be conducted at bases in the continental United States, includes instruction in a variety of combat and noncombat missions, and using numerous types of demilitarized or commercially derived aircraft, according to the RFI.
A delegation of top officials from U.S. Africa Command and the State Department traveled to Ethiopia this week to promote peace with their African counterparts and explore new opportunities for the nations to deepen their economic, diplomatic and military ties. AFRICOM's new commander Air Force Gen. Dagvin Anderson participated in the events, which involved the African Union—an influential intergovernmental organization consisting of the countries on that continent.
The Air Force has quietly eliminated all in-person and virtual hearings for Special Access Program appeals, replacing them with a paper-only process and making the service’s special access oversight office the final authority.
Pizza Cat is a fixture of many deployments and as a pest control specialist, her friendly presence helps boost the morale of all she meets in the U.S. Central Command Area of Responsibility.
