People with congestive heart failure, undergoing treatment for schizophrenia, or who have a history of paraphilic disorders will no longer be eligible for a medical waiver to serve in the military, according to new rules issued by the Pentagon on July 22.
In his first speech as program manager for the Trump administration’s Golden Dome project, Gen. Michael Guetlein said he’s moving quickly to build an empowered, expert team to start identifying and integrating technology for an advanced homeland missile defense architecture.
It’s a boat! It’s a plane! It’s an electric vehicle! It’s…all three? And it could be used in military missions. Electric boat-plane maker REGENT Craft is setting its sights on aiding military operations from logistics to medical evacuations. The Rhode Island-based company recently launched its defense business, offering its electric-run Viceroy seaglider to reach speeds of up to 50 mph.
A bipartisan pair of lawmakers want the Pentagon to comprehensively assess security risks from foreign powers and other threats that could disrupt military and civilian applications of the Global Positioning System and associated services that the U.S. and its allies rely on.
The Air Force awarded defense tech company Booz Allen Hamilton a $315 million contract to develop the second prototype of the service’s battle management kit—the Tactical Operations Center-Light (TOC-L)—in partnership with defense prime L3Harris.
As of July 21, the Air Force had not yet responded to public questions about the four-star command status of Air Force Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, expressed in a letter sent earlier this month by Ohio’s senators and U.S. Rep. Mike Turner, and in an earlier letter Turner quietly sent last month.
U.S. Air Force’s Global Strike Command has ordered an indefinite “pause” in the use of M18 pistols following a recent fatal incident at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming. This comes just two weeks after the disclosure of an FBI report that added to long-standing concerns about the ability of Sig Sauer P320-series pistols, a family that includes the M18, to fire without their triggers being pulled.
The crew of a B-52H Stratofortress that had a near-miss with a civilian airliner near Minot International Airport July 18 told air traffic control they were nearby, but were not informed a passenger jet was in the area, the Air Force said.
The U.S. agency responsible for maintaining and designing the nation’s cache of nuclear weapons was among those breached by a hack of Microsoft Corp.’s SharePoint document management software, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
A British F-35B fighter jet that was stranded at an airport in southern India for more than a month over mechanical issues, becoming a local celebrity in the process, is finally making its way home.
